Adjunct Faculty

Dr. John Horn Adjunct Faculty Ph.D., Harvard University Phone: 202-662-1159 E-mail: johnhorn@umd.edu

John Horn works as a consultant in the strategy practice of a global management consulting firm in Washington, DC. He focuses on applying economic fundamentals to strategic business tools and frameworks for clients in multiple geographies and industries. His particular areas of focus have been applied game theory (e.g., wargaming) and behavioral economics (e.g., debiasing strategic decisions).

John has published on strategy in the Harvard Business Review, been a guest lecturer on strategy at the Helsinki School of Economics, presented at the Strategic Management Society Conference and been a featured presenter at the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference.

John’s previous work experience included assisting major U.S. financial institutions with fair lending compliance as a consultant with Ernst & Young LLP and working as an economic consultant with The Brattle Group, where he specialized in litigation support for economic expert testimony, including anti-trust and patent infringement cases. He also worked for a major U.S. electric utility in monitoring a pilot time-of-day rate program, which involved analyzing several hundred thousand customers on a monthly basis. John also assisted on three transportation industry reports: testimony on railroad merger guidelines filed before the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, an economic impact study of open skies agreements for the European Commission and a similar study for the Netherlands of the effects of open skies on Schiphol airport.

John has a PhD in economics from Harvard University, where he also received a Masters degree in economics. The major focus of his dissertation was the effect of import competition on U.S. labor union membership. He earned a Bachelors degree, majoring in economics, from the University of Michigan.