To Fay—with love

Jul 18, 2026

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The Visible Hand The Managerial Revolutionin American Business The Belknap Press ofHarvard University PressCambridge,Massachusettsand London,England Copyright C1977 by Alfred D.Chandler,Jr.All rights reservedPrinted in the United States of America fifteenth printing,1999 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Chandler,Alfred Dupont.The visible hand. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1.Business enterprises—United States—Management—History.2.Industrial organization—United States—History.3.United States-Industries.I.Title.HF5343.C58465840097377-1529ISBNo-674-9405I-2(cloth)ISBNo-674-94052-0(paper) Acknowledgments This book had its beginnings some fifteen years ago,when the late Arthur C.Cole,Thomas C.Cochran,and I agreed to write a three-volume serieson the history of American business.Cole was to review the evolvingstructure of the American business system.Cochran was to examine theplace of business in its broader culture,and in 1972 published Business inAzmerican Life.I was to study changing business practices,particularlythose concerned with the management of the firm. My own study acquired its first focus when I received a grant from theAlfred P.Sloan Foundation to examine the rise of big business and thepublic response to it.By concentrating on the coming of modern businessenterprise I believed that I could broaden my contribution to the series bydescribing the changing processes of production and distribution in theUnited States and the ways in which they have been managed,since theeighteenth century.The second part of the Sloan Foundation project,thatdealing with the public response to big business,was carried out by LouisGalambos,who published his results in I975 in The Public Image of BigBusiness in America,1880-1940.The work I began under the SloanFoundation grant was completed with assistance from the Division of Re-search,Graduate School of Business Administration,Harvard University.I am greatly indebted to the officers of the Sloan Foundation and to DeanLawrence E.Fouraker and the heads of the Division of Research at theSchool who provided funds to pay for time and facilities so necessary tothe completion of such an extended study. The research and writing of this history was carried out in a traditionalmanner.It has been pieced together from reading business records andsecondary works,and from countless discussions with students and col-leagues.No teams of scholars or computerized data were involved.Ilearned much from graduate students,particularly those who wrote dis-sertations on topics related to the themes in this book.These includedWilliam H.Becker,Charles N.Cheape III,Russell I.Fries,Harold Live-say,Edwin J.Perkins,P.Glenn Porter,and Mary A.Yeager.I am espe- Acknowledgments cially grateful to Chuck Cheape who,as my research assistant,carried outthe laborious work of compiling and collating the data for Appendix Aand other tables.Without the major contributions of these young s

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Jul 18, 2026

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