Maciariello, Joseph A.; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Interviews; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; General Motors Corporation; ServiceMaster Foundation; Management; China
Professor Joseph Maciariello, Horton Professor of Management for the Drucker School of Management, at Claremont Graduate University, discusses Peter Drucker’s contributions to the ServiceMaster Foundation and its spread to China in the form of...
Lectures and lecturing; Accounting; Fiat automobiles; Japan; Retirement; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Labor supply; Personnel management; Cash flow; Technology; General Motors Corporation; Computers; Physicians; Business schools;...
During Peter Drucker's talk entitled "The Organization in Transition – Are the Traditional Functions Obsolete?" he discusses functions that remain centers of specialized knowledge and training, but cease to constitute the organizational base of...
Headhunters; Responsibility; Conflicts; General Electric Company; Deadlines; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; General Motors Corporation; Mass production; Moscow (Russia); Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935; Roosevelt, Franklin D....
Peter Drucker lectures to his students in an executive management course. Topics discussed during his lecture include: commitment to action and accountability, knowing what a new position requires, personality conflicts, General Electric, a “New...
Lectures and lecturing; Printing; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Government policy; New Deal, 1933-1939; Bower, Marvin, 1903-; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Miracles; Decision making; Sloan,...
Peter Drucker lectures to his class. During his talk, he discusses: the printing press and monasteries as copy plants, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, creative imitation, the difficulty of government abandonment, innovation and organized...
Lectures and lecturing; Hospitals; Schools; Statistics; Learning; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Decision making; Follett, Mary Parker, 1868-1933; Conflict management; General Electric Company; Welch, Jack, 1935-; Executive...
Peter Drucker lectures about effective decisions. During his talk, he discusses: groups and individuals in organizations, learning styles, the success rate of people decisions, Alfred Sloan and personnel decisions, Mary Parker Follett and the...
Lectures and lecturing; Raytheon Company; Defense industries; Electronics; Knowledge workers; Money; General Motors Corporation; Pensions; Risk; Uncertainty; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932; Sears,...
A student in Peter Drucker’s course on the next society makes a presentation on his company, Raytheon. He shares the company’s history and where it hopes to be in the future. Drucker critiques the presentation and talks about the book, "The...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Hoopes, James, 1944-; Authorship; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; General Motors Corporation; Wilson, Charles Erwin, 1890-1961; Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970; International...
Peter Drucker writes James Hoopes, professor of history at Babson College discussing Alfred Sloan of General Motors and Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers (UAW). The letter contains original handwritten edits and Drucker's signature.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Hoopes, James, 1944-; Books; Photographs; Newspapers; Nazis; Authorship; General Motors Corporation; Harvard Business School; Teaching; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966;...
Peter Drucker writes James Hoopes, professor of history at Babson College, correcting some factual mistakes in Hoopes' text and discusses his teaching career. James Hooper refers to James Hoopes. The letter contains edits.
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Greenwood, Ronald G.; Letters; General Motors Company; Railroads; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Smiddy, Harold F., 1900-1978
This letter was written by Peter Drucker to Ronald G. Greenwood to clarify some confusion about the term "managing by objectives and self-control". Drucker writes about the history of how the concepts behind the term came into play and who was...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Harper's magazine; Time management; Executives; Time; World War II; Presidents United States; McNamara, Robert S., 1916-; Crises; Planning; Meetings; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966
This is an article written by Peter Drucker discussing time management. In the article he outlines many reasons why executives have little control over how they spend their time. He then gives possible ways to have better time management. Some...
Management by objectives; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; General Motors Company; McGregor, Douglas; Mayo, Elton, 1880-1949; General Electric Company; Planning
This is an article written by R. Henry Migliore called "A History of Management by Objectives". He goes through, chronologically, how MBO came into existence and the individuals who played a role in its inception and proliferation. He also...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Greenwood, Ronald G.; Management by objectives; Smiddy, Harold F., 1900-1978; General Electric Company; Books; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Tarrant, John J.
This is an article written by Ron Greenwood. He discusses how Drucker was the first to coin the term "Management by Objectives", though possibly not the first to use it. Greenwood also explores Drucker's work with Harold Smiddy and General...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Greenwood, Ronald G.; Management by objectives; Smiddy, Harold F., 1900-1978; General Electric Company; Books; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Tarrant, John J.; Decentralization in...
This is an article written by Ron Greenwood. He discusses how Drucker was the first to coin the term "Management by Objectives", though possibly not the first to use it. Greenwood also explores Drucker's work with Harold Smiddy and General...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Smiddy, Harold F., 1900-1978; General Electric Company; Greenwood, Ronald G.; Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959; Social ecology; Books; Management by objectives; Decentralization in...
This is a paper about Drucker as a person, as well as his life and work. Individuals of merit who he has encountered through his life are mentioned, with emphasis on those who had a great impact on him. It then goes into detail about Drucker's work...
Books; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Management; Currency; Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Employees Recruiting; Risk; Decision making; White collar workers;...
This is a segment from World Executive's Digest from May of 1987. There are commendations about Drucker from the deans of 5 business schools in different areas of Asia, a condensed version of "The Frontiers of Management", and a note from Gaby...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Bell Telephone Company; American Can Company; Decentralization in management; General Electric Company; Information technology; Skeleton; Autonomy;...
This is an audio recording from day two of the Annual Peter F. Drucker Symposium, sponsored by the graduate school of business administration of New York University. The talk is about managing increasing complexity of large organizations. Drucker...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Poliomyelitis; Diagnosis; Questioning; Conflicts; Conflict management; Management; Follett, Mary Parker, 1868-1933; Engineers; Engineering; Psychology; Political science; Children; Physicians; Sloan,...
This is part three of an audio recording of a class on entrepreneurship and innovation taught by Peter Drucker. He begins by continuing a discussion from part two and states that if you have the right question you can bail out the wrong answer, but...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Shopping; Selling; Sales; Marketing; Marketing research; Markets; Customer services; Demography; Claremont (Calif.); Teenagers; Shoes; Supermarkets; Research; Japan; Italy; Tiffany and Company; Social...
This is part four of an audio recording of a class on entrepreneurship and innovation taught by Peter Drucker. In this segment he discusses the importance of tailoring a product to suit the customer demographic, and market segmentation. He uses...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Sales; Sales personnel; Hospitals; Women; Administration; Nurses; Quality control; Pasadena (Calif.); Church; Endowments; Master of business administration degree; Entrepreneurship; Citibank (New...
This is part five of an audio recording of a class on entrepreneurship and innovation taught by Peter Drucker. In this section he focuses most of his discussion on innovation. Drucker states that it is very important to have both management and...
This recording is a summary of “Managing for the Future: the 1990s and Beyond”. A narrator gives the summary followed by an interview with Peter Drucker. The recording covers 5 areas that will see social, economic, and business changes. Drucker...
