Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)