Horace King Hathaway (9 April 1878 - 12 June 1944) was an American

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and lecturer at

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, MIT and the

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, known as one of the foreman of

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.Seay, Robert A., and Roger C. Schoenfeldt. "HK Hathaway on product costing: relevant issues of contemporary concern." ''Accounting Historians Journal'' 16.1 (1989): 111-125.

Biography

Youth, education and early career

Born in

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in 1878, Hathaway attended the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry in Philadelphia and afterwards was apprentice and foreman with the

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from 1894 to 1896.

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(ed.), "Hathaway, Horace King (1878–1944)," in: ''The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management'' 2005. In 1902 Hathaway was appointed superintendent at the Payne Engine Company in Elmira, New York. In 1904 he moved to the Link-Belt Company in Philadelphia for a year as assistant to Frederick Winslow Taylor and

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. From 1905 to 1910 he assisted Barth at the Tabor Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, where he eventually served as vice president.

Later career

From 1907 to 1923 Hathaway was consulting engineer at Taylor's consulting firm in Philadelphia, and in between served in the US Army in World War I. From 1923 to 1927 he was consulting engineer back at the West Coast, from 1927 to 1941 director at a chemical company in St. Louis, and from 1941 to his death in 1944 again consulting engineer in the West. Over the years Hataway had lectured at

, MIT and the

, and in his last year the lectured at Stanford University.

Selected reading

* Hathaway, H. K., "The Planning Department, Its Organization and Function." in: ''Industrial Engineering'', 1912, 12. * Hathaway, H. K., "Elementary Study as a Part of the Taylor System of Scientific Management." ''Industrial Engineer'': 85-95. * Hathaway, H. K., "On the technique of manufacturing." ''The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'' 85.1 (1919): 231-256. * Hathaway, H. K., "Logical Steps in Installing the Taylor System of Management," ''Industrial Magazine,'' Vol. LX, No. 2, August, 1920, p. 93. * Hathaway, H. K., "The Mnemonic System of Classification," ''Industrial Management,'' Vol. LX, No. 3, September, 1920, pp. 173–183. * Hathaway, H. K., "Premium and bonus plans." ''Bulletin of the Taylor Society'' 8.2 (1923): 59-65. * Hathaway, H. K., "Standards," Bulletin of the Taylor Society, Vol. XII, No. 5, October, 1927, p. 491; Republished as
Factory Operations Standards
" in:

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(ed.), ''Scientific Management in American Industry,'' Harper & Brothers, 1929. p. 196-226

References

External links

Guide to the H.K. Hathaway Papers, 1907-1929
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