Symposium on Alfred Chandler

23 January 2009 at 1:00 pm 1 comment

| Dick Langlois |

I just discovered that Business History Review published a special issue this summer in memory of Alfred Chandler. The papers are mostly short, hagiographic, and written by relatively big names — all as it should be. Tom McCraw mentions one detail I had never known: Chandler was dyslexic.

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