Fred Kiesner, Ph.D.


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Fred Kiesner
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Home Address
1112 Snowbird Drive
Frazier Park, CA 93225
Ph: 661-245-1234,
FAX: 661-245-1263
E-mail: himself@frazmtn.com

Office Address
College of Business Administration
Loyola Marymount University
1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Phone: 310-338-4569,
FAX:310-338-3000
E-mail:fkiesner@lmu.edu


Education
Ph.D. (1984): Claremont Graduate School. Major: Management, Education. Minor: Marketing. Studied under Peter Drucker. Dissertation: Entrepreneurship Education & Training. 1984

MBA (1962): Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management. Major: Marketing

BSB (1961): School of Business, Univ. of Minnesota. Major: Business Administration.

Academic Experience

1974 - PRESENT: Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship, Chairholder, Conrad N. Hilton Chair of Entrepreneurship, College of Business, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

1990: Summer, Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

1989 - 1990: Visiting Zell Lurie Chair of Entrepreneurship, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1987 - 1988: Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

1984 - 1986: Visiting Professor. Taught entrepreneurship courses, half-time.

Business Experience
1962 – 1965: Pacific Bell Telephone. Commercial Manager, Fresno, Computer Accounting, S. F.

1965 – 1968: Product Manager, national garment manufacturing firm.

1968 – 1972: General Manager/Partner, import-export firm.

1972 – 1976: Editor, country weekly newspaper

1974 – 1989: Manager, consulting program, U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA), half-time.

Professional Experience
1992-1993: U.S. Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
National President; Fellow

1988-1989: Association for Private Enterprise Education (APEE)
National President,

International Council for Small Business (ICSB)
Board 1992-1993; Member since 1974

Small Business Institute Director's Assocation (SBIDA)
Regional President, Founding, Charter Member; Fellow

Journal of Provate Enterprise Education
Editorial Board

International Journal of Entrepreneurshi, Innovation & Change
Editorial Board

Asia Pacific Business Review
Editorial Board, Singapore

Journal of Enterprising Culture
Editorial Board, Singapore

Journal of Small Business Management
Editorial Board, West Virginia

Enterprise & Education
Editor, 1989-1993, Los Angeles

Honorary Professor
Sociology Department, State Pedagogical Institute, Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, Russia

Russian Academy of Sociology
Member, Moscow, Russia