Lessons from al, revisited

Business History Review

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 309-315

  Yeager, Mary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 50849112019     PISSN: 00076805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500062802     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. For details, see the Henrietta M. Larson Papers, Baker Library, Harvard Business School, series III, Business History Foundation.
2. Ibid.
3. Letter from Ralph M. Hower, Secretary, Boston, Massachusetts, to David A. Shepard, Director, Standard Oil, 19 Mar. 1957, Business History Foundation, Standard Oil Miscellaneous, 1944-1957, folder no.70, Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
4. E-mail exchange, 16 July 2001, in author's possession. See also the account in "Henrietta Larson 1894-1983," Harvard Business School Bulletin (Oct. 1983): 38, which quotes Alfred D. Chandler Jr. as follows: "[Larson was] a pioneer in researching the data from which important interpretations are made, in developing techniques for doing that.... She was the grand lady of the field."
5. Edith Penrose, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 3rd ed. (New York, 1995), 24.
6. The paper was subsequently published as "The Development of Large-Scale Organizations in America," in The Journal of Economic History, vol. 30, No.1, The Tasks of Economic History (Mar., 1970): 201-17.
7. My own interpretation differs only slightly from that offered by Louis Galambos in a recent e-mail exchange, 29 Nov. 2007, in my possession.