AKA Alfred duPont Chandler, Jr.

Born: 15-Sep-1918
Birthplace: Guyencourt, DE
Died: 9-May-2007
Location of death: Cambridge, MA [1]
Cause of death: Heart Failure

Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Business historian

Military service: US Naval Reserve (1940-45)

    University: AB, Harvard University (1940)
    University: AM, Harvard University (1947)
    University: PhD History, Harvard University (1952)
    Professor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1960-63)
    Professor: History, Johns Hopkins University (1963-71)
    Professor: Business History, Harvard Business School (1971-89)

    Pulitzer Prize for History 1978 for The Visible Hand
    Guggenheim Fellowship

Author of books:
Strategy and Structure (1962, nonfiction)
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977, nonfiction)
Managerial Hierarchies (1980, nonfiction)
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism (1985, nonfiction, with Richard Tedlow)
Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrialized Capitalism (1994, nonfiction)
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations (1997, nonfiction)
The Dynamic Firm (1998, nonfiction)

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