Alex Bolinger, Ph.D.

Alex Bolinger is the Interim Dean and ICCU Endowed Professor of Management at Idaho State University’s College of Business. He earned his PhD in Management at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and began his career outside of Philadelphia at Penn State Brandywine. Dr. Bolinger’s research focuses on groups and teams, entrepreneurship, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and opportunities for improving people’s experiences at work.

An advocate of collaborative, active approaches to learning, students in Dr. Bolinger’s classes have learned about teamwork by creating fundraisers for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, learned about collaborative creativity by writing seven books (as a class), and learned about strategy while bringing home two dozen trophies over the past ten years from the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition in Anaheim, California.