 Abegglen served successively as professor and director of the Graduate School of Comparative Culture at Sophia University, chairperson of Asia Advisory Service K.K., and dean emeritus of Globis University in 2006.He taught "Management of Japanese Enterprises" at that school until his death from cancer on May 2, 2007.Abegglen's academic interests centered on Japanese enterprises and economic systems and their priority to western capitalism.