Robert J. Kreitner - Inducted in 2003
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Bob Kreitner was born in Buffalo, New York. After a four-year enlistment in the U.S. Coast Guard, including service in Antarctica aboard the icebreaker Eastwind, he attended UNO on a football scholarship.
He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from UNO in 1970 and 1971, and a Ph.D. in business from UNL in 1974.
He has taught at UNO, UNL, Western Illinois University, Thunderbird and Arizona State University, as well as institutions around the world.
After a 26-year career at ASU, he was named Emeritus Professor of Management and a member of the W.P. Carey School of Business Faculty Hall of Fame.
He is the author or co-author of six college textbooks; his management and organizational behavior books are leaders in their field and have been translated into Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
He is a Habitat for Humanity volunteer. Kreitner and his wife, Margaret, an Omaha native and holder of two UNO degrees, live in Phoenix.
They have established a UNO scholarship fund to express their deep gratitude to their UNO professors and the state of Nebraska for helping them achieve their dreams.