William F. Pounds
Dean, Sloan School of Management 1966-1980
Professor of Management, emeritus
William Pounds is a professor of management emeritus and a former dean of MIT’s Sloan School of Management. During the turmoil over Vietnam in the late 1960s, he assumed the unenviable task of leading a review of MIT’s policies on two special research laboratories whose funding came in large part from the US Department of Defense. In addition to his roles at MIT-which spanned nearly 50 years-Professor Pounds served for 10 years as senior advisor to the Rockefeller family and as the top executive of a number of their entities, all while remaining as a part-time professor on the MIT faculty and commuting between Boston and New York on a regular basis.