Drucker Centennial Week 2009
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A Student's Perspective—MBA student Luis Carlos Pelaez tells us about his experience at Drucker Week 2009
The Drucker Centennial marks the celebration of 100th birthday of Peter Drucker, the father of modern management. Drucker Centennial Week 2009 commemorated Peter Drucker’s legacy in a series of special events featuring prominent management thinkers who visited our campus in Claremont to speak about their experiences with Peter Drucker, and how his insights into leadership, innovation, organizational effectiveness, economy and society continue to shape today’s fast-changing world.
Drucker Week kicked-off on Monday with Ken Blanchard, whose message focused on how we can all be more successful if we frame the challenges we face as opportunities. During the next several days, speakers followed with discussions on Drucker’s unique perspectives – seeing challenges as opportunities, leading by objective, and turning the management pyramid hierarchy upside down as part of servant leadership, to name a few.
The celebration of Drucker principles vis-à-vis today's turbulent and uncertain times culminated with speaker Jim Collins on Saturday, Drucker Day. His message was clear: the next generation of leaders must embody Drucker’s principles and be ready to tackle the uncertainties of today’s global economic . He also put the magnitude of Drucker's work into perspective when he mentioned that Drucker had only published 1/3 of his 35 books by the age of 65, and when he asked him which book he considered his best, Drucker answered with, "the next one that I have not yet written."
For students, alumni, faculty and quests, Drucker week left a lasting impact on the challenges that lie ahead, and how important each of our roles is in the bigger picture of managing our world and our own lives.
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New Nonprofit Management Concentration
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The Drucker School of Management now offers a new concentration in Nonprofit Management. The concentration is designed to help students develop the skills to more effectively manage and lead both local and global nonprofit organizations. It focuses on the business aspects of managing the nonprofit enterprise, including the marketing, fund-raising, financing and accounting necessary for sustaining growth and creating change within the nonprofit sector.
Students will build skills in the following areas: organizational, board and financial governance; management and administration; leadership; legal and intellectual property issues; organizational development; organizational design; and entrepreneurial issues including marketing and plan development.
This new area of emphasis has been developed in response to student and industry demand. The courses included in this concentration emphasize the relevance of the nonprofit sector in today’s economy and the importance of building a foundational understanding of how it operates for the public good on a local, national and international basis.
The Nonprofit Management Concentration consists of 12 units in the MBA program and 8 units in the EMBA program. Initial courses offered in this concentration area are: Accounting and Finance for Nonprofits, Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance, Theory and Practice of Arts Management, Arts and Cultural Policy, Consulting Clinic, Marketing for Nonprofits and Nonprofit Law.The concentration is available in the following programs: MBA, MA in Arts Management, EMBA and MA in Management. Please visit our Nonprofit Management page for additional information. Other concentrations offered at the Drucker School are Strategy, Finance, Leadership and Global Management.
The new Nonprofit Management Concentration will emphasize “knowledge relevant to critical issues affecting management practice” for nonprofits. This is in keeping with both Peter Drucker’s work in the nonprofit sector, as well as the current research interests of many of the faculty at the Drucker School and CGU.
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Drucker School’s On the Road program continues to provide an opportunity for prospective business students to meet with Drucker representatives as part of the World MBA Tour. The next stops for Drucker recruiting team is the World MBA Tour in India, where Assistant Director of Admissions Brandon Tuck will visit Mumbai and Bangalore.
The Drucker MBA Tour in India will start on Monday, November 30 when Brandon will be at Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace & Tower to meet with prospective students. This evening recruiting and networking event will take place between 6-9 pm, and is the perfect chance for students to learn more about the innovative management programs offered at the Drucker School, including our MBA, Financial Engineering, Executive Management, and unique joint and dual degree options.
On Saturday, December 5 Brandon will be in Bangalore at the Taj Residency in Karnataka between 3-6 pm. If you live or are visiting that area, don’t miss the chance to talk to Brandon and learn more about how the Drucker School can help you become a leader in your business area.
The Drucker School attracts students from across the United States and around the world to experience our innovative management degree programs, Peter Drucker's philosophy of management as a liberal art, and our commitment to training effective managers and ethical leaders not only for business, but also for government and the nonprofit sector. To see if we'll be in your city in the coming months, visit us at Drucker On the Road.
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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
—Peter F. Drucker
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The Drucker School is accepting applications for Spring and Fall 2010
November 13-14
2009 Net Impact Conference
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November 17
Drucker School Information Session
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November 19
Drucker Centennial Event —Global Forum, Austria
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When Ford Motor Co. reported a third-quarter profit of nearly $1 billion this week, analysts cited a number of factors, including the government’s cash-for-clunkers program and the automaker’s ability to siphon business from its bankrupt and bailed-out rivals. But to continue its turnaround, Ford must do something far more fundamental: prove over the long term that it can provide customers with products that they genuinely value. In this edition of Drucker Apps, you’ll find tools to help you understand why creating a customer should be the primary concern of every business, why consumers themselves are the only ones who really know what they value, why companies often misunderstand the market, and why hard work doesn’t necessarily mean a great product. These insights—at once timely and timeless—are based on the ideas and ideals of the late Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management .
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