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Meet the Dean

Dr. Thomas BillesbachDr. Thomas Billesbach

Dr. Thomas Billesbach served as chairman of Northwest’s Department of Marketing and Management for seven years prior to becoming dean of the Melvin and Valorie Booth College of Business and Professional Studies in 2004. 

As chair, he increased the number of majors from 424 to 750 in six years, developed and implemented a team based-evaluation system and implemented an on-line management major.

Billesbach came to Northwest in 1994 as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor in 2001. He has taught a variety of management courses including the capstone course for undergraduate business majors and the capstone course for the MBA program.

After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and a Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Billesbach became an assistant professor at UNO. Over the past 24 years, he has served as an advisor, consultant, trainer, and seminar leader for a wide variety of public and private companies. 

In the private sector, Billesbach has trained thousands of managers and professionals for such major corporations as DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Pillsbury, Solectron, Union Carbide, Union Pacific Railroad, Becton Dickinson, Westinghouse and Nashua Corp.

          The author of numerous studies and articles, Billesbach has published research in such periodicals as “Production Inventory Management Journal,” “International Journal of Operations and Production Management” and the “Journal of Business Entrepreneurship.” He has also served as a journal reviewer and conference referee.

Examples of professional service at Northwest include the Academic Appeals Committee, the Baldrige Category Council and the Student-Faculty Discipline Committee. A member of the statewide Business Development Program Advisory Board, Billesbach is an evaluator and mentor for the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, which is a national accrediting body for business schools.