James C. Wheat, Jr. Professor of Business Administration Brandt R. Allen teaches courses in accounting, information systems, and general management. He is the author of 30 published articles and sixteen books. His current research interests include accounting fraud, vendor incentives, how companies formulate and implement information systems strategy, and the impact of emerging technology on corporate transformation.
Before joining the Darden faculty in 1970, Allen was a professor at the Harvard Business School and before that, a research engineer with The Boeing Company. He has been a guest lecturer at IMD in Lusanne, Switzerland; the London Business School, the Melbourne Business School; the University of Capetown Business School and INALDE in Bogotá Colombia, among others. He has served as director or trustee for several organizations including the Data Switch Corporation, St. Anne’s-Belfield School, and the Edwin Gould Foundation for Children. He has served as a consultant to AOL, British Petroleum, Cargill, Citibank, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Lloyds of London, MCI, PWC, State Farm Insurance, Unilever, and UTC. From 2002-2008 he chaired the CIO Council of the Conference Board. He was Associate Dean, Executive Education, for fourteen years at Darden.