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- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Podcast with: Interviewer: Running Time: Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whom many credited with founding the discipline of business history, died at age 88 on May 9, 2007. His work is legendary, but so too was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
Harry Chandler
Chandler built the Los Angeles Times into arguably the most powerful and successful newspaper on the West Coast. Chandler so greatly expanded the reach of the Times that by 1941 the paper had a daily... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
became an epic story because some national industries died while others conquered.— Alfred D. Chandler The epic story also has its heroic achievements. The worldwide triumph of the Japanese consumer electronics industry took place in a... View Details
- Awards
Alfred D. Chandler Travel Fellowship
Recipient of a 2015 Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Travel Grant for the Business History Conference. View Details
- June 1977
- Case
Chandler Home Products
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
Yoshino, Michael Y. "Chandler Home Products." Harvard Business School Case 377-232, June 1977.
- June 1982 (Revised May 1983)
- Case
Chandler Chemical Corp. (A)
By: Jay O. Light
Keywords: Chemical Industry
Light, Jay O. "Chandler Chemical Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 282-099, June 1982. (Revised May 1983.)
- April 1988 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Chandler Home Products (C)--1984
By: Robert H. Hayes
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
Hayes, Robert H. "Chandler Home Products (C)--1984." Harvard Business School Case 688-090, April 1988. (Revised August 1995.)
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
CHANDLER: His great books “light up a landscape that had been only dimly perceived, if at all.” Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the renowned Harvard Business School historian who established business history as an indepen-dent and important area... View Details
- May 1988
- Case
Chandler Home Products (D)--1986
By: Robert H. Hayes
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
Hayes, Robert H. "Chandler Home Products (D)--1986." Harvard Business School Case 688-091, May 1988.
- June 1994 (Revised June 1995)
- Case
Chandler Home Products: European Rationalization
Chandler, a large U.S. consumer products firm, is rationalizing its European operations. Tony Pesci, protagonist, is deciding which plants to close for maximum efficiency. The manufacturing/marketing relationship is strained as efficiency is being weighed against... View Details
Keywords: Debates; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Labor; Contracts; Operations; Performance Efficiency; Relationships; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Yoshino, Michael Y. "Chandler Home Products: European Rationalization." Harvard Business School Case 394-221, June 1994. (Revised June 1995.)
- July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
Chandler Home Products (B) (Abridged)
By: Robert H. Hayes
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
Hayes, Robert H. "Chandler Home Products (B) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 696-013, July 1995. (Revised April 1996.)
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
CHANDLER: The historian's papers find a fitting home. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the School’s Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, is known for his sweeping volumes chronicling the growth of modern capitalism, corporations, and management.... View Details
- Web
Alfred D. Chandler Papers | Baker Library
Alfred D. Chandler Papers Alfred Chandler portrait, March 10, 1971. HBS Archives Photograph Collection: Faculty and Staff. HBS Archives, Baker Library, Harvard Business School (olvwork380753). Professor... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy years following its formation in 1926, the company's senior managers at their headquarters in... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
In a recently published book on current international research in business history, edited by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. contributed an essay on the opportunities... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor emeritus (and Pulitzer Prize-winner)... View Details
- Article
Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement
Among historians, Alfred Chandler's influence is by far the greatest, as he has affected economics, sociology, and business administration. Chandler never took short cuts, never stinted, and never published until he was satisfied that he had done his very best.... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Success; Books; Demand and Consumers; Power and Influence; Economic Growth; Ethics; Knowledge Sharing; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Fair Value Accounting
McCraw, T. K. "Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement." Business History Review 82, no. 4 (Winter 2008).
- 2010
- Article
Zwischen Familienerbe und globalem Markt. Eigentum und Management von großen westdeutschen Familienunternehmen im Wandel (1960-2008)
"Between Family Heritage and Global Market. Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West-German Family Firms (1960-2008)" Large family firms fall between two theoretical accounts. They neither follow the development path described by Alfred D. Chandler nor do they... View Details
- January 2004
- Article
Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test
By: Geoffrey Jones and Alison Kraft
The relative ability of different sizes of firm and organisational designs to develop and sustain dynamic capabilities in innovation and create new businesses remains a matter of contention. While Chandler among many others has emphasised the pre-eminent role of large... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Brands and Branding; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Development; Product Launch; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Great Britain
Jones, Geoffrey, and Alison Kraft. "Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test." Business History 46, no. 1 (January 2004): 100–122.