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American academic
James Brian Quinn
(1928 ? 28 August 2012) was an American academic and author. Quinn was a longtime professor at the
Tuck School of Business
and a proponent of
knowledge management
. He formulated the managerial concept of
intelligent enterprise
in 1992.
Biography
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Quinn was born in
Memphis, Tennessee
in 1928.
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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
.
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In 1957, Quinn became a professor at the Tuck School of Business Administration, where he worked until his retirement in 1993. In the intervening years, Quinn created Tuck's curriculum for business policy and
technology policy
courses. He also formulated and taught several classes related to entrepreneurship; in doing so, Quinn became a progenitor for such type of class in American universities. He also served as Tuck's William and Josephine Buchanan Professor of Management Emeritus.
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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.
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In his 1992 work
Intelligent Enterprise
, Quinn formulated the concept of
intelligent enterprise
, an approach to management that applies technology and service paradigms to the challenge of improving business performance.
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He was a three-time recipient of the
McKinsey Award
.
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Quinn died on 28 August 2012 at the age of 84.
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