Alfred D.Chandler Jr.
New Castle, 1918 - 2007
Alfred Dupont Chandler Jr. received his doctorate in history from Harvard in 1952 and devoted his whole life to teaching and research. A disciple of Talcott Parsons, Joseph Schumpeter and Arthur Cole, he was an eminent promoter of business history studies at Harvard Business School. He was also a teacher atthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology, between 1960 and 1963, and the Johns Hopkins University between 1963 and 1971. He wrote dozens of articles and multiple essays, which have been translated to several...
Alfred Dupont Chandler Jr. received his doctorate in history from Harvard in 1952 and devoted his whole life to teaching and research. A disciple of Talcott Parsons, Joseph Schumpeter and Arthur Cole, he was an eminent promoter of business history studies at Harvard Business School. He was also a teacher atthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology, between 1960 and 1963, and the Johns Hopkins University between 1963 and 1971. He wrote dozens of articles and multiple essays, which have been translated to several languages.
