JAMES HERBERT, Ph.D.
URBAN ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE
James L Herbert, Ph.D
. joined Kennesaw State University's Michael J. Coles School of Business as Associate Professor of Management effective January 1, 1994. Dr. Herbert directs the Urban Enterprise Initiative, a program designed to stimulate the creation and growth of urban family businesses, in the Family Enterprise Center. Dr. Herbert will also be an integral member of all family business related programming.
Dr. Herbert is author of the groundbreaking work, Black Male Entrepreneurs and Adult Development (Praeger, 1989), an in-depth study of the lives of successful Black business owners. Prior to joining Kennesaw's faculty, he was Associate Director of Admissions, Director of Program Development, and Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Yale's School of Organization and Management, where he pioneered programs in both minority family business and race relations. Also while at Yale, Dr. Herbert stimulated minority and Native American involvement in the University's School of Organization and Management and served as the chairman of Yale's Afro-American Cultural Center.
Dr. Herbert currently serves as vice president of the Family Firm Institute, an international association for professionals who work with and study family enterprise. He has been active with a variety of other business organizations and served as leader for the first meeting of the next generation leaders of the Black Enterprise Magazine 100 largest Black-owned businesses, sponsored by Black Enterprise Magazine.
Dr. Herbert was appointed on February 7, 1995 to a three-year term as a member of the National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board. Phil Lader, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, confirmed this appointment. Nine people from all over the country make up the advisory board, which provides SBA officials with counsel regarding small business development center programs.
Dr. Herbert has a long track record and commitment to public service as one of the first administrators in the Model Cities Program and Community Development Action Plan Agencies in the late 1960s. He was an educator and an administrator in the Waterbury, Connecticut public school system, and was involved in the early development of school lunch programs.
Dr. Herbert, a veteran of the Peace Corps' charter group, serving in Sri Lanka, earned his undergraduate degree from Fayetteville State University, and his Masters and Doctoral degrees from Yale University.
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