Faculty and Staff
James H. Johnson
Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank
Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management, Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3440
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3440
919-962-2214, Jim_Johnson@unc.edu
James H. Johnson, Jr. is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds degrees from North Carolina Central University (B.S., 1975), the University of Wisconsin at Madison (MS, 1977), and Michigan State University (PhD, 1980).
Selected by Fast Company magazine (September 2000) as one of the "17 … brightest thinkers and doers in the new world of work," Jim’s current research and consulting activities focus on the workforce and workplace implications of post-1990 demographic changes in the U.S; and on how to create highly competitive and sustainable business enterprises and communities in the current era of economic uncertainty and global insecurity. His research on these and related topics has been widely cited in a number of national media outlets, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, Newsweek, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and Business Week. He has also appeared on a number of national television shows, including The Today Show on NBC, CNN Headline News, the CBS Evening News, ABC Nightly News, Sunday Morning on CBS, Inside Politics on CNN, and This Week in Review on NBC.
Prior to joining the UNC-CH faculty, Jim was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he spent the first twelve years of his professional career.
Areas of Expertise
- Urban, social geography of the inner city
- Spatial and business demography of ethnic minority
- Urban Poverty and Public Policy
- Entreprenuership and Local Economic Development
- Research Design
- Survey Methods
- Multivariate Statistical Analyses
- Diversity