Faculty
Lind W. Coop, DBA
Chair, Department of Management
Professor of Strategic Management
Phone: (714) 879-3901 x2264
Email: lwcoop@hiu.edu
Office: Terrace Suites – 3rd. floor, south wing
EDUCATION:
- DBA, Strategic Management, United States International University
- MBA, Organizational Behavior, National University
- BBA, General Management, National University
- AA, Industrial Engineering, Cerritos College
COURSES:
- Strategic Management
- Economics
- Ethics
- Not-For-Profit Boards and Associated Issues
- Outstanding Professor, University Wide, National University
- Outstanding Professor, School of Management, National University
- Academy of Management
- Society of Strategic Management
ACADEMIC INTERESTS:
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Leadership Ethics Decision-Making
- Decision Structure and Anatomy
- Not-For-Profit Management
- Pastoral Decision-Making
- Economic Forces in Public Policy
- Micro Economic Processes in Developing Nations
RESEARCH (current):
- Relationship Between Strategic Success, Ethics, and Decision Anatomy.
- Relationship Between Decision-Making Capabilities and Religious Affiliation.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
- CMA Annual Conference: Decision-Making and the Not-For-Profit Executive.
- Earlham School of Religion: Declining Quality of Volunteer Board Members.
- California State University, San Marcos: Relationship Between Quality Decision-Making and Strategic Success in Not-For-Profit Organizations.
- Azusa Pacific University: Pitfalls of Formal Decision-Making Systems.
Lind has made dozens of academic and business-based presentations to for-profit, not-for-profit, and public-side groups, as well as having conducted many strategic planning seminars for churches and community service not-for-profit organizations.
Lind has also served as president and/or chief executive of financial institutions and manufacturing/aerospace industry companies.
CHURCH and COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Evangelical Friends Church, Southwest: Served as Board Chair and Presiding Officer.
Board Member: Quaker Meadow Camp, California Friends Homes, Boys and Girls Club, YMCA, Intercommunity Child Guidance Center, Samaritan Counseling Center, Lions Club, Whittier Museum Endowment, local Friends Churches.
HOBBIES/INTERESTS:
Fishing, antique cars, cooking, and beating weaker opponents at table tennis (Dr. Mutunga).
PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION/ FAVORITE SCRIPTURE:
My personal education philosophy is to practice “relationship education” where the teacher and student learn from each other, and that:
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Luke 22:26 ….the greatest one among you must be like the youngest, and the leader must be like a servant.