Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

American historian

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1918

Place of Birth: New Castle County, Delaware, United States

Date of Death: 09-May-2007

Profession: writer, economist, historian, university teacher, economic historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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 his work, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977).
He has been called "the doyen of American business historians".