Allan Bird, Ph.D.

Allan Bird, Ph.D., is the Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business at Northeastern University. His Ph.D. (1988) is in Organization Studies from the University of Oregon. He received his his M.A. (1983) in Comparative Culture and International Management from Sophia University in Tokyo. Allan’s research activities focus on several different areas relevant to managing in a global environment: Japanese top management team, career, and compensation issues; expatriate management; global leadership; and HRM in Japanese overseas affiliates. His work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of International Business Studies and numerous other academic and practitioner journals.

Allan is also the author of a book on Japanese boards of directors, Executive no Kenkyu (in Japanese). Other books include Japanese Multinationals Abroad: Individual and Organizational Learning (Oxford University Press, 1999) and The Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management (Routledge, 2002). He published, with Roger Dunbar and Tom Mullen, Bridging Cultures, a CD-ROM and workbook, for expatriates and their families. Bridging Cultures won an International Gold Medal for Interactive Educational Software at the 1998 New York Film Festival. Allan has served as a consultant to Japanese and American companies as well as to the Japanese government and several trade organizations. His advice and commentary are also sought after by the media, as reflected in his appearances on business-related broadcasts at CNN, FNN, and CNBC, as well as regional television and radio in the U.S. and Japan. His comments have appeared in Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and various regional newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News in the United States and national dailies in Japan such as the Mainichi Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, and Japan Times.