Eric Abrahamson is the Hughie E. Mills Professor of Business Management at Columbia Business School. After teaching at New York University, Abrahamson joined the Columbia Business School faculty where he teaches courses on leadership, strategic management, managing organizations, and on the use of power and influence in organizations to achieve wide scale, successful, and lasting organizational change. 

He has taught at the London Business School in the UK, and was also a visiting professor at INSEAD in France.

Abrahamson is an active consultant and instructor in corporate executive education programs around the world and is internationally recognized for his research and teaching of innovative techniques for strategic planning and execution. He is the author of the book Change Without Pain published by the Harvard Business School Press, His most recent book A Perfect Mess, 2007, has been widely publicized and translated into twenty-three languages.

He is internationally recognized for his research on innovation diffusion generally, and on fashions in management techniques, more particularly. His work has won two of the most prestigious awards in the management area, the award for the best article published in the Academy of Management Journal (1995) and two Best Paper Awards of the Academy of Management Organization and Management Theory Division (1990; 1997). He has published numerous articles and book chapters that have appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Administrative Science Quarterly, Advances in Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, the Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Organization Science. He holds degrees from New York University (Ph.D. and M.Ph. Beta Gamma Sigma).