Eric J. Johnson
Eric J. Johnson is a professor of marketing at Columbia University where he is the inaugural holder of the Norman Eig Chair of Business. He is the Co-Director for the Center for Decision Sciences. Education Johnson received a B.A. in Human Communication from Rutgers University in 1976 and an M.S. and PhD in Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1978 and 1980 respectively. After completing his degree, he was a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University for one year. Career He began his professional career at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1981 as an Assistant Professor of Industrial Administration at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration. He was an Associate Professor there from 1984-1987. Between 1984 and 1985, he was a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management. From 1992 to 1999, he was a Professor of Marketing, Decision Science and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and the inaugural holder of the David W. Hauck Chair in Marketing. In 1999, he joined Columbia University as a Professor of Business. Johnson's research explores the interface between behavioral decision research and economics. He looks at the decisions made by consumers and managers, and their implications for public policy, markets and marketing.