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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
    Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology
    • June 1977
    • Case

    Chandler Home Products

    By: Michael Y. Yoshino
    Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
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    • Awards

    Alfred D. Chandler Travel Fellowship

    Recipient of a 2015 Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Travel Grant for the Business History Conference. View Details
    • April 1988 (Revised August 1995)
    • Case

    Chandler Home Products (C)--1984

    By: Robert H. Hayes
    Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
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    • 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
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    • June 1982 (Revised May 1983)
    • Case

    Chandler Chemical Corp. (A)

    By: Jay O. Light
    Keywords: Chemical Industry
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    • July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
    • Case

    Chandler Home Products (B) (Abridged)

    By: Robert H. Hayes
    Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
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    • 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
    • June 1994 (Revised June 1995)
    • Case

    Chandler Home Products: European Rationalization

    By: Michael Y. Yoshino
    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
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    • 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
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 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
    Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
    • 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
    Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
    • 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
    Keywords: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chandler
    • 01 Jan 2002
    • News

    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Family Ownership; Germany
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