Melvin G. de Chazeau was an American economist and the second Dean of Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management

S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management

The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It was founded in 1946 and renamed in 1984 after Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S.C...

 following Paul O'Leary's  return to teaching. De Chazeau joined the university’s College of Arts & Sciences Economics Department in 1948 and he retired from the Cornell Faculty in 1967. As a professor emeritus, de Chazeau taught at Cornell and Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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 through AY 1969-1970.

De Chazeau took his degrees from the University of Washington

University of Washington

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 and Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He was an authority on the steel and petroleum industries. His wartime service included the War Production Board

War Production Board

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, President's Council of Economic Advisers

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, and the National Bureau of Economic Research

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. Professor de Chazeau left Ithaca, N.Y. in 1983 and moved to Alexandria, Virginia, the place of his death.