George John

George John received a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an MBA from the University of Illinois. After earning a PhD in Marketing from Northwestern University, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin before moving to the University of Minnesota.

John is the General Mills-Gerot Chair in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His interests center around distribution channels and high tech marketing. Specifically, he is interested in the strategic and efficiency aspects of governance choices in these settings.

His academic honors include an American Marketing Association award for his PhD dissertation, and his selection as a "Highly Cited Researcher" in the Business/Economics category by Thomson Reuters Web of Science.