Alfred D. Chandler Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 15, 1918 |
| Died | May 9, 2007 (aged 88) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Awards | Bancroft Prize (1978) Pulitzer Prize for History (1978) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Business history |
| Institutions | Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick Merk |
Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (September 15, 1918 – May 9, 2007) was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization. He received the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977). He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[1][2] He has been called "the doyen of American business historians".[3]