Lectures and lecturing; Management; Nonprofit organizations; Church and state; Volunteer
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding managing the non-profit organization he begins by discussing turnaround situations and stresses the importance of focusing on goals and outcomes; making an analogy to curing illnesses in the human body. ...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Chrysler automobile - History; Chrysler Corporation; Chrysler, Walter P. (Walter Percy), 1875-1940; DeSoto automobile; Education; Cross, Dolores E.; Chicago State University
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding the effective manager he begins by discussing what he deems turnaround experts in turnaround situations. He then delves into the history of the Chrysler Company and how Lee Iacocca was able to turn the...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Kimizuka, Yoshirō, 1921-; Profit; General Motors Corporation; Taxation; Corporations; Wages; Executives; Employee stock options; Liberman, E. G. (Evseĭ Grigor'evich); Soviet Union; Charts,...
The 1966 volume 20 reprint of the report of Denkitsushin University entitled, "Judge Not" by Yoshirō Kimizuka and Peter Drucker. It includes a review by E. Liberman. The reprint contains an original "CGU Admissions" stamp.
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...
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, with notes 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 the...
Ray Houdtzagers, a program manager for the American Management Association, thanks Drucker for his satellite broadcast presentation and includes comments from some of the viewers. Contains Houdtzagers' original signature.
Accounting; Aerojet-General Corporation. Von Karman Center. Life Systems Division; Business cycles; Business; Conflict management; Mathematical models; McGregor, Douglas; Mechanics, Analytic; Oral biography; United States. Dept. of Defense....
Bradley Jacobs, former Orange County assessor, discusses his professional relationship with Peter Drucker. Jacobs describes how he applied Drucker's theories in the public and private sector.
This document describes the planning steps to hold a reception given in honor of Peter Drucker as a way of introducing the Cooperative For Assistance & Relief Everywhere, Inc. (CARE) Corporate Council to the New York corporate community in an...
CARE Inc.; Letters; Economic development; Organizational behavior
George H. Radcliffe, of CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere), sends a memorandum to the executive staff highlighting the major issues that arose from the Drucker seminar. Memorandum contains handwritten notes.
Dolores Cross, president of Morris Brown College, reflects on her personal and professional relationship with Drucker for the Peter F. Drucker Archive. Contains Cross' original signature.
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.
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.
American Cancer Society; Award presentations; Awards
The program from the American Cancer Society's eleventh Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Memorial Award dinner honoring William J. Flynn, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Mutual of America for his "dedication and unfailing commitment to...
Lectures and lecturing; Management; Nonprofit organizations; Medical care; Hospitals; Accounting
During Peter Drucker’s lecture regarding non-profit management he begins by discussing the final paper of the course in which the students examine either their own non-profit organization or a case from their textbook. He advises them that the...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Letters; Mathematics; Management; Operations research
This is a letter from Peter Drucker to Melvin L. Hurni. It discusses the use of math and the place of a mathematician in OR&S. Drucker believes that Operations Research and Synthesis is not just the application of mathematics to business, it is...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Operations research; Budget; Letters
This is a letter written by Peter Drucker for Mel Hurni. He discusses how important writing the budget is for the future of the Operations Research and Synthesis program. Drucker believes Mel should use it as an opportunity to create better...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; General Electric Company; Consultants; Operations research; Business; Development and underdevelopment; Rayon; Bell Telephone Company; Defense industries; Paper industry; Life insurance; Technology;...
This is a series of letters and the report, "Typical Business Problems Symptomatic of a Need for the Development of Alternative Theories of the Business", which they correspond to. The report is written by Peter Drucker for Mel Hurni. Its purpose...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966; Bell Telephone Company; American Can Company; Decentralization in management; General Electric Company; Information technology; Skeleton; Autonomy;...
This is an audio recording from day two of the Annual Peter F. Drucker Symposium, sponsored by the graduate school of business administration of New York University. The talk is about managing increasing complexity of large organizations. Drucker...
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Poliomyelitis; Diagnosis; Questioning; Conflicts; Conflict management; Management; Follett, Mary Parker, 1868-1933; Engineers; Engineering; Psychology; Political science; Children; Physicians; Sloan,...
This is part three of an audio recording of a class on entrepreneurship and innovation taught by Peter Drucker. He begins by continuing a discussion from part two and states that if you have the right question you can bail out the wrong answer, but...
Management by objectives;
Management by objectives - Programmed instruction;
Activity-based costing;
Management consulting;
Management
This is an audio recording summarizing the American Management Association’s audio book, “Managing By Objectives.” This is the tenth chapter of the book entitled “Avoiding Pitfalls.” The narrator begins by describing multiple ways that...
