Maynard was born in 1902 in
Northampton, Massachusetts to William Clement Maynard and Edith Lucia (Clark) Maynard. He attended the Protestant
Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1919. In 1923 he obtained his M.Sc. in mechanical engineering at Cornell University. After his graduation in 1923 he started as a graduate student in the production steam division of
Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh, where he was employed until 1929. From 1929 to 1934 he studied industrial problems in the U.S. and in Europe. In 1934 he founded the consulting firm
Methods Engineering Council in Pittsburgh with Maynard as president. In the year 1946-1947 Maynard served as president of the
Society for Advancement of Management as successor of
Raymond R. Zimmerman, and was succeeded by
William L. McGrath. In 1946 Maynard was awarded the
Gilbreth Medal, which had been established in honour of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. In 1954 he received the
Wallace Clark Award, and in 1964 the annual
Henry Laurence Gantt Medal by the
American Management Association and the
ASME. == See also ==