Academics

Faculty & Staff

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Holly Hanson Johnston, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Accounting
  • Telephone: 617-287-7688
  • Office Location: M-5-406

Areas of Expertise

Managerial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Strategic Cost Management, Cost Driver, Capacity Analysis

Degrees

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
MS, Carnegie Mellon University
BA, Westminster College

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • “Using Model-based Expectations to Predict Voluntary Turnover” (with Eileen Bridges and Jeffrey K. Sager), International Journal of Research in Marketing, (24) (2007), pp. 65-76.
  • “Cost and Profit Driver Research” (with Rajiv D. Banker), in Christopher S. Chapman, Anthony G. Hopwood, and Michael D. Shields, Editors, Handbook of Management Accounting Research (Volume 2), Oxford: Elsevier (2007), pp. 531-556.

Additional Information

Courses Taught

Undergraduate and Graduate Managerial Accounting, Undergraduate and Graduate Cost Accounting and Management

Research Interests

Cost, Revenue and Profit Driver Analysis, Capacity Cost Analysis and Management, Performance Measurement, Productivity Analysis

Honors
  • Outstanding Accounting Professor, Beta Alpha Psi, Eta Chapter, Boston University, School of Management, 1998-1999
  • Co-winner, American Accounting Association, Management Accounting Section 1990-1991 Outstanding Dissertation Award (with Mahendra Gupta, Stanford University)
  • Doctoral Fellow, American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium, 1989