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 parttime professor on the MIT faculty and commuting between Boston and New York on a regular basis.