Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation

by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Stephen Salsbury

It is truly one of the finest business histories ever written by an author who won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes for History.

Genres: Business, History, Biography, Finance

722 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University. Called "the Herodotus of business history," he wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization.

Reviews

[Preston Malone]

One of the great industrialists - the gunpowder king

[Lloyd Fassett]

4/4/18 found it by looking up the author