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This article has been modified from its original form. Correction appended.An emeritus professor at Harvard Business School who is a leading expert on the development of the modern corporation, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ’40, has donated his collected works to the Historical Collections department of the school’s Baker Library...
Chandler, the Straus professor of business history emeritus, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for “The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business,” published the previous year...
...Chandler has recast the way historians understand managerial capitalism,” said Bernard Bailyn, the Adams University professor emeritus at Harvard. “Chandler is an inspiration to those in the field of business history,” Bailyn said...
David S. Lander, who is the Coolidge professor of history and professor of economics emeritus at Harvard, said that Chandler “transformed and, to a great extent, defined the processes of economic development with his emphasis on the role of managerial business units...
...Texas in this connection.”This is not the first time the recognition of a Harvard professor for a Nobel Prize has been contested.Last year’s Nobel laureates in physics included H. David Politzer, a graduate student of Sidney R. Coleman, now professor emeritus. Politzer was recognized for his work in quantum chromodynamics, a field in which Coleman was deeply involved.“When the prize was announced last year, a number of people commented to me that it was a shame that Sidney wasn’t recognized with the Nobel Prize...