About Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. 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. He has been called "the doyen of American business historians". Chandler began looking at large-scale enterprises in the early 1950s when he assisted a team of researchers that supported Alfred P. Alfred Chandler has drawn many fans over the past century due to his accomplished work that eventually led to the genesis of the topic of business history.
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