Horace K. Hathaway

Horace King Hathaway (9 April 1878 - 12 June 1944) was an American consulting engineer and lecturer at Harvard Business School, MIT and the Wharton School, known as one of the foreman of scientific management.

[1][2][3] Born in San Francisco in 1878, Hathaway attended the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry in Philadelphia and afterwards was apprentice and foreman with the Midvale Steel Company from 1894 to 1896.

[4] 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 Carl Barth.

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