Bernard Morris Bass (June 11, 1925 – October 11, 2007) was an American scholar in the fields of leadership studies and organizational behavior.
[1] He was distinguished professor emeritus in the School of Management at Binghamton University, where he was also the founding director of the Center for Leadership Studies.
[2] He was also a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management.
[3] He is well known for his research on transformational leadership, which was inspired by the work of James MacGregor Burns.
[2][3] In 2018, the Center for Leadership Studies that Bass helped to establish in 1987 was renamed in honor of him and his wife, Ruth.