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...
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...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Publishers and publishing; Authorship; Books; Technology; Corporations
Atsuo Ueda writes Peter Drucker congratulating him on his 'Watakushi no Rirekisho' which started in the morning. He informs Drucker that the first printing of "The Concept of the Corporation" was published on January 27th and that Diamond plans to...
Business Japan; Consultants; Education, Higher; Human capital; Nonprofit organizations; Organizational behavior; Oral biography; ServiceMaster Company
Bill Pollard, chairman of ServiceMaster, LLP discusses how Drucker influenced him personally and as an executive and how he helped ServiceMaster define itself as an organization. Page 12 is missing.
Authors and publishers; Manuscript preparation (Authorship); Letters
Drucker writes Dr. Guido Stein, Secretario General at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain regarding Stein's article about Drucker. He discusses the corrections he has made to Stein's manuscript and the publishing of other works about...
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...
Nonprofit organizations; Success; Money; Management; Knowledge workers; Rosenstein, Bruce
Peter Drucker discusses his thoughts on various topics including his observations of individuals who have made career decisions based upon being money-focused versus achievement-focused, and his own ability to continually re-invent himself. He goes...
Interviews; Letters; Church; Management; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Priests; Nonprofit organizations; Ordination of women; Leadership; Audiocassettes; Advisory boards; Buford, Bob; Voluntarism
Dolly Patterson, director of communications of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, writes Sidney E. Harris, dean of the Peter Drucker Graduate Management Center saying that she is sending him interview materials. A special issue number...
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...
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 the private and public sector, government consulting during World War II and his...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Books; Weather; Japan; Management; Political science; Banks and banking; Finance; Information revolution; Knowledge workers
Peter Drucker writes Mr. Atsuo Ueda, executive director of the Institute of Technologists, saying that the message to Japanese readers of "The Essential Drucker" is attached. In the message, Drucker discusses the role of government in...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Fund raising; Japan; Technologists; Schools; New York University. Graduate School of Business Administration; Investment banking; Weather; Authorship; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-
Peter Drucker writes Atsuo Ueda, director of the Foundation for the Promotion of Craft & Technology, sending him his best wishes for the success of the fundraising drive. He says that Ueda's new venture is absolutely essential for Japan in the new...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Kimizuka, Yoshirō, 1921-; Japan; Economy and society; Management; General Motors Corporation; Economic development; Capitalism; Banks and banking; Letters; Books; Depreciation; Saving and investment;...
A reprint of the Report of Denkitsushin University, volume 16; 1965, entitled, "The Question of Profit: to be or not to be" by Yoshirō Kimizuka. Major contents include: letters to and from Drucker related to the title, and a brief analysis of 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-; 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; Influence (Psychology); Association of Management Consulting Firms; Anniversaries; Interviews
Betsy Kovacs, president and CEO of the Association of Management Consulting Firms, writes Peter Drucker saying that the association would be honored if Drucker could participate in a videotape interview for the associations' 75th anniversary.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Translations; Authorship; Books; Publishers and publishing; Holidays; Interviews
Atsuo Ueda writes Peter Drucker saying that he is working on "The Next Society" and that he can finish it by the end of the month. He informs Drucker that he translated a work for the "Harvard Business Review" and asks how he should translate a...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Prefaces; Authorship; Books; Holidays; Manuscripts; Publishers and publishing; Magazines; Technology; Tables of contents; Technologists; Corporations
Atsuo Ueda writes Peter Drucker thanking him for the preface to "The Concept of the Corporation." Ueda goes on to say that he and Diamond are eager to produce a book on Drucker's writings on technology.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Authorship; Books; Technology; Prefaces; Publishers and publishing; Magazines; Leadership; Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha
Atsuo Ueda writes Peter Drucker saying that he has sent two copies of "Managing Technology." He informs Drucker that he was asked to write an article on Drucker's view on leadership in a bimonthly magazine for small businesses called "Doukeijuku...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Teachout, Terry; Authorship; Books; Biography; Publishers and publishing; Archives; Claremont Graduate University; Archival materials; Families
Peter Drucker writes Mr. Terry Teachout regarding Teachout's interest in writing an "intellectual biography" on Drucker. He says that he is impressed with Teachout's interest in wanting to pay attention to Drucker's early books, and says that he...
