Profile

Barbara Bird

Associate Professor
Kogod: Management

  • Professor Bird’s research interests include entrepreneurial cognition and entrepreneurial behavior. She has research projects examining new venture liabilities of newness and strategic alliances. She authored Entrepreneurial Behavior and several scholarly journal articles in Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and Journal of Applied Psychology. She is past chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and currently serves as Historian. Her travels have taken her to EU, Brazil, Peru, China, Turkey and Syria.

  • Degrees

    B.A., psychology, Fresno State College; M.A., social psychology, University of Western Ontario; Ph.D., University of Southern California

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  • KSB - Management
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Teaching

  • Fall 2009

  • Spring 2010

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

Professor Barbara Bird's co-authored paper "The Practical Intelligence of High Potential Entrepreneurs: Antecedents and a Link with New Venture Growth," was awarded an IDEA Award: 2008 Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice Best Conceptual Paper by the Academy of Management.

AU Expert

Area of Expertise: Entrepreneurship (thinking styles, behavior, competencies, management, human resources, business plans); leadership; women entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial intuition and expertise, competition cognitions, organizational behavior; creativity in organizations

Additional Information: Barbara J. Bird serves as associate editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and is engaged in the entrepreneurial cognition group of the Academy of Management. She has facilitated strategic planning for the National Law Library of the Library of Congress and served as business specialist (reviewing business plans) for the Advanced Technology Program of NIST the National Institute of Standards and Technology and on the Small Business Innovation Research for the National Science Foundation. Current work includes analysis of the NIST data collected and focuses on liabilities of new organizations and strategic alliance changes in these high-technology projects.

Media Relations
To request an interview please call AU Media Relations at 202-885-5950 or submit an interview request form.