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Richard Ivey Building 3364
Retired, General Management & Strategy
W. Glenn Rowe is an emeritus and adjunct professor at the Ivey Business School. He served in the Canadian Navy for 22 years. In his final three years he served as the Commanding Officer of Minor War Ships that were used to train junior officers in ship-handling, navigation and seamanship. In 1990, he retired and became a full-time lecturer in the Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) at Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 1992, he began studying leadership within the context of strategic management at Texas A&M University, where he completed his PhD in 1996. He rejoined Memorial’s FBA in September 1995, where he taught strategic management and strategic leadership. He was an invited professor at Royal Roads University from 1998 to 2000. Glenn joined Ivey on July 1, 2001. He served as the faculty coordinator for the PhD program in general management (including strategy) from January 2002 to July 2009. From July 2009 to June 2012, he served as the Director of Ivey's Executive MBA Program. He currently serves as the General Management Area Group’s Coordinator. In January 2016, he was appointed as the Executive Director, Ivey Publishing where he oversees Ivey’s Case Publishing house and the Ivey Business Journal.
He has taught strategy and strategic leadership to undergraduate business students, MScs, MBAs and EMBAs. He taught a strategy doctoral seminar from 2003 to 2009. He currently teaches Business Unit Strategy and Corporate Level Strategy in Ivey’s MBA Program. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several academic journals and is active in the community. He has facilitated strategic-thinking sessions for several organizations including a couple of banks, a fish farming company, and Fishery Products International. He is the lead coauthor of the Cases in Leadership (4th Edition) case/textbook and a coauthor of the Strategic Analysis and Action (9th Edition) textbook. His research is published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Management Inquiry. He has written/co-authored 54 cases and is currently supervising the completion of several more. He teaches 80 case classes per year in Ivey’s MBA program. He has facilitated Case Teaching Workshops in the United States, Canada and Lebanon, and Case Writing Workshops in Canada, Qatar, and Mexico. His executive education teaching includes having taught on programs for provincial and federal government departments and for publicly funded organizations.