Area of Expertise: Operations Management, Supply Chain, Information Security
Education: MS, Pennsylvania State University; PhD, Stanford University

Professor Johnson specializes in operations management, particularly the impact of information technology on supply chain integration and information security and trust. He is an expert in the supply chain challenges faced by industries with short product life cycles such as toys, apparel, and computers.

Through grants from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation, Johnson researches how information security and trust effect supply chain relationships. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on information security and collaboration and published related articles in the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, and CIO Magazine. During the safety crisis faced by the U.S. toy industry manufacturing in China, Johnson was featured as an expert on supply chain “product genealogy” by the New York Times and the Nightly Business Report.

Johnson has consulted for diverse companies such as Sprint-Nextel, Lucent, Mattel, Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Pepsi, DHL, and Fleetguard. He previously worked for Hewlett-Packard and currently serves as Director of Tuck’s Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies.

Eric Johnson teaches in the Tuck Executive Program.