Babson Magazine

Fall 2016

News, Notes + Nods

Undergraduate

Eric Johnson, P’08, was interviewed for a May 21 article, “Growing Up, It Was Clear Eric Johnson Had Some Big Shoes to Fill,” on DemocratandChronicle.com. A Babson trustee and 2016 Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame inductee, he first worked for his father, who founded Johnson Hair Products. Eric, who eventually became CEO of his father’s company, left to purchase Baldwin Ice Cream in 1992 and Richardson Foods in 1997, from which he created Baldwin Richardson Foods.