Quinn was a longtime professor at the Tuck School of Business and a proponent of knowledge management.
[citation needed] He attended Yale University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering in 1949.
Quinn then obtained a master's degree in business administration from Harvard and a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University.
[1] In 1957, Quinn became a professor at the Tuck School of Business Administration, where he worked until his retirement in 1993.
[1] Quinn worked with the United States Commerce Department during the Chinese economic reform period in 1979, and later on served as a chair on the Clinton Administration's Academic Committee for Policy Review on Innovation and Productivity.