Management: Past and Present: A Casebook on the History of American Business

by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Richard S. Tedlow, Thomas K. McCraw

With each critical turning point in the evolution of business, fundamentally new relationships between owners, workers and the government developed to meet the needs of the marketplace. Discuss these changes in American business management from a historical perspective using this casebook...now an integral component of the Harvard Business School curriculum. Authors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Thomas McCraw, and Richard S. Tedlow share their knowledge and expertise with you as you take a case-oriented journey through the archives of some of businessUs revolutionary moments.

800 pages, Hardcover

First published August 9, 1995

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.