More Professors Who Bring the Outside World In

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Silver tsunami and how America is changing
“Every state in this great nation is in the midst of an unprecedented demographic transformation.”
James Johnson is leading the conversation on our nation’s demographic changes. Aging, color, regionalism and gender are a few of the trends he has identified that will have the potential to reshape our culture and much of our commerce.
Johnson is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.
Watch the video above to hear Johnson’s entertaining and enlightening work, and click hereOpens in new window to learn more about his background.