The Marquette online business faculty

Adjunct Instructor, Accounting and Business Day 1

M.S., Business Administration, Accounting, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, 1976
B.B.A., Business Administration, Accounting, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, 1972

Michael Browne joined Marquette University in 2004 on a part time basis. His prior experience includes successfully completing hundreds of engagements throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Latin America. He has served as chief financial officer for a manufacturing company and was partner In charge of consulting for one of the largest CPA and consulting firms in the United States. His entrepreneurial experience includes founding an accounting and consulting firm and growing it to a top 15 ranking in the Milwaukee marketplace. He has assisted clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies.

Mr. Browne’s current areas of interest are costing and performance management, lean continuous improvement, strategic and profit planning, financial planning and analysis, budgetary control, mergers and acquisitions, business valuations, and exit strategy planning. He has taught in both the undergraduate and graduate programs including courses in advanced accounting, managerial accounting, accounting for Managerial decisions and executing strategy using the balanced scorecard.

Assistant Professor of Management

Ph.D., Educational Psychology, Marquette University, 2001
MBA, Marquette University, 1993
B.S., Nursing, Alverno College, 1986

Dr. Jay Caulfield joined the Department of Management in 2014, previously serving as academic administrator and faculty member for Marquette’s graduate leadership studies and public service programs for 10 years. Prior to changing career paths in 2004, she worked in health care administration for over 20 years, where she served in various administrative roles, including president and CEO, vice president, and board chair for a state health care association. She teaches leadership and ethics, organizational behavior, negotiation, and leadership decision-making. She is a recognized expert in the field of blended teaching and learning, having won recognition for teaching, research and consulting in this area.

Read Leadership as an Art: A Q&A With Dr. Jay L. Caulfield.

Instructor of Practice, Finance

Instructor of Practice, Supply Chain Management

M.S., Management of Technology, University of Miami, Coral Gables
B.S., Business Administration, Northwood University
A.S., Biomedical Engineering, Johnson University

John Golden joined Marquette University in 2018 as an instructor of business and supply chain, teaching courses in innovation and creativity, business essentials, and operations and supply chain management. He holds an M.S. from the University of Miami and a B.S. from Northwood University. He also has experience teaching a variety of supply chain courses, including additive manufacturing, industry 4.0 and transportation.

John has over 30 years of medical device and aerospace experience. He has held positions in product management and service marketing with Marquette Electronics, Inc. and has held several operations positions including sourcing leader, supply chain leader and productivity project manager with General Electric Healthcare. Prior to retiring from the corporate world in 2015, John was a service assurance manager at B/E Aerospace and IT project leader with Genpact. John is Six Sigma certified and experienced in implementing lean manufacturing systems.

Assistant Professor of Management

Ph.D., Strategic Management, Michigan State University, 2012
MBA, University of Tulsa, 2006
B.A, International Business, University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria, 2003

Dr. Kalin Kolev joined the management department at Marquette University in 2014. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Michigan State University, his MBA from The University of Tulsa, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Dr. Kolev’s research focuses on strategic decision making and risk taking under uncertainty. In particular, he examines the antecedents and consequences of major restructuring activities, such as mergers and acquisitions, diversification, and divestitures. Furthermore, Dr. Kolev studies how the complex relationships between firm executives and boards of directors shape executive compensation, the risk profile of the firm and organizational performance. Kalin’s research has been published in a number of top-tier journals and book chapters, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning and Strategic Organization.

Adjunct Instructor, Economics

Laurna Prantil joined Marquette as full-time adjunct instructor in 2017. Prior to Marquette she was an economist at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Washington, D.C. Federally Funded Research and Development Center for the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. She directed a research program which supported the Defense Information Systems Agency and other Federal Government agencies during the U.S. telecommunications deregulation and the deployment of the internet. Her economic work spans topics in defense economics, telecommunications economics, economics of regulated (and deregulated) industries, transfer pricing, and operational efficiency. She was active with the Center for Research of Regulated Industries, the National Information Infrastructure Testbed Consortium and MILCOM organizations. Ms. Prantil is a consultant and grant writer for several local nonprofit organizations.

In addition to her career, Laurna is blessed with a wonderful husband, two teenagers and a dog. She loves to travel, hike, garden and volunteer in the community.

Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Management

Karen took on the role of Assistant Dean in early 2022. Previously, Karen served as the Business Career Center Director for the College of Business Administration. In this role, she oversees the College of Business Administration’s formal career and professional development programs including Business Career Center operations, the LEAD course sequence and career-related programs that connect students, employers and alumni including the Mentor Program and Office Visit Days. Karen collaborates with career-related offices across the Marquette University community and oversees Business Career Center Employer Advisory Board.

Each fall and spring semester, Karen teaches two sections of the LEAD 2000 career development course. Within the Business Career Center, she meets with students and alumni to discuss career decision making, develop internship and job search strategies, and support job seekers as they develop resumes, cover letters and interview skills. Karen supports employer relations in the areas of Accounting and International Business and manages internship data collection for the College. Prior to serving as Career Development Director, Karen was an Assistant Director in the Business Career Center (2010-2013) and a Faculty Advisor for the Business Career Center and Office of International Business Studies (2013-2015).

Prior to working in the College of Business Administration, Karen worked as a career counselor at Cardinal Stritch University, serving traditionally-aged college students, adult learners and alumni. Karen received her Master of Educational Leadership with emphasis in College Student Personnel from Marquette University. While pursuing this degree, she worked as a graduate assistant in the Marquette University Career Services Center.

Assistant Professor of Practice

MBA, Marquette University, 2012
J.D., Marquette University Law School, 1983
B.A. in Economics and History, Marquette University, 1980

Douglas O. Smith has been a practicing business lawyer for more than 35 years. From 2007 to 2015 he served as associate general counsel at Marquette University. Previously, Professor Smith was a captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate’s Corps and was with a law firm in Dallas, in both cases practicing government contracts law. After becoming group counsel at Johnson Controls in 1990, Professor Smith has served 25 years in a variety of in-house legal roles, including at the Medical College of Wisconsin, providing a wide variety of business-related legal services.

Professor Smith currently teaches BULA 3001, Legal Environment of Business; MBA 6200, Enterprise Risk Management; BULA 4001, Business Law; and BUAD 6931 and EXBU 6931, Business Law. He also serves in the Marquette University Law School as an adjunct professor of law. He previously taught economics and law, organizational behavior, and strategic management in the College of Business Administration. Professor Smith also served for five years as president of the Zeta of Wisconsin Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest honorary academic fraternity society in the United States.

Associate Professor of Management


Ph. D., Decision Sciences, Washington State University, 1992
MBA, Washington State University, 1985
M.S., Washington State University, 1983
B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 1979

Dr. Bharat Srivastava is an associate professor of operations and supply chain management at Marquette University. He is also the co-director of the M.S. in Engineering Management program. He teaches courses in operations management, supply chain management, manufacturing management, and decision modeling and analysis. His research has been published in journals such as Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Control, Journal of Operational Research Society, Discrete Applied Mathematics, International Journal of Production Economics, and Business Horizons.