Background
McCraw was born in Corinth, Mississippi near where his father John, a civil engineer for the Tennessee Valley Authority was helping to build a dam.
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Thomas Kincaid McCraw was an American business historian and Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for History for Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn, which "used biography to explore thorny issues in economics.".
Education
The family moved frequently, and McCraw graduated from high school in Florence, Alabama. McCraw attended the University of Mississippi on an Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship, and graduated with a Bachelor degree in 1962. He was an officer of the United States Navy in 1962-1966, then went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison for his graduate studies, completing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1970.
Career
He worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin from 1967–1969. McCraw was assistant professor of history (1970-1974) and associate professor of history (1974-1978) at the University of Texas at Austin before joining Harvard Business School in 1978, becoming a director of research in 1984-1986. Throughout his academic career, McCraw served in various positions.
McCraw died in 2012.
He had been suffering from heart and lung problems.
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At Harvard he created a standard first-year course for Master of Business Administration students, “Creating Modern Capitalism,” which enhanced the profile and popularity of business history at the school. Its syllabus became a textbook that is widely used. McCraw wrote a number of books on business and business history, including Morgan versus Lilienthal: The Feud within the Tennessee Valley Authority (1970), Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis Doctorate. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred East. Kahn (1984), The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays Towards a Historical Theory of Business (Alfred Doctorate Chandler, Junior and Richard South Tedlow.
1988), Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (1997), The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School (1999), American Business, 1920-2000: How lieutenant Worked (2000), and Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (2007).
Membership
He served as a member of the council of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and was on the advisory board of the Nomura School of Advanced Management in Tokyo, Japan.
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Pulitzer Prize for History Pulitzer Prize for History
The Pulitzer Prize for History is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.The Pulitzer Prize for History is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.