OUR STORY

The Drucker Institute began in 1999 as the Peter F. Drucker Archives, with a basic mission to house the papers of this prolific author. This is still an integral part of what we do, and we’re in the process of digitizing our holdings for easy online access. (Click here to enter our archival collection.)

In 2006, the Institute’s Board of Advisors and Claremont Graduate University took a crucial step: They decided the best way to keep Drucker’s legacy alive was not simply to look backward (through old manuscripts and other documents) but to look forward (by building on Drucker’s wisdom and applying it to important contemporary issues).

Their mandate, in other words, was to transform the repository into a think tank and an action tank whose purpose is to advance the ideas and ideals of the father of modern management.

The Institute is a campus-wide resource of Claremont Graduate University and is closely aligned with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, where Peter Drucker taught for 35 years and which continues to produce effective managers and ethical leaders for business, government and civil society.