Thomas K. McCraw

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Thomas Kincaid McCraw (born September 11, 1940 in Corinth , Mississippi , † November 3, 2012 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American historian who researched corporate history .

Life

McCraw was born in Corinth, Mississippi in 1940. His father, a civil engineer with the Tennessee Valley Authority , was working on a dam near the city at the time. Because of his father's job, the family moved often. McCraw graduated from Florence , Alabama, from high school . He later joined the United States Navy and studied with the Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Mississippi . After completing his bachelor's degree there in 1962, he served four years in the Navy and was stationed in Bermuda for most of the time . He then continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin , where he received a master's and doctorate . McCraw now taught at the University of Texas at Austin . During this time, from 1973 to 1974, he was a Harvard Newcomer Fellowship in corporate history at Harvard Business School . In 1976 he finally moved to Harvard University , where he first taught from 1976 to 1978 as a visiting associate professor and then from 1978 as a full professor . In 1989 he was appointed Isidor Straus Professor of Business History . In 2006 he retired . Geoffrey G. Jones succeeded him in the chair .

From 1989 to 1990 he was President of the Business History Conference . From 1994 to 2004 he was editor or co-editor of the Business History Review .

For his book Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis and Alfred E. Kahn , he received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1985 and the Thomas Newcomen Book Award in 1986 . In 2009 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Business History Conference.

McCraw had been married since 1962 and had two daughters, one of whom died in 1970, and a son.

Publications (selection)

  • Morgan versus Lilienthal: The Feud Within the TVA (1970)
  • TVA and the Power Fight, 1933-1939 (1971)
  • Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis and Alfred E. Kahn (1984)
  • (Ed.): America Versus Japan: A Comparative Study of Business-Government Relations (1986)
  • (Ed.): The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business (1988)
  • (Ed.): Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (1997)
  • with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (Ed.): The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980–1995 (1999)
  • American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked (2000)
  • Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (2007)
  • The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin and Other Immigrants Forged the American Economy (2012, Harvard University Press )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage: Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners (1999, Greenwood Publishing Group)
  2. ^ Lifetime Achievement Award , Business History Conference website
personal data
SURNAME McCraw, Thomas K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCraw, Thomas Kincaid (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Corinth , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2012
Place of death Cambridge , Massachusetts