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...Government,” where dozens of the Federalist Papers are read and studied intensively. In “Bureaucratic Politics: Military, Government, Economic and Social Organizations,” a sampling of decision theory, non-parametric statistics and stochastic modeling is combined with a healthy reading of Alfred Chandler??s The Visible Hand, the history of the U.S. Army, and Mary Douglas’s How Institutions Think. There are many other courses at Harvard that combine narrative, philosophical, and quantitative methods, and this combination represents one of the real strengths of modern political science education...
...collection, which spans Chandler??s career from 1941 to 2004, features almost all of his lecture notes and professional correspondences. The papers could be significant for researchers tracing the evolution of the many giant corporations whose histories Chandler has chronicled, including chemical company DuPont and automaker General Motors...
...Chandler??s colleagues lauded his contributions, highlighting the potential importance of the collection...
...Chandler??s influence is not, however, limited to works bearing his own name. The business historian worked closely with former General Motors chairman Alfred Sloan on his influential autobiography “My Years With General Motors...
...result of Chandler??s sloppiness is that all the insights and compelling information that do appear seems to be sheer accident rather than the work of a skillful writer. The interviews, though entertaining, do not give a complete portrait of Hitchcock, and the evidence surrounding them is not adequately investigated. We are asked to simply take people’s word for it, without any conclusions reached...