John Callister joined the Cornell faculty in 1999. He holds a joint academic position as lecturer in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the School of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Cornell. He was an automotive engineer at General Motors from 1985 to 1993, and taught at Tri-State University from 1996 to 1998. He is also the co-founder and vice-president of Foxdale, Inc., an equipment leasing firm in the blown-film polymer industry. He is an active participant in Cornell's Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Program, and is a member of the American Society of Engineering Educators and the Academy of Management.
John Callister received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, his MBA from University of Chicago, his M.S. from Cornell University and his B.S. from University of Minnesota.
Well my experience is with the family business, which my father kind of restarted, that is correct. But essentially, without the advances in technology, we would have become a commodity product, which is to say we would be selling very cheap plastic bags rather than highly specialized advanced ones...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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