Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and... Wikipedia
Born: September 15, 1918, Guyencourt, DE
Died: May 9, 2007 (age 88 years), Cambridge, MA
Parents: Caroline Johnston Chandler and Alfred DuPont Chandler, II
Education: Harvard University (1952) and Harvard College
Awards: Bancroft Prize (1978) and Pulitzer Prize for History (1978)
Books
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
1977
Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise
1962
Scale and scope
1990
Inventing the electronic century
2001
Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
2005
Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation
1971