John Bacot Of MHIA To Retire There are people in the corrugated industry who witness its evolution. And then there are those who have lived it and helped interpret it. John Bacot is both. As he prepares
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Over time, Bacot gravitated toward work that blended systems thinking with human connection, from running a homemade snowball stand built by his engineer father to studying computer science and eventually joining IBM. It was at IBM, in the early 1980s, that he was first introduced to the corrugated industry, working directly with box plants and paper mills to help install one of the industry’s first integrated accounting and pricing systems. The same focus on systems, data, and economics lat- er extended beyond the industry itself. For more than 20 years, Bacot taught finance at Johns Hopkins University, an experience he considers one of the most meaningful chapters of his career. The connection was also personal:
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