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.
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Corporations; Books; General Motors automobiles; General Motors Company; General Motors Corporation; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Big business; Management; Decentralization in...
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...
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; 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...
Lectures and lecturing; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Success; Student exchange programs; Measurement; Behavior modification; Rorschach Test; Sales personnel; Vail, Theodore Newton, 1845-1920; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard),...
Peter Drucker discusses the following during his lecture: the public service student exchange; the English classroom; defining your objectives; the important thing to teach a salesman; quantum changes in size; hypochondriacs; asking what is our...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Monopolies; Economists; Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896; Dynamite; Nobel prizes - History; Telephone History; Hosiery, Nylon; Nylon; Rayon; E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company; Education; Sony Corporation; Human...
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding the change leader he begins by talking about exploiting success. He then shares with the class four different stories and then asks his students to think about how the companies and people in the stories...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Nobel, Alfred Bernhard, 1833-1896; Harvard business review book series; Dynamite; Nicholas Nickelby; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding the change leader he begins by revisiting the previous week’s lecture, which dealt with Alfred Nobel and the invention of dynamite. He goes on to elaborate on why Nobel was able to exploit his success...
An article from the Archiv für Rechts-und Sozialphilosophie (Archive for Law and Social Philosophy) on Peter Drucker’s work, “Friedrich Julius Stahl Konservative Staatslehre und Geschichtliche Entwicklung.” The article is written in German...
Peter Drucker's monograph, "Die Rechtfertigung des Völkerrechts aus dem Staatswillen," ("The Justification of International Law and the Will of the State") written in German.
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Nakauchi, Isao; Oriental art; Linguistics; Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Evolution
During Peter Drucker's lecture regarding knowledge work and knowledge workers, he begins by taking questions from the class that are pertinent to the course. The first student asks Drucker about an article in “Inc.” magazine in which Drucker...
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; 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...
