Professor Thad Barnowe teaches graduate and
undergraduate courses in global business, organizational design, leadership,
and organizational change. He has a
baccalaureate degree from the University
of San Francisco, and received his
Ph.D. from the University
of Michigan. Ongoing scholarly interests include the study
of managers' personal value systems, economic development and management
reforms in China, Poland and the Baltic
states, and the relationship between organizational culture,
change, and knowledge management. He has
presented his research findings at conferences in Australia,
Canada, Chile, Hong Kong,
Italy, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore,
Taiwan, the UK, and the USA, and has published them in a
number of peer-reviewed journals.
He is the recipient of three
year-long Fulbright grants: to ZhongshanUniversity
in Guangzhou, China,
to OsloBusinessSchool in Norway,
and to Poznań School of Management and Banking in 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 numerous groups of PLU students to China for J-term
and semester-long study away experiences.
Professor Barnowe served as
Interim Dean of PLU School of Business in 2003-04. His community service includes more than ten
years on the Board of Directors for World Trade Center Tacoma (including
president), 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.
