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Holly Hanson Johnston, PhD
Assistant Professor of Accounting
617-287-7688
holly.johnston@umb.edu

 



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

Areas of Expertise
Managerial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Strategic Cost Management, Cost Driver and Capacity Analysis

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

Selected Publications
"Shifting Perspectives: Accounting, Visibility, and Management Action" (with C. J. McNair, Lidija Polutnik, Jason Augustyn, and Charles R. Thomas), Advances in Management Accounting, (11) (2003).

"Strategic Management Accounting" (with Rajiv D. Banker), in Hans-Ulrich Küpper and Alfred Wagenhofer, Handwörterbuch Unternehmens-rechnung und Controlling, Enzyklopädie der Betriebswirtschaftslehre (EdBWL) Band III, Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag Stuttgart, Germany, 2002, pages 1858-1867.

"An Empirical Study of the Business Value of the U.S. Airlines' Computerized Reservations Systems" (with Rajiv D. Banker), The Journal of Organizational Computing, Special Issue on Economics and Information Technology, 5(3) (September 1995), pp. 255-275.

"Evaluating the Impacts of Operating Strategies on Efficiency: An Application to the U.S. Airline Industry" (with Rajiv D. Banker), in Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology and Applications, A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, A. Lewin, and L. Seiford, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston MA, 1994; originally prepared for the Conference on New Uses of DEA in Management, University of Texas at Austin, September 1989.

"An Empirical Study of Cost Drivers in the U.S. Airline Industry" (with Rajiv D. Banker), The Accounting Review, 68(3) (July 1993), pp. 576-601.

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

 

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