Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Authorship; Magazines; Books; Influence (Psychology); Family-owned business enterprises; Meetings; Decentralization in management; Performance; Consultants
Martin D. Davidson, president of Southern Pipe & Supply Company, Inc., writes Peter Drucker stating his belief that Drucker is the best authority on the management of a business. He explains that this was confirmed after meeting with James...
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...
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.
Congresses and conventions; Letters; Worthy, James C.
Drucker lets Professor Myron Roomkin of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University know that he will not be able to attend the symposium honoring James Worthy, and that he encloses a letter to him. Contains Drucker's...
Letters; Universities and colleges - United States - Administration; Urwick, Lyndall F. (Lyndall Fownes), 1891-1983; Worthy, James C.; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005
James C. Worthy has informed Peter Drucker of a personal interest held by Colonel Urwick, concerning problems with administration. Colonel Urwick is considering establishing a chair in this subject at a major university.
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...
Letters; Worthy, James C.; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Education; Continuing education; Nystrom, Paul H. (Paul Henry), 1878-1969; Schools; Education, Higher; United States; Europe; Teaching; Universities and colleges; College...
James C. Worthy writes Peter Drucker thanking him for his talk on "Education for a Free and Responsible Citizenship in Modern Society." Worthy says he found it highly useful in the preparation of his own paper on continuing education. Worthy...
Squires, James Radcliffe, 1917-1993; Greenwood, Ronald G.; Letters; Poetry; Adult education
Ron Greenwood writes to James Squires asking if he can use one of Squires’ poems in an upcoming paper. Squires sent back the letter with a handwritten note saying that he would be pleased if Greenwood was able to use the poem. The letter...
Authorship; Education - Curricula; Letters; Worthy, James C.; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005
Drucker agrees with James Worthy's curriculum and believes that the splintering of management learning is senseless. Drucker also states he is working on a book and congratulates Worthy on his "retirement." Contains Drucker's original signature.
Albert Williams, Executive Director of the Associated Colleges of Illinois submitted a proposal to James C. Worthy that addresses the problems of higher education. Worthy has asked that Drucker review proposal for a future meeting date.
Letters; Sears, Roebuck and Company; Union Pacific Railroad Company
James C. Worthy addresses the issue of industrial development and the role Sears will play in assisting small towns in the United States, such as Kearney, Nebraska, to move away from depending solely on agricultural resources.
James C. Worthy discusses the high sales of his publication, "Big Business and Free Men," in Chicago and notes that two reviews missed the point of his argument.
James C. Worthy mentions his research and writing appointment at Northwestern and his upcoming paper presentation at an annual meeting of the Academy in San Francisco.
James C. Worthy asks Peter Drucker to write a short note expressing condolences to widowed Alene Rubin, whose husband died just prior to their 50th wedding anniversary. Ed Rubin, deceased, had saved a clipping of an article written by Peter...
James C. Worthy describes the efforts to organize the Alpha Center for Public/Private Initiatives, Inc. and steps are being taken to establish the Beacon Fund, which will help provide financing for future enterprises. In addition, Worthy wishes to...
