American Management Association; Organization theory; Letters
After reading James Worthy's paper on organization structure, Drucker asserts his preference to distinguish managerial autonomy based on an independent business unit, from managerial autonomy created purely by administrative decision.
Claremont (Calif.); Claremont Graduate School; Consultants; Japan; San Francisco (Calif.); Letters
Drucker sends his best wishes to James Worthy, and his wife, Millie, on their new home. He informs them that he moved to Claremont, California a year and a half ago and is now a professor at Claremont Graduate School. Drucker also updates them on...
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.
Drucker informs James Worthy that he will not be attending a meeting in Kansas City in August because he will be at his mountain retreat in Colorado. Signed Peter F. Drucker d.d.
Kellogg School of Management; Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.); Wood, Robert E. (Robert Elkington), 1879-1969; Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Worthy, James C.
James Worthy, now a professor at Northwestern University, is congratulated by Drucker on his new position. Drucker also states that he enjoyed Worthy's paper on General Wood and his approach to management. Signed Peter F. Drucker (d.d.).
Authors and publishers; Kantrow, Alan M., 1947-; Public relations consultants; Wall Street journal; Letters
Drucker feels he is not the right person to write on a subject he is not the inventor of in the Wall Street Journal. He also suggests that James Worthy contact Alan Kantrow, a senior editor, at the Harvard Business Review, to get Worthy's article...
Drucker congratulates James Worthy on his new Wang word processor. He also confirms breakfast with him in New York. Contains Drucker's original signature.
Competition; Computers; Control Data Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation; Japan; Letters
Drucker tells James Worthy he is impressed with the prospectus for the Alpha Center for Public/Private Initiatives, Inc., but declines to take part in any capacity of it, because he is very busy. On a different matter, Drucker claims that Control...
Personal health; Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management; Political campaigns; Letters
Drucker is delighted to hear that James Worthy's operation was successful and states his own health issues. He also mentions he would like to know how Worthy's daughter, Joan, is doing in her election campaign and lets Worthy know the board of his...
Authors and publishers; Authorship; Letters; University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Press
Drucker asks if James Worthy's daughter, Joan, has won re-election and delights at the news that the University of Illinois Press wants to publish Worthy's papers. Drucker states he is beginning a new book which will primarily be about emerging...
Congresses and conventions; Letters; Social organization
Drucker is unhappy that he will not be able to attend a symposium honoring James Worthy' work and career in person. He goes on to say that he has known Worthy for more than forty years and that Worthy was the first person to point out the...
After learning that Tanja Eichenberger, a European university student, and stepdaughter of an old Swiss friend, is interested in attending the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Drucker asks Orlene Barger to find out if the school...
Accounting; Aerojet-General Corporation. Von Karman Center. Life Systems Division; Business cycles; Business; Conflict management; Mathematical models; McGregor, Douglas; Mechanics, Analytic; United States. Dept. of Defense. Independent Research...
One of two edited draft copies, contains corrections by Bradley Jacobs of his oral history interview. Bradley Jacobs, former Orange County assessor, discusses his professional relationship with Peter Drucker and how Jacobs applied his theories in...
Authors and publishers; HarperCollins (Firm); Transaction Publishers; Letters
After promising Mary E. Curtis, of Transaction Publishers, new prefaces for the planned reissue of two of his books, Drucker states he is not sure how soon the books will be available because Harper Collins is still selling them.
Drucker tells Tanja Eichenberger to contact Orlene Barger of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management for information regarding admission policies.
Art, Asian; Claremont Graduate School; Executive management; Master of business administration degree; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); Resignation; Letters
Drucker's resignation letter as lecturer in Oriental art at Pomona College due to his commitment to the new Advanced Executive MBA program at Clarement Graduate School.
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.
Drucker thanks Henry Y. Hwang for endowing the Dean's position at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management. Contains Drucker's original signature.
