William F. Pounds (1928–2023) was an American academic who served as the dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1966 to 1980 and later as a professor emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Pounds attended Carnegie Mellon University where he graduated with a degree in chemical engineering and later earned masters and PhD degrees from Tepper School of Business, studying under Herbert Simon.
[3] Prior to his academic career, Pounds worked in operations management at Eastman Kodak and Pittsburgh Plate Glass, where he was involved in supplying automobile paint to General Motors.
[3] After his tenure as dean, Pounds served as a senior advisor to the Rockefeller family from 1981 to 1991.
[3] He was a member of several non-profit boards, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and WGBH.