Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation,9781587980237

Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation

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ISBN13: 9781587980237
ISBN10: 1587980231
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-08-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary

This meticulously researched biography of Pierre S. du Pont, head of the Du Pont Company and later General Motors, describes how the Delaware scion took a loosely run, family gunpowder factory and turned it into a giant corporation. Moreover, by astute business management he transformed a faltering General Motors into one of the world's most profitable enterprises. Chandler and Salsbury, who had access to business and personal records rarely available to historians, made the most of them. It is truly one of the finest business histories ever written. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. received an A.B. in 1940 and a Ph.D. in 1952 from Harvard University. He has taught at MIT and Johns Hopkins University, and since 1970 at the Harvard Business School. He became Professor Emeritus in 1989 Stephen Salsbury was an Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware He later became Chairman of the History Department at the University of Sidney, Australia. He is now deceased

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
I. THE YEARS OF PREPARATION
The Family and the Firm
3(20)
The Apprenticeship
23(24)
The New Company
47(30)
The Big Company
77(46)
II. MANAGING THE POWDER COMPANY
The Treasurer
123(26)
Formulating Financial Policy
149(20)
Investment Overseas?
169(32)
Maintaining Financial Control
201(26)
Toward Vertical Integration
227(32)
III. THE NEW CHALLENGES
The Powder Company Assailed
259(42)
The Problem of Succession
301(21)
The Cousins Split
322(37)
Supplying the Allies
359(31)
The American War Effort: Negotiations Begun
390(20)
The American War Effort: Negotiations Completed
410(23)
IV. THE GENERAL MOTORS STORY
Initial Involvement, 1915--1917
433(24)
Du Pont ``Control'' at General Motors, 1918--1920
457(18)
The Crisis, 1920
475(17)
Reorganization and Regeneration, 1921
492(19)
Product Policy and Technological Innovation, 1921--1923
511(26)
General Motors Rebuilt, 1923--1924
537(23)
Last Years at General Motors and Du Pont
560(32)
The Family and the Enterprise
592(13)
Appendix 605(10)
Sources of Information 615(2)
Notes 617(92)
Index 709

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