Callan, John Gurney, 1875-1940.
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Callan, John Gurney, 1875-1940.
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Callan, John Gurney, 1875-1940.
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John Gurney Callan began his professional career working for the Edison Illuminating Company, 1896-1897, and joined General Electric in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1897, where he was in charge of the Lynn steam turbines. In 1909, he joined Arthur D. Little as a mechanical and electrical engineer where he helped organize the Research Department of General Motors. In 1915, Callan was appointed Professor of Steam and Gas Engineering at the University of Wisconsin; and in 1919 he became the first faculty member appointed to the Harvard Business School by Dean Wallace Brett Donham where he taught until 1940.
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Business education
Cotton manufacture
Industrial management
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Massachusetts--New Bedford
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