Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Mental illness; Pollard, C. William; ServiceMaster Company; World War II; CARE Inc.; Women; Bower, Marvin, 1903-; General Motors Company; Medicine; Hospitals; Railroads; Rockefeller, David, 1915-;...
This is an oral history interview with Peter Drucker, conducted by Karen Linkletter. Drucker describes what he has learned about management from ServiceMaster and CARE, and about differences he has had while working with General Motors. He also...
Jonathan Club; Currency; Gold standard; Dollar, American; Retirement age; Knowledge workers; China
In this transcript of Peter Drucker’s speech, delivered to the Jonathan Club in 1967, Drucker discusses the changing world economy. He begins by discussing currency and the fluctuating value of the U.S. dollar. He goes on to discuss dropping...
Peter Drucker discusses his thoughts on various topics including the importance of experience for a young knowledge worker and the ineffectiveness of MBA programs on younger students. He goes on to discuss his career as a teacher and to explain...
Lectures and lecturing; Nonprofit organizations; Hospitals; Management; Public administration; Business administration; Business enterprises; Labour Party (Great Britain); Government ownership; Physicians; Girl Scouts of the United States of...
Peter Drucker lectures about the social sector. During his talk, he discusses: the nonprofit organization as a community organization, the little difference in running a nonprofit and for profit hospital, the emergence of public administration and...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Venkataswamy, Govindappa; Aravind Eye Hospital (Madurai, India); Books; Hospitals; Medical care; India; Health; World Bank; Institutions
Dr. G. Venkataswamy, chairman of the Aravind Eye Hospital, writes Peter Drucker saying that he received Drucker's letter dated 19 April 1998 and the book "Adventures of a Bystander." He says that there is a need for efficient hospital managers in...
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Human services - United States - Management;
Nonprofit organizations - United States - Management;
Nonprofit organizations;
Management;
Management consulting;
Performance
In this audio recording Peter F. Drucker interviews Sister Carmella O’Donoghue in his audio book, “The Nonprofit Drucker.” This tape is part of the series, “Performance and Results.” Drucker begins by introducing Sister O’Donoghue as...
Amazon.com (Firm); Birthday parties; Birthdays; Books; Demographic transition; Economy and society; Electronic commerce; Internet; Interviews; Investments; Japan; Programs; Retirement; Social ecology; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Tables of contents
The booklet from Peter Drucker's 90th birthday celebration in Tokyo, Japan. The booklet contains the program of events, Drucker's video address transcript, and an interview between Drucker and Amazon.com.
Art, Asian; Art, Japanese; Bennington College; Business consultants; Business, culture and change; College teaching; Consulting contracts United States; Education, Higher; Harvard University; Management Japan; Landscape painting, Japanese; Oral...
Edited draft, copy of the oral history transcript of Peter Drucker’s interview. Peter Drucker discusses his first teaching job in the United States and his teaching technique. He further details how he became involved in business consulting in...
Lectures and lecturing; International trade; Exports; China; Automobile industry and trade; Blue collar workers; Labor; Hospitals; Money; Medicare; General Electric Company; Cost accounting; Banks and banking; Japan; Management; Hospitals; Capital...
During Peter Drucker's talk entitled "Productivity: What We Know About It What We Must - and Can - Do About It” he discusses how productivity in money, physical resources, and administrative personnel can improve the performance of both...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Nonprofit organizations; Medical care; Hospitals; Accounting
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding non-profit management he begins by discussing the final paper of the course in which the students examine either their own non-profit organization or a case from their textbook. He advises them that the...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Hoopes, James, 1944-; Authorship; Corporations; Labor unions; Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900-1993; Juran, J. M. (Joseph M.), 1904-; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David),...
Peter Drucker writes James Hoopes, professor at Babson College, saying that he has attached a list of his publications. He says that the tardy acceptance of ideas such as quality management or empowerment in the United States was primarily because...
Lectures and lecturing; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Medical care; Hospitals; Cancer; Public health; Women
Peter Drucker discusses the following during his lecture: anonymously involved people as those who know the hospitals the best; the institutionalized becoming dependent on the hospital; and the misclassification of malignant terms. The recording...
Lectures and lecturing; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Labor productivity; Hospitals; Schools; MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; California; Business enterprises
Peter Drucker discusses the following during his lecture: the importance of productivity figures to the non-business of public service institutions; the productivity crisis of hospitals; productivity as a measurement for the utilization of...
Claremont Graduate School; Economist Newspaper Limited; General Motors Corporation; Harvard Business School; Management consulting; New York University. Graduate School of Business Administration; Nonprofit organizations; Stanford University....
After reading a story about himself in the October 1, 1994 issue of The Economist, Drucker writes the editor, Bill Emmot, Esq., to show his appreciation, and clarify some statements made in the story.
International Rescue Committee; Management; Refugees; Letters
Leo Cherne, the executive director of the Research Institute of America, Inc., discusses the historical role of the International Rescue Committee in Eastern Europe and other areas and how management is badly needed in those places. Contains...
William A. Draves, president of the Learning Resources Network (LERN) thanks Drucker for the impact he has had on the organization and states its status. Contains Draves' original signature.
M. Douglas Kechter of Kerr, Kechter & Associates and a former Drucker student, updates him on what he has accomplished since his graduation in 1979, and thanks Drucker for his academic training.
