Professor H. Thomas Johnson

H. Thomas Johnson, Professor of Business Administration at Portland State University, was named one of the 200 leading management thinkers living today in a survey published by Harvard Business School Press in 2003. In 1996 Johnson's colleagues at Portland State selected him for the Branford Price Millar Award for Faculty Excellence, the university's highest honor for research, service and teaching. He has an undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard, an MBA from Rutgers, and a PhD in economic history from the University of Wisconsin.

Johnson is an internationally-noted authority on economic history, management accounting, and quality management. Author of seven books and over 100 articles and reviews on these subjects, His co-authored book Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People, received the 2001 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research. His best-selling Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting, co-authored with Robert S. Kaplan, was named by Harvard Business Review in 1997 as one of the most influential management books published in the twentieth century. His controversial and internationally-acclaimed sequel to that book was Relevance Regained: From Top-Down Control to Bottom-Up Empowerment. His books have appeared in eight languages.

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