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Lessons from Al, Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

Mary A. Yeager
Mary A. Yeager
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MARY A. YEAGER is professor of history at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles.
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Once upon a time, in the 1950s, Alfred Chandler was a student of history, doing what most young, untenured assistant professors of history do. He was applying for a grant. His aim was to conduct research on the 1927 reorganization of the Standard Oil Corporation of New Jersey for a chapter in a forthcoming book that was to become Strategy and Structure.

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Business History Review , Volume 82 , Issue 2: A Special Issue on Alfred D. Chandler Jr. , Summer 2008 , pp. 309 - 315
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2008

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References

1 For details, see the Henrietta M. Larson Papers, Baker Library, Harvard Business School, series III, Business History Foundation.

2 Ibid.

3 Letter from Ralph M. Hower, Secretary, Boston, Massachusetts, to David A. Shepard, Director, Standard Oil, 19 Mar. 1957, Business History Foundation, Standard Oil Miscellaneous, 1944–1957, folder no.70, Baker Library, Harvard Business School.

4 E-mail exchange, 16 July 2001, in author's possession. See also the account in “Henrietta Larson 1894–1983,” Harvard Business School Bulletin (Oct. 1983): 38, which quotes Alfred D. Chandler Jr. as follows: “[Larson was] a pioneer in researching the data from which important interpretations are made, in developing techniques for doing that…. She was the grand lady of the field.”

5 Penrose, Edith, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 3rd ed. (New York, 1995), 24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 The paper was subsequently published as “The Development of Large-Scale Organizations in America,” in The Journal of Economic History, vol. 30, No. 1, The Tasks of Economic History (Mar., 1970): 201–17.Google Scholar

7 My own interpretation differs only slightly from that offered by Louis Galambos in a recent e-mail exchange, 29 Nov. 2007, in my possession.