Youth, education and early career Bird was born in 1906 in
Covington, Kentucky. He had obtained his AB from the
University of Cincinnati in 1933 under
Ralph C. Davis, and his MBA from the
Ohio State University in 1938. In 1951 he also obtained his PhD at Ohio State with the thesis, entitled
The relation of stabilization within the business organization to guarantee of work or wages. After his graduation Bird had joined the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania faculty, where he was placement officer in 1937 and assistant director of Student Personnel by 1939. He also taught industrial management and industrial relations at
Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, and was industry and government consultant in human relations.
Further career and other work Around 1943 Bird founded his own firm, Dillard E. Bird Associates, consultants to management in Cincinnati, Ohio. and the SEE Foremanship Foundation in
Dayton, Ohio in 1951. One of his notable employees was the Carl Hartley Elliott, who was junior management consultant in 1947–48, and later professor and president of the
Trine University. Since 1942 Bird also taught personnel administration and labor relations at the evening college of the
University of Cincinnati.
Family Dillard Eugene Bird married Mary Carmichael Andrews, daughter of James H. M. Andrews and Esther McKinley (Bender) Andrews. They had a son, Dillard Eugene Bird Jr. (1941–2015). == Selected publications ==