Professor
Thad Barnowe teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Global
Business; Organizational Design, Leadership and Change; and Human
Resource Management. He has a baccalaureate degree from the University
of San Francisco and received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.
Prior to coming to PLU in 1977, he taught a number of the 2000
business majors at the University of British Columbia. Since arriving
at PLU, he has extended his international experience by receiving three
year-long Fulbright grants: to Zhongshan University (Guangzhou, China),
Oslo Business School (Oslo, Norway), and Poznań School of Management
and Banking (Poznań, Poland).
He has been a Presidential Fellow at
the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird),
and has directed a Title VI-B Business and International Education
grant from U.S. Department of Education, aimed at promoting U.S.-China
trade and international business education for students and faculty. He
has taken three groups of PLU students to China for study away
experiences.
Ongoing research interests include the study of managers' personal
value systems, and economic development and management reforms taking
place in China, Poland and the Baltic states. He has presented his
findings at conferences in Australia, Canada, Chile, Hong Kong, Italy,
Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA.
Professor Barnowe served as Interim Dean of PLU School of Business in
2003-04.
His community service includes
serving on the Board of Directors for World Trade Center Tacoma since
1996, and for more than ten years as an officer and board member for
the South Puget Sound chapter of the Northwest Human Resource
Management Association/Society for Human Resource Management.
He is an avid (though not frequent enough) hiker, backpacker, cross-country skier, and fly fisherman, and enjoys travel and outdoor activities throughout the Pacific Northwest—and beyond, where he has visited many European and Asian countries.