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Alfred duPont Chandler
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http://www.caslon.com.au/biographies/chandler.htm
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Business History & Biography, International Business, Business Leaders
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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. |
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By Chandler, Alfred duPont
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Representing a path-breaking effort to look at multinational corporations in the round, this book emphasizes their scope, history and development, cultural and social implications, and governance...
Ranking at Amazon 2452120
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Cambridge University Press
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January 2005 - Paperback
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International Business
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By Chandler, Alfred duPont
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Tracing the history of the consumer electronics and computer businesses from a global perspective, the author of Scale and Scope explores the evolution of the Information Age, discussing the IBM's...
Ranking at Amazon 3185201
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Free Press
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October 2001 - Hardcover
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Information Technology & Telecom Industries
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By Chandler, Alfred duPont
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It is truly one of the finest business histories ever written by an author who won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes for History.
Ranking at Amazon 2185170
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Beard Group
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December 2000 - Paperback
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Business Leaders
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By Chandler, Alfred duPont
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This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic,
Ranking at Amazon 2185102
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Oxford University Press
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August 2000 - Hardcover
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Information management
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By Chandler, Alfred duPont
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Written in nontechnical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic...
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Cambridge University Press
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July 1997 - Hardcover
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Business History & Biography
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By Chandler, Alfred duPont
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"Whatever you dream, begin it, for boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -Goethe What qualities brought America to its dominance of world industry? How will American technology fare in the new...
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National Academy Press
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November 1996 - Hardcover
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Business Leaders
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By Chandler, Alfred duPont
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With each critical turning point in the evolution of business, fundamentally new relationships between owners, workers and the government developed to meet the needs of the marketplace. Discuss these...
Ranking at Amazon 3638689
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Howard W Sams & Co
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August 1995 - Hardcover
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Business History & Biography
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By Chandler, Alfred duPont
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Scale and Scope is Alfred Chandler’s first major work since his Pulitzer Prize–winning The Visible Hand. Representing ten years of research into the history of the...
Ranking at Amazon 637443
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Belknap Pr
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March 1994 - Paperback
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Business History & Biography
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By Chandler, Alfred duPont
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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...
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Belknap Pr
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January 1993 - Paperback
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Business History & Biography
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By Hikino, Takashi
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"Scale and Scope" is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer prize-winning "The Visible Hand." Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this
Ranking at Amazon 306304
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Belknap Pr
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April 1990 - Hardcover
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General Management
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