Background
Alfred Du Pont Chandler, Jr. , was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918, the son of Alfred DuPont and Carol Remsay Chandler.
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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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The role of large-scale business enterprise?big business and its managers?during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution. The managerial revolution, presented here with force and conviction, is the story of how the visible hand of management replaced what Adam Smith called the invisible hand of market forces. Chandler shows that the fundamental shift toward managers running large enterprises exerted a far greater influence in determining size and concentration in American industry than other factors so often cited as critical: the quality of entrepreneurship, the availability of capital, or public policy.
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A selection of writings documenting the growth of the American automobile industry from 1900 through 1957 by various authors.
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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 distribution came to be operated by hierarchies of salaried managers" who have little, if any, equity in the business for which they work.
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Alfred Du Pont Chandler, Jr. , was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918, the son of Alfred DuPont and Carol Remsay Chandler.
He was educated at Harvard, receiving his B. A. in 1940 just in time to join the United States Navy. In 1945, Chandler returned to Harvard to study history, earning his M. A. in 1947 and his Ph. D. in 1952.
His professional career began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950 where he was a research associate. He then became a faculty member and remained at M. I. T. until 1963, with time off to be a research fellow at Harvard in 1953 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1958.
Chandler served an apprenticeship as assistant editor of The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt under Elting M. Morison and John M. Blum from 1950 to 1953. This was later to stand him in good stead when an opportunity arose to edit the Eisenhower Papers. His first book was a biography, Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor, Analyst, and Reformer (1956), which was indicative of his interest in the history of businessmen, businesses, and business organizations. This book also showed his belief in the middle-class nature of reform movements in the United States.
While at M. I. T. Chandler also served as an academic consultant to the Naval War College in 1954. His second book, Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise, was a study in organizational behavior which won a Newcomen Award for 1962. It also furthered his reputation as a business historian, and the following year he moved to Johns Hopkins University.
At Johns Hopkins Chandler continued his productivity even though he took on the added responsibilities of director of the Center for Study of Recent American History in 1964 and of department chairman in 1966. He also became chairman of the Historical Advisory Committee of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1969, a post he held until 1977.
While busy with these administrative tasks, Chandler still found time to write. In 1964 he published Giant Enterprise: Ford, General Motors and the Automotive Industry, and in 1965 he edited a book entitled The Railroads. His major intellectual energy, however, was devoted to the editing of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, which appeared in five volumes in 1970. His assistant editor, Steven B. Ambrose, became a noted Eisenhower scholar.
In 1970 Chandler was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Visiting Fellow at Harvard. He remained at Harvard as the Strauss Professor of Business History in the Graduate School of Business, although he was also a visiting fellow at All Souls, Oxford, and a visiting professor at the European Institute of Washington. The same year he was a visiting fellow at Harvard he also was a member of the National Advertising Council's Committee on Educational and Professional Development.
During his tenure at Harvard, Chandler continued to write. In 1971, along with Stephen Salsbury, he published Pierre S. du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation. In 1977 he published what was his most famous book, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. In 1977-1978 he served as president of the Business History Conference.
Since that time he wrote The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business (1988), and his Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism was written with the assistance of Takashi Hikino (1990). Scale and Scope was hailed as an indispensable historical reference spanning three-quarters of the twentieth century. In the book Chandler compares the European business environment with that of the United States. He evaluated the significance of business structure to performance and success in the marketplace. Chandler was dubbed the "dean of American business history" by Financial World in 1991.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. retired from the Harvard Business School on June 30, 1989.
He died on May 9, 2007.
(The role of large-scale business enterprise?big business ...)
(Argues that the organization of modern industrial activit...)
(A selection of writings documenting the growth of the Ame...)
(A compendium of the material used in teaching a similarly...)
He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
While serving in the navy, in 1944 he married Kay Martin.