Thomas K. McCraw
There are 4 articles for this faculty member.
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Thomas K. McCraw is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School.
Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters
| Published: | August 28, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Business history is a rich source of knowledge and inspiration for today's executives. Do we pay enough attention to the past? Here are four Working Knowledge articles that provide lessons from history about leaders, leadership, and business organization.
Published in 2007
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
| Q&A with: | Thomas K. McCraw |
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| Published: | May 7, 2007 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Economist Joseph Schumpeter was perhaps the most powerful thinker ever on innovation, entrepreneurship, and capitalism. He was also one of the most unusual personalities of the 20th century, as Harvard Business School professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw shows in a new biography. Read our interview and book excerpt.
Dividends from Schumpeter's Noble Failure
| Published: | February 7, 2007 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Before influential Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter wrote the seminal Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, there came the difficult-to-digest Business Cycles. Although the book was a failure, professor Thomas K. McCraw, who has written a forthcoming Schumpeter biography, believes Business Cycles developed Schumpeter's thinking on capitalism and ultimately changed the practice of business history. Excerpted from Business History Review.
Published in 1999
It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
| Published: | October 12, 1999 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
The Virginians in Jamestown, the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay, the Quakers in Pennsylvania and other early settlers of what later became the United States all brought with them elements of capitalism, precursors of the future nation's market-driven direction. In this excerpt from his article "American Capitalism" in Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, HBS Professor Thomas K. McCraw looks at the early years of capitalism on the North American continent.
