Kenneth Kimura

Dr. Kenneth Kimura serves as an Assistant Professor of Management, Business, and Public Policy and Director of Corporate Programs at APU. He teaches MBA courses in organizational behavior, organizational development, managerial economics, business ethics, and quality management at APU, and is a visiting lecturer at Harvard's Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians (LIAL) where he teaches about library leadership and the future of higher education.

His educational qualifications are:

• Doctor of Education (EdD) from Harvard University
• Master of Education (EdM) in Higher Education from Harvard University
• Master of Arts in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies in Higher Education from Stanford University
• Bachelor of Arts (Honors) from Swarthmore College

Dr. Kimura's research investigates the convergence of nonprofit and for-profit organizational behavior in higher education, with a focus on executive education. His three research streams cover: (1) the historical development of executive education in management schools and its contribution to organizational strategy theory; (2) cultural entrepreneurship of executive education in response to neoliberalism and higher education bureaucracy; and (3) the role of executive education in indigenous institutional fields, particularly Alaska Native Corporations, in constructing knowledge about public goods such as community healthcare and sovereign wealth funds.

A fourth generation Alaskan and former management consultant at Deloitte, Dr. Kimura maintains deep community roots as a founding family member of Anchorage and engages in outdoor activities including cross country running and basketball.