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Alfred duPont Chandler

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subjects Alfred duPont Chandler writes about Business History & Biography, International Business, Business Leaders
Alfred duPont Chandler's profile Alfred duPont Chandler was born in Delaware in 1918, gaining a AB from Harvard in 1940 before spending five years in the US Navy, an AM in 1947 and a doctorate in 1952.

He was a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 1950 and 51, becoming an MIT professor in 1960. He was professor of history at Johns Hopkins University during 1963-71 and Director of the Center for Study of Recent American History, 1964 to 71.

Chandler became Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School in 1971 (Emeritus from 1989). He was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 1975.

Official appointments included service as consultant to the US Naval War College in 1954 and chairing the Advisory History Committee of the US Atomic Energy Commission 1969 to 77. He was a member of the editorial team for the 11 volume Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower and four volume Letters of Theodore Roosevelt. Chandler was a Guggenheim Fellow for 1958-59.

  • FORTUNE 500? He Practically Invented It @ Fortune (04/17/2006)
    Geoffrey Colvin spoke with him recently about the future of the FORTUNE 500, important trends that haven't changed since the 1880s, and why he doesn't foresee China dominating the global economy
  • Alfred Chandler @ GurusOnline @ GurusOnline.tv (12/01/2003)
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Coming of Managerial Capitalism: A Casebook on the History of American Economic Institutions
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A compendium of the material used in teaching a similarly named course at Harvard Business School. The book provides material to generate discussions on how, when and why the "basic units of...

Ranking at Amazon 1126645
 Richard d Irwin
 May 1985 - Hardcover
 Business History & Biography
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Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise
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The concept of the “visible hand” in big business enterprise, so persuasively and brilliantly argued in Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.’s prize-winning The Visible Hand: The Managerial...

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 Harvard University Press
 July 1980 - Paperback
 Organization Design
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Giant Enterprise
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 Ayer Co Pub
 June 1980 - Hardcover
 International Business
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Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise
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Argues that the organization of modern industrial activities depends on managerial hierarchies with the ability to grow and develop

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 Harvard University Press
 April 1980 - Hardcover
 Organization Design
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The Philosophy of Management
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 Ayer Co Pub
 January 1980 - Hardcover
 Business History & Biography
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Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise
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This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history...

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 MIT Press
 August 1969 - Paperback
 Business History & Biography
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