William H. Swanson (born 1950) is the chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon Company. Before becoming chairman in January 2004, he was CEO and president of the company. Prior to that he was president of the company, responsible for Raytheon’s government and defense operations, including the four Strategic Business Areas of Missile Defense; Precision Engagement; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR); and Homeland Security. Before that, he was a Raytheon executive vice president and president of Electronic Systems. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The phrase Chairman of the Board has several meanings: Chairman of the Board is the term used to denote the leader of a corporations board of directors. ... A chief executive officer (CEO) or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or executive officer of a corporation, company, or agency. ... Raytheon Company NYSE: RTN is a major United States military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts. ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ...

Corporate biography

A native of California, Swanson graduated magna cum laude from California Polytechnic State University with a bachelors degree in industrial engineering. He attended a graduate degree program in business administration at Golden Gate University. He was selected as the Outstanding Industrial Engineering Graduate in 1972, and in 1991 was recognized as an Honored Alumnus by California Polytechnic State University School of Engineering. Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... California Polytechnic State University California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, popularly known as Cal Poly, is a public coeducational university located in San Luis Obispo, California. ... Industrial engineering is the engineering discipline that concerns the design, development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, material and process. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... Golden Gate University is a private university that was founded as the night school arm of the San Francisco YMCA in 1853. ...

Swanson joined Raytheon in 1972 and has held a wide range of leadership positions, including manufacturing manager of the company’s Equipment Division, senior vice president and general manager of the Missile Systems Division, general manager of Raytheon Electronic Systems, and chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon Systems Company.

Swanson is also a member of the board of directors of Sprint Nextel Corporation^[1], the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation Board of Directors^[2], the California Polytechnic State University President’s Cabinet^{[citation needed]}, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway board^[3]. Pepperdine University made him a member of their board of regents^[4] and awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. It has been suggested that Board of Trustees be merged into this article or section. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Rose Kennedy Greenway is located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. ... Pepperdine University is a private institution of higher learning affiliated with the Church of Christ. ... A Board of governors is usually the governing board of a public entity. ...

Swanson is also a member of the Secretary of the Air Force Advisory Board and is a trustee of the Association of the U.S. Army. He serves as a member of the National Defense Industrial Association, the Navy League, the Air Force Association, and the Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industries Association. He is a member of the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation board of advisors, an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. The Secretary of the Air Force is the civilian head of the United States Department of the Air Force, a component organization of the Department of Defense. ... The United States Army is the branch of the United States armed forces that has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... The Navy League refers to various different organisations worldwide: // the Leagues themselves Navy League on its own refers to the original United Kingdom organisation (now merged with The Marine Society) responsible for the Sea Cadet Corps (United Kingdom) and later the Girls Nautical Training Corps, and redirects to Sea Cadet... The Air Force Association (AFA) is an independent, nonprofit, civilian organization promoting public understanding of aerospace power. ... The CIAs seal features an eagle atop a sixteen-point compass. ... The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the scholarly society for the field of aerospace engineering. ...

Plagiarism

On April 24, 2006 in a statement^[5] released by Raytheon, Swanson admitted to plagiarism in claiming authorship for his booklet, "Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management," after being exposed by The New York Times. On May 2, 2006, Raytheon withdrew distribution of the book.^[6] On May 3, 2006, Raytheon "punished" Swanson by reducing his compensation by approximately $1 million for publishing what was "later found to have been taken from a 1944 engineering classic, "The Unwritten Laws of Engineering," by W. J. King."^[7] Further investigation by the Boston Herald revealed that Swanson had also copied some of "his" rules from Secretray of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and columnist Dave Barry [1]. Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty, the unacknowledged use of another persons idea(s), information, language or writing. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. ... Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is currently serving as the 21st United States Secretary of Defense, since January 20, 2001, under President George W. Bush. ... David Barry, Jr. ...

The Boston Globe, the major newspaper in Raytheon's home town, reported "the move was largely symbolic given Swanson's robust $7 million pay package in 2005."^[8] The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ...

References

1. ^ List of Directors from Sprint's website
2. ^ Board of Directors from the website of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation
3. ^ Board members chosen for Greenway Conservancy, a press release from the website of the Boston Redevelopment Authority
4. ^ Board of Regents from the Pepperdine University website
5. ^ Raytheon Chairman & CEO Comments Regarding 'Unwritten Rules'. Raytheon News Release. URL accessed on 2006-05-02.
6. ^ >"Raytheon halts distribution of controversial booklet by CEO", AP/Boston.com, 2006-05-02. URL accessed on 2006-05-02.
7. ^ LESLIE WAYNE. "Raytheon Punishes Chief Executive for Lifting Text", The New York Times, 2006-05-03. URL accessed on 2006-05-03.
8. ^ >Robert Weisman. "CEO gets $1m slap for misuse of maxims", The Boston Globe, 2006-05-04. URL accessed on 2006-05-10.

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External links

• Biography of William H. Swanson (in PDF format), from Raytheon's website