Michael Johnson-Cramer is the Dean of the School of Leadership and Management at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. He supervises academic offerings in professional fields such as leadership, nautical science, and law, including the Academy’s AACSB-accredited degree program in management.

Dr. Johnson-Cramer has spent nearly three decades in higher education, as a teacher-scholar and academic leader. Prior to his appointment at the Coast Guard Academy, he was dean of Ithaca College School of Business, where he expanded hands-on programming across the school’s majors, oversaw a successful AACSB reaccreditation, and built out new programs in entrepreneurship, leadership, and the creative industries. He has also served in administrative roles at Bentley University, where he helped to reshape the institution’s graduate portfolio, and at Bucknell University, where he led the effort to create the Freeman College of Management.

In the classroom, Michael has taught a range of courses on strategic management, global

strategy, organization theory, and the relationships between business, government, and society. He has held faculty appointments at Bentley University, Bucknell University, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Boston University. He remains in close touch with former students, often helping them think through the strategic challenges they face as leaders.

His scholarly work centers on stakeholder theory and the dynamics of conflict between organizations and the publics they affect. His published work has appeared in Strategic Organization, Organization Studies, California Management Review, the Journal of Business

Ethics, and other journals and edited volumes. He has served as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility at the University of Nottingham, and as associate editor and editorial review board member at Business & Society.

Michael received his doctorate from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, an MBA from the Solvay School of Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles), and his undergraduate degree in government from Harvard University. He served on the board of directors of the State Theatre of Ithaca and is a longtime member of the advisory board for the Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures at Dartmouth College.