Carole K. Barnett, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management and Director of the M.B..A. Program

University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business and Economics

B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., University of Michigan

Dr. Barnett teaches, conducts research, and consults in the areas of organizational leadership and learning, change and transformation, design and development, and culture. She has worked with numerous senior executives and managers to develop their organizational capability for transformative, generative leadership and change. She has published academic and practitioner oriented journal articles as well as cases based on her research of Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Navistar International Corporation, GE Lighting, GE Capital, GE Medical Systems, GE Plastics, ValuJet Airlines, Polaris Industries, BAE Systems Inc. and others. She is currently conducting a longitudinal study of how General Electric’s Global R&D Centers are executing their organic growth strategies.

Her central research interest is learning as a change process – in and across individuals, groups, organizations, and industries. She has studied the complex relationships between individual and organizational learning through the dynamics of leadership, small groups, and teams as well as through large scale organizational adaptation and transformation. Her research emphasizes organizational culture as an artifact as well as a mechanism of learning, and she has studied change occurring through mergers and acquisitions, crisis and failure, technology development and commercialization, quality improvement, and safety systems in organizations.

Professor Barnett teaches graduate- and undergraduate-level business courses at UNH. In addition, she designed and since October 2001 has directed British Aerospace & Electronics (BAE) Systems Inc.’s leadership “Executive Institute” for over 800 of its senior executives throughout North America.

Dr. Barnett has received numerous awards for teaching excellence including: the University of New Hampshire’s highest recognition, the 2004-05 Jean Brierley Award; the Whittemore School’s MBA Classes of 1999, 2003, and 2008 Outstanding Teacher Award; the Whittemore School’s Teaching Excellence Award for 1999; and from 2001-2003 she held the University’s 3-year Class of 1938 Professorship in recognition of her exceptional teaching.

She is a member of a number of professional societies including the Academy of Management, the Association for Psychological Science, the International Society for the Psychodynamic Study of Organizations, and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. She served from 2001-2003 as Treasurer and Secretary of the Academy of Management’s “Management, Spirituality, and Religion Interest Group.” She is a member of the editorial boards of Sage Publications’ UK journal, Management Learning, Emerald’s Leadership & Organization Development Journal, and Wiley’s Human Resource Management journal. She also serves as a reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Relations, Journal of Business & Economic Studies, Journal of Management Education, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Qualitative Sociology.

carole.barnett@unh.edu

University of New Hampshire

Whittemore School of Business & Economics

416 McConnell Hall - 15Academic Way

Durham, NH 03824 USA

603-862-3307