Colby Chandler (CEO)

{{Short description|American businessman (died 2021)}}

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| name = Colby Chandler

| image = Colby H. Chandler, RIT NandE 1974 Nov25 Complete.jpg

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| caption = Chandler circa 1974

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| birth_date = 1925 or 1926

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| death_date = March 4, 2021

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| education = {{ubl|University of Maine|MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA)}}

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| employer = Kodak

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Colby Hackett Chandler (1925/6 – March 4, 2021)[https://cnycentral.com/news/local/former-kodak-ceo-and-chairman-dies Former Kodak CEO and Chairman dies] was the chairman{{cite news

|newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/15/business/kodak-defense-in-camera-trial.html?pagewanted=1

|accessdate=June 13, 2010

|title=Kodak Defense In Camera Trial

|date=August 15, 1989

}} and chief executive officer of the Eastman Kodak Company.{{cite news

|newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/09/business/click-up-down-and-out-at-kodak.html?pagewanted=1

|accessdate=June 13, 2010

|date=December 9, 1989

|title=Click: Up, Down and Out at Kodak

|author=John Holusha

}}

He was a graduate of the University of Maine and received his master's degree in management (M.B.A.) from the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management.{{cite news

|newspaper=Reading Eagle

|title=Kodak chairman likes being close to his roots

|page=D-1

|date=March 16, 1986

|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NgMiAAAAIBAJ&pg=3751,3734660&dq=colby+chandler+kodak+maine&hl=en

|author=David Armon

|accessdate=June 14, 2010

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Chandler was also a member of the board of trustees of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He joined the board in 1974, and served as chairman of the board from 1992 to 1994.{{cite web |last1=McGrain |first1=Vienna |title=RIT mourns the loss of Trustee Chairman Emeritus Colby Chandler |url=https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-mourns-loss-trustee-chairman-emeritus-colby-chandler |website=RIT |access-date=5 March 2022 |language=en |date=9 March 2021}}