Faculty

MIT Sloan remembers faculty members who have recently passed and honors the significant contributions they made to their fields.

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James Utterback

(1941-2025) Professor, Emeritus

Professor, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, Utterback served with distinction across MIT. He joined the School of Engineering in 1979 as part of the MIT Center for Policy Alternatives, before eventually leading the MIT Industrial Liaison Program from 1983-1989. In 1996, he joined the MIT Sloan TIES faculty group, where he served for nearly 30 years. His teaching and mentorship spanned every level of the classroom from undergraduates to executives.

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David C. Schmittlein

(1955-2025) Former Dean

The John C Head III Dean from 2007 to 2024 and professor of marketing, Schmittlein was MIT Sloan's longest-serving dean and a visionary and transformational leader. He guided MIT Sloan through a financial crisis and a global pandemic and led the transformation of MIT Sloan into a management school uniquely positioned for the future and “the best version of its distinctive self."

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John D. C. Little

(1928-2024) Institute Professor, Emeritus

Professor of Management Science in the MIT Sloan School. Little had a distinguished career spanning seven decades, making fundamental contributions to queueing theory, traffic flow management, branch and bound optimization, decision support systems, operations research, and marketing science – fields he helped create.

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Edward Roberts

(1935-2024) Professor

The David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Roberts was a champion of entrepreneurship, and “MIT icon.”

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Heikki Rantakari

(1979-2023) Visiting Associate Professor, Applied Economics

As Associate Professor of economics and management at the University of Rochester and Visiting Associate Professor of applied economics at MIT Sloan, he left an enduring mark on the fields of applied microeconomic theory and organizational economics.

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William Pounds

William F. Pounds

(1928-2023) MIT Sloan Dean Emeritus

A Professor of Organization Studies and Dean Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Pounds was an expert in corporate governance and operations management who mentored a generation of MIT Sloan faculty members.

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Arnoldo Hax

(1936-2023) Professor Emeritus

The Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management Emeritus explored corporate strategy and was a co-creator of the Delta Model, an approach to customer bonding that is still in use today.

Edgar Schein

Edgar Schein

(1928-2023) Professor Emeritus

The Society of Sloan Fellows professor of Management Emeritus at MIT Sloan and a faculty member at MIT Sloan for more than 65 years, Schein was known for his groundbreaking holistic approach to organizational change.