November 11th, 2005
Management Guru Peter Drucker, 95, Dies
By ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - Peter F. Drucker, revered as the father of modern management for his numerous books and articles stressing innovation, entrepreneurship and strategies for dealing with a changing world, died Friday, a spokesman for Claremont Graduate University said. He was 95. Drucker died of natural causes at his home in Claremont, east of Los Angeles, said spokesman Bryan Schneider.
"He is purely and simply the most important developer of effective management and of effective public policy in the 20th century," former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday. "In the more than 30 years that I've studied him, talked with him and learned from him, he has been invaluable and irreplaceable." Drucker was considered a management visionary for his recognition that dedicated employees are key to the success of any corporation, and marketing and innovation should come before worries about finances. His motivational techniques have been used by executives at some of the biggest companies in corporate America, including Intel Corp. and Sears, Roebuck & Co.
In 2002, President Bush honored Drucker with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Business Week magazine hailed him as "the most enduring management thinker of our time," and Forbes magazine featured him on a 1997 cover under the headline: "Still the Youngest Mind." He has been called "the world's foremost pioneer of management theory" and a champion of concepts such as management by objective and decentralization. In the early 1940s, General Motors invited Drucker to study its inner workings. That experience led to his 1946 management book "Concept of the Corporation." He went on to write more than 30 books.
He's very much an intellectual leader, and that's not common," said D. Quinn Mills, a professor at Harvard Business School who shared the podium at several conferences with Drucker. Quinn described Drucker's insights as rare.
After the big stock market decline of October 1987, Drucker said he had expected it, "and not for economic reasons, but for aesthetic and moral reasons." "The last two years were just too disgusting a spectacle," Drucker said. "Pigs gorging themselves at the trough are always a disgusting spectacle, and you know it won't last long." Drucker termed Wall Street brokers "a totally non-productive crowd which is out for a lot of easy money." "When you reach the point where the traders make more money than investors, you know it's not going to last," he said. "The average duration of a soap bubble is known. It's about 26 seconds," Drucker said. "Then the surface tension becomes too great and it begins to burst. "For speculative crazes, it's about 18 months."
Drucker was born in Vienna, and educated there and in England. He received a doctorate in international law while working as a newspaper reporter in Frankfurt, Germany. He remained in Germany until 1933, when one of his essays was banned by the Nazi regime. For a time, he worked as an economist for a bank in London, then moved to the United States in 1937. He taught politics and philosophy at Bennington College in Vermont and for more than 20 years was a professor of management at New York University's graduate business school.
Beginning in 1971, he taught a course for midcareer executives at Claremont Graduate School in California, which named its business school after him. Drucker's management books included: "The Effective Executive," 1966; "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices," 1974; and "Managing in a Time of Great Change," 1995. In 2004, he put out "The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done." He also wrote scores of articles for the academic and popular press, and two novels and a 1979 autobiography, "Adventures of a Bystander."
While much of his career was spent studying employees in the workplace, Drucker also dedicated time to the service sector, founding the New York-based Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, known since 2003 as the Leader to Leader Institute. Jack Beatty, a senior editor at Atlantic Monthly magazine who wrote the book "The World According to Peter Drucker," described the management guru as "uproariously funny (with) a great rapport. You ask him a question and it can go on for some time."
Drucker is survived by his wife, Doris, and four children.
Story courtesy of AP News
On May 30th, 2006 Anaheim University presented the Global Learning Partner of the Decade Award to Citigroup. Employees of companies such as Citigroup who have formed Global Learning Partnerships with Anaheim University receive discounted tuition. According to International Liaison Officer David Bracey, "Some of our most motivated students are from Citigroup, and we are pleased to honor Citigroup for their efforts in providing educational opportunities to their employees. Each year we enjoy the opportunity to make orientation presentations for the Online International MBA program through the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business to their new recruits in Tokyo, and Citigroup has been extremely helpful in their efforts to arrange this." Anaheim University Chair of the Board of Advisors, Dr. Clive L. Grafton (Pictured right) presented the award in Japan to Citigroup Vice-President for Training, Larry Purdy (Pictured Left) at the City Club of Tokyo.
Several other awards were presented and numerous announcements were made at the graduation and award ceremony during the evening, including the announcement of the Corporate Sponsor of the Decade Award being awarded to Coca-Cola for its ongoing support of Anaheim University events and activities. According to Mr Bracey, Coca-Cola has provided the University with over 20,000 drinks and Coca-Cola goods over the past decade.
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The Cherry Blossom Gala was held at the Beverly Hills Hotel from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm on Monday, March 23rd, 2009, which would have been Akira Kurosawa's 99th birthday, kicking off a year-long tribute to the late, great Japanese film director. The Beverly Hills Hotel is the same location where Akira Kurosawa stayed on his 80th birthday, just 3 days before he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences. A black-tie event, the Cherry Blossom Gala was organized to celebrate the launch of the Akira Kurosawa School of Film, an online Film School, established by Anaheim University to inspire and develop film makers the world over.
The ground-breaking masterpieces of the Academy Award winning Film maker, Film Producer and Screenwriter Akira Kurosawa (March 23, 1910 - Sept 6, 1998) have inspired such screenplay writers and film directors as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. If it were not for his influence, classic movies such as Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven, A Fistful of Dollars, and many others may not have come about.The Cherry Blossom Gala featured:
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a special tribute to the late American TV and Film Actress and Star of the 1988 film Tokyo Pop Ms. Carrie Hamilton (daughter of Comedienne Carol Burnett), as well as a few important individuals who have influenced and contributed to the development of the Akira Kurosawa School of Film- a display of original kimonos from Kurosawa's award-winning film "Ran"
A special live performance by the Young Musicians Foundation conducted by world-renowned Japanese female conductor Tomomi Nishimoto (selected by Newsweek Japan as one of the world's most influential Japanese)
a Japanese kimono show presented by Jane Aiko Yamano and Yamano Gakuen- an exhibition of Japanese art and culture
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