Quote of the day
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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)