Dr. Kelly M. Kilcrease is an Associate Professor of Business with seventeen years of teaching experience on the collegiate level. Dr. Kilcrease has a constant desire to see students apply what they learn by using the classroom as a simulator to the real business world. He believes that it is not enough that students understand how a theory works, they must experience its ramifications and changes within the organization once it is applied.

Dr. Kilcrease earned his BA from the University of South Florida and an MBA from Tampa College. He earned his Ph.D. in Management with an emphasis in Productivity from The Union Institute and University. His published dissertation focused on the productive impact the microcomputer has on outside sales forces. Since then he has presented and published in a variety of business areas including business history, teaching effectiveness, tools for non-profit business, and the relationship between the liberal arts and management.

• Operations Management
• Students in Free Enterprise
• Introduction to Business
• Organizational Behavior
• Human Resource Management
• Training and Development

• American Management Association
• Business History Society
• Society of Human Resources
• Chairmen’s Club (through Manchester Chamber of Commerce)
• American Productivity and Quality Center

• Publications and Conference Presentations
• Kilcrease, K. (2011). Multi-Factor Assessment of Service Delivery in Business Incubators: Perspectives from Incubator Tenants. Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, 16 (2), 80-95.
• Kilcrease, K. (2011). A Lesson in Longevity: How J.E. Rhoads Survived for Over 300 Years and Became the Oldest U.S. Manufacturer. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 78 (2), 200-225.
• Kilcrease, Kelly (2011). Faculty Perceptions of Business Advisory Boards: The Challenge for Effective Communication. Journal of Education for Business, 86 (2), 78-83.
• Kilcrease, K. (in press). The Success and Failures of Daniel Webster, the Farmer. Historical New Hampshire. Expected, Fall, 2012.
• Kilcrease, Kelly (submitted). The Batavia Industrial Center: The Hatching of the World’s First Business Incubator. New York State History.
• (2010, March). Religion and Managerial Decision Making: How the Oldest Company in the United States Survived for Over 300 Years through the Implementation of Quaker Principles in Its Mission. Presentation at the Business History Conference Annual Meeting. Athens, Georgia.

• Ph.D., Management with an emphasis in Productivity, The Union Institute and University
• MBA, Tampa College
• BA, University of South Florida