Wickham Skinner

Skinner worked for Honeywell for a decade.^[5]

Skinner became a professor at his alma mater, the Harvard Business School.^[4] He served as its Director of International Activities from 1967 to 1970.^[5] In 1974, he was appointed to the James E. Robinson chair in Business Administration.^[4] He was Associate Dean from 1974 to 1977.^[5] One of the students he mentored was William J. Abernathy.^[6]

Skinner was a director and the vice president of the Ocean Energy Institute.^[5] He was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent in 2002.^[5] He was a Fellow of Academy of Management.^[5]

• Impact of New Technology: People and Organizations in Manufacturing and Allied Industries (with Arup K. Chakraborty, Elsevier Science, 1982).
• Manufacturing: The Formidable Competitive Weapon (New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1985).

• Manufacturing—Missing Link in Corporate Strategy (Harvard Business Review, May 1969): in this article he addresses a concern that companies' senior executives are out of touch with manufacturing as an activity and value earner, while industrial and computing engineers lack knowledge of corporate strategy.^[7]
• The Productivity Paradox (Harvard Business Review, July 1986).