Barbara Bird

Barbara Jean Bird is an organizational behavior and entrepreneurship academic. She is a professor emerita of management at the Kogod School of Business at American University.

Life Bird was born to Jean and Jim. Her 1972 thesis was titled Differences in achievement motivation in women: the sex-role orientation of the situation. Bird completed a Ph.D. in business administration at the University of Southern California. Her 1983 dissertation was titled Intentional maps of entrepreneurs. They were the second generation of scholars, following Donald L. Sexton, Karl H. Vesper, and Jeffry Timmons who had initiated the entrepreneurship interest group of the Academy of Management in the 1970s. The researched the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurial activities. She joined the faculty at Kogod School of Business at American University in 1998. In 2012, she was promoted to full professor chair of its department of management.

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