Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

Born: September 15, 1918
Died: May 9, 2007 (aged 88)
Bio: Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations.
Known for:
- Scale and scope (1990)
- Inventing the electronic century (2001)