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...
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.
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...
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...
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; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Siemens, Werner von, 1816-1892; Deutsche Bank; Management; Bankruptcy; United States. Office of the Vice President; Authorship
Peter Drucker writes Atsuo Ueda, of the Keizai Koho Center, with a story about Werner Siemens, founder of the Siemens company, and his cousin Georg Siemens, of the Deutsche Bank. He explains the role of the vice president of the United States and...
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; Greenwich Research Associates; Meetings; Consultants; Consulting firms; Smith, Rodger F.; Research
Allan F. Munro, executive vice president of Greenwich Research Associates, writes Peter Drucker reflecting on the meeting with him. The letter contains notations.
Letters; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Authorship; Books; Translations; UNIQLO (Firm); Brand name products; Universities and colleges; China
Atsuo Ueda writes Peter Drucker saying that three copies of the draft of volume 3 is reaching him by airmail. He asks that Drucker add, delete, and change items he finds necessary. Ueda goes on to talk about the company "Uniqlo" and its factories...
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...
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...
Stahl, Friedrich Julius, 1802-1861; Conservatism; Germany; Religion; Philosophy
The English translation of Peter Drucker's monograph, "Friedrich Julius Stahl Konservative Staatslehre und Geschichtliche Entwicklung," by Martin Chalmers.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Books; Publishers and publishing; Translations; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-
Peter Drucker writes Atsuo Ueda saying that there are a number of publishers who are interested in "The Essential Drucker" and asks Ueda for an acceptable fee for the work that he put into the volumes. The letter contains edits.
James C. Worthy discusses the outcome of his daughters bid for state election. Worthy cites numerous examples, such as the difficulty of split ticket voting, her veto of a tuition tax bill passage bill passed by the city council and her opposition...
Lyndall Urwick discusses numerous aspects of business management and organization as well as employee relations within the General Electric Company. In addition, he shares his views on Drucker's publication, "The Practice of Management."
Business; Business Japan; Letters; China; Economy and society; Europe; Manual workers; Nonprofit organizations; Teacher-student relationships; United States - Politics and government
Frances Hesselbein of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management faxes a copy of Drucker's remarks on "The New Priorities" that was presented to the Economic Club of Washington on November 14, 1991. Contains handwritten note.
Los Angeles Times (Firm); Newspaper editors; Newspaper publishing California Los Angeles; Oral biography; Times Mirror Company
Mark Willes CEO of Times Mirror Corporation and Editor in Chief of the Los Angeles Times, discusses specific suggestions Peter Drucker made as a consultant to the Los Angeles Times. Willes reflects on Peter Drucker as writer and a thinker.
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; De Kluyver, Cornelis A.; Gratitude; Philanthropists; Endowments; Itō, Masatoshi, 1924-; Claremont Graduate University; Schools; Japan; Itō Yōkadō Gurūpu; Business enterprises
Peter Drucker writes Cornelis de Kluyver, dean of the Peter F. Drucker & Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, expressing his admiration and gratitude for obtaining the Ito endowment. Drucker discusses his relationship with Ito and says Ito...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Itō, Masatoshi, 1924-; Japan; Demography; Emigration and immigration; Population; Banks and banking; Saving and investment; China; Peasant uprisings; Iraq; Fish culture; Petroleum
Peter Drucker writes Masatoshi Ito, founder and honorary chairman of the Ito Yokado Group, with his thoughts on the main developments that will shape Japan and the world of 2010. He discusses demographics, commercial banking, China, mid-eastern...
Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Books; Interviews; Scheduling; Itineraries; Ueda, Atsuo, 1938-
Peter Drucker writes Atsuo Ueda, executive director of the Institute of Technologists, congratulating him on the completion of volume one of "The Essential Drucker" and expressing his delight over the success of the preparation of the Institute. ...
