Received a Ph.D. in international law from Frankfurt University. Moved to London after two of his essays – one on Friedrich Julius Stahl, a leading German conservative philosopher, and a second, The Jewish Question in Germany – were banned and burned by the Nazi government. Married Doris Schmitz and moved to the United States as correspondent for several British newspapers, including the Financial Times. Began teaching economics part time at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

Titles published in the 1930s 

• The End of Economic Man

• The Future of Industrial Man
• Concept of the Corporation

Joined the faculty of New York University as professor of management, where he would work for 21 years. Began his formal consulting practice and took on a major assignment with Sears Roebuck. Published The Practice of Management, his first popular book about management, in 1954. He described it as “the foundation of a discipline.”

Titles published in the 1950s 

• The New Society
• The Practice of Management
• America’s Next Twenty Years
• The Landmarks of Tomorrow

• Managing for Results
• The Effective Executive
• The Age of Discontinuity

Authored his magnum opus, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. Became the Clarke Professor of Social Sciences and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California and a lecturer in Oriental Art at Pomona College. Appointed to the Board of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Began a 20-year tenure as a monthly columnist for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

 

Titles published in the 1970s 

• Technology, Management and Society
• Men, Ideas and Politics
• Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
• The Unseen Revolution
• An Introductory View of Management
• People and Performance
• Adventures of a Bystander
• Song of the Brush: Japanese Paintings from the Sansō Collection (contributing author)

• Managing in Turbulent Times
• Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays
• The Changing World of the Executive
• The Last of All Possible Worlds (fiction)
• The Temptation to Do Good (fiction)
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• The Frontiers of Management
• The New Realities

Delivered the prestigious Godkin Lecture at Harvard University in 1994. The Drucker Center became the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management (today called the Leader to Leader Institute) was established in 1990. The Drucker Archives was inaugurated in 1999. Published 10 new titles.

• Managing the Nonprofit Organization
• Managing for the Future
• The Ecological Vision
• Post-Capitalist Society
• The Pension Fund Revolution
• Managing in a Time of Great Change
• The Leader of the Future
• Drucker on Asia
• Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management
• Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Taught his last course in the spring of 2002, at the age of 93. The Drucker Graduate School of Management became the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. Gave his name to the Peter F. Drucker Academy of China, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to bringing Drucker’s values and ideas to the burgeoning numbers of Chinese entrepreneurs and managers. Drucker was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 2002.

• A Functioning Society
• Classic Drucker
• The Essential Drucker
• The Effective Executive in Action, with Joseph A. Maciariello
• The Daily Drucker, with Joseph A. Maciariello
• Managing in the Next Society
• Managing in a Time of Great Change
• Management (revised and updated)

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