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Robert J. Kreitner and Margaret A. Sova - Inducted in 2002
Following four years in the U.S. Coast Guard, Robert Kreitner attended UNO on a football scholarship and earned undergraduate and master's degrees in business in 1972 and 1973. In 1974, he earned a Ph.D. in business from UNL. Margaret Sova earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at UNO in 1972 and 1973. The couple married in 1973.
Kreitner taught management at UNO, UNL, Western Illinois University, Arizona State University, and the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). After earning an MBA from Arizona State, Sova joined Intel Corp., where she has worked in a wide range of human resource product and project management positions for the past 19 years.
Kreitner is an Emeritus Professor of Management at Arizona State and a member of the College of Business Faculty Hall of Fame. He presently devotes his time to revising his bestselling management and organizational behavior textbooks. Sova's passion for adventure travel has taken her around the world from Mt. Kilimanjaro to Macchu Pichu in the Peruvian Andes.
The couple has established the Robert Kreitner Scholar Athlete & Margaret A. Sova Scholarship Fund, which supports student-athletes in the UNO College of Business Administration and College of Education.