James Brian Quinn

Updated at: May 21, 2007, 2:20 a.m.

James Brian Quinn, Professor of Management, Emeritus, Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth, is the top authority capable of the combined knowledge in the fields of strategic planning, the management of technological change, entrepreneurial innovation, and the impact of technology in the service sector. His newest book, Innovation Explosion: Using Intellect and Software to Revolutionize Growth Strategies, is an advanced statement of the interactions among knowledge management, innovation, and growth strategies.

Professor Quinn is a well-known lecturer and consultant to numerous leading U.S. and foreign corporations, the U.S. and foreign governments, and small enterprises. He has published extensively on both corporate and national policy issues involving strategic planning, research and development management, management of entrepreneurial organizations, and the impact of technology in services. No one else has thrice received the McKinsey Prize given annually for the most outstanding management articles to appear in Harvard Business Review, and thrice received awards for best article in U.S. Academy of Management journals (1992, 1994, and 1997). His book, Intelligent Enterprise, won both the American Publishers Association Award as Book of the Year in Business and Scholarship and the American Academy of Management's Book of the Year Award for Outstanding Contribution to Advancing Management Knowledge.

Professor Quinn has published a series of books and articles dealing with the impact of technology in services. He served as Chairman of National Academy of Engineering committees on The Productivity of Information Technology in Services, Technology in the Services Sector, and Environmental Impacts of Services. Books from these projects include Technology in Services: Policies for Growth, Trade and Employment; Managing Innovation: Cases from the Services Sector; and Information Technology in the Service Economy.

In his more than 30 years at Tuck, he has taught courses in business policy, technology and policy, and entrepreneurship. He created STRAT, TYCOON, and Global Tycoon, all large scale computerized strategy simulations now used in executive as well as M.B.A. programs. In 1989, the Academy of Management awarded him its highly prized Outstanding Educator award, recognizing his lifetime contributions to the field of business policy and his ability and dedication as a teacher.

Quinn has had extensive international academic and lecturing assignments at the Centre d'Etudes Industrielles, Monash University, the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia, Dalien University, and the International University of Japan, where he served as Academic Dean for the newly established International Management M.B.A. program. He has been a member of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development for the National Academy of Sciences and AID, and served on NAS teams on economic and S&T planning, technology transfer, and education for science and technology in Colombia, Peru, Nepal, USSR, and the People's Republic of China.


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