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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
  • 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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Yoshino, Michael Y. "Chandler Home Products." Harvard Business School Case 377-232, June 1977.
  • April 1988 (Revised August 1995)
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Chandler Home Products (C)--1984

By: Robert H. Hayes
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
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Hayes, Robert H. "Chandler Home Products (C)--1984." Harvard Business School Case 688-090, April 1988. (Revised August 1995.)
  • May 1988
  • Case

Chandler Home Products (D)--1986

By: Robert H. Hayes
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
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Hayes, Robert H. "Chandler Home Products (D)--1986." Harvard Business School Case 688-091, May 1988.
  • June 1982 (Revised May 1983)
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Chandler Chemical Corp. (A)

By: Jay O. Light
Keywords: Chemical Industry
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Light, Jay O. "Chandler Chemical Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 282-099, June 1982. (Revised May 1983.)
  • July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
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Chandler Home Products (B) (Abridged)

By: Robert H. Hayes
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
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Hayes, Robert H. "Chandler Home Products (B) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 696-013, July 1995. (Revised April 1996.)
  • June 1994 (Revised June 1995)
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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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Yoshino, Michael Y. "Chandler Home Products: European Rationalization." Harvard Business School Case 394-221, June 1994. (Revised June 1995.)
  • 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
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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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McCraw, T. K. "Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement." Business History Review 82, no. 4 (Winter 2008).
  • 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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Jones, Geoffrey, and Alison Kraft. "Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test." Business History 46, no. 1 (January 2004): 100–122.
  • 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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Lubinski, Christina. "Zwischen Familienerbe und globalem Markt. Eigentum und Management von großen westdeutschen Familienunternehmen im Wandel (1960-2008)." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 55, no. 2 (2010): 204–229.
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The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership

My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details

  • 28 Aug 2008
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Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

global world will be at an advantage in gaining leadership positions. What Is The Legacy Of Alfred Chandler? Remembering Alfred Chandler Alfred D. Chandler Jr., who died in May 2007, defined the field of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

published in English. Q: The foundational research by the late HBS professor Alfred Chandler is acknowledged in essays throughout the book, but is also sometimes contradicted. How have current research agendas built upon or moved beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

Business History at HBS traces its roots back to 1927 when it was part of a course in business policy. But the golden age for this area of study at the School began with the arrival of Professor Alfred Chandler in 1970. Universally... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 1985
  • Book

The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: A Casebook on the History of American Economic Institutions

By: A. D. Chandler Jr. and R. S. Tedlow
Keywords: Economic Systems; Managerial Roles
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Chandler, A. D., Jr., and R. S. Tedlow. The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: A Casebook on the History of American Economic Institutions. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1985.
  • 1996
  • Book

Management Past and Present: A Casebook on American Business History

By: A. D. Chandler Jr., T. K. McCraw and R. S. Tedlow
Keywords: Business History; United States
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Chandler, A. D., Jr., T. K. McCraw, and R. S. Tedlow. Management Past and Present: A Casebook on American Business History. Cincinnati: South-Western College Publishing, 1996.
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