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...
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...
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...
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...
Peter Drucker discusses his thoughts on various topics including the importance of experience for a young knowledge worker and the ineffectiveness of MBA programs on younger students. He goes on to discuss his career as a teacher and to explain...
Von Bernuth, Robert D.; Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Birthdays; Claremont Graduate School; College teaching; College students; Leadership
R. D. (Bob) von Bernuth, the director of the School of Planning, Design, and Construction, at Michigan State University, writes Peter Drucker congratulating him on the occasion of his 95th birthday. He recalls an incident he had as a student in...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Universities and colleges; Cost; Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); Germany; France; Art; Psychology; Computers; Diagnosis; Mental illness; Children; Interviews; Oral biography; Linkletter, Karen E.
This is a section of an oral history interview with Peter Drucker, conducted by Karen Linkletter of the Claremont Graduate University. Drucker discusses the cost of university tuition, art history, and the diagnosis of mental illness in children....
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Publishers and publishing; Books; Authorship; Maxwell, John C., 1947-; Interpersonal relations
Kristen Lucas, managing editor of Nelson Books, writes Peter Drucker asking if he would consider writing an endorsement for John Maxwell's book, "Winning with People: Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time." She informs...
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.
Employees Recruiting; McKinsey and Company; Letters
After hearing that Claremont Graduate School will name its new center after Drucker, Marvin Bower of McKinsey & Company, Inc. discusses exploring the center as a possible recruiting place and congratulates him for his honor. Contains Bower's...
M. Douglas Kechter of Kerr, Kechter & Associates and a former Drucker student, updates him on what he has accomplished since his graduation in 1979, and thanks Drucker for his academic training.
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Interviews; Simon, Hermann; Consultants; Management; Management consultants; Philosophy; Vienna; Germany; Education Germany; Human capital
Hermann Simon is Chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners, an international consulting company. In this interview Simon discusses his relationship with Peter Drucker and what he has learned from his teachings. He maintains that the most important thing...
Sidney E. Harris, former dean of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center, reflects on Drucker's mentorship and how it influenced his growth as a leader. Contains Harris' original signature.
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...
A group of selected students from the course “Morality and Leadership” present what they learned from the class to an audience. The students, whose backgrounds include India, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines and an American who lived in...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Buford, Bob; Church; Leadership; Medical care; American Management Association; Clergy; Professional employees; Volunteers; Quality control
Peter Drucker writes Bob Buford, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer, of Buford Television, Inc., summing up the day they shared discussing the creation of a new mode by Evangelicals. The letter contains edits.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Teachers; Teaching; Mathematics; Schools
Peter Drucker writes Mr. Stacey Peters' mathematics students at Plainfield High School discussing his school background and the importance of learning mathematics. The letter contains notations.
Authorship; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Management; Books; Publishers and publishing; Business; Activity-based costing; Nonprofit organizations; Corporate governance
The editor's afterword of "The Essential Drucker on Management" written by Atsuo Ueda. In addition, Ueda writes Drucker on June 14, 2000 saying that he agrees to restore the whole appendix.
