In Memoriam: Alfred Chandler and the Soul of Business History

I never really knew Al Chandler. While my teachers, Lou Galambos,David Hounshell, and Hugh Aitken, were to varying degrees closefriends with Chandler, I spoke at length with him only twice.I met Chandler for the first time in 1990 when I was tryingto decide where to do my doctorate and I met with him a secondtime when I held the Chandler Travel Fellowship at the HarvardBusiness School in 1995 as I was writing my doctoral dissertation.Chandler's scholarship consistently shaped my approach to thestudy of business history, yet my relationship was always toChandler's academic research rather than to him as a mentoror as a colleague. Although I never knew Chandler in a personal sense, I also neverknew business history without his overwhelming intellectualpresence. Since 1984, when I first studied economic historyunder Hugh Aitken as an undergraduate at Amherst     

截断思想在算法分析中的应用

本文应用数学方法将工程技术中遇到的无穷过程进行截断,以求得到实际问题的计算机求解,提出了不同于传统的用约等于或者四舍五入方法得到的数值。     

In Our Opinion

Abstract

Over a million supervisors in industry, government, and business have taken the ten-hour J.I.T. program. Its influence upon effective training procedures on-the-job, therefore is likely to be great. The implication of this program for vocational business education are made evident in this article.