biography
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Drucker, Peter (Ferdinand)
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| lived:
| (1909– )
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| biography:
| Writer and management consultant, born in Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to the USA in 1937, and had a varied early career as an economist, journalist, and philosophy professor before settling into a career teaching management and social sciences at New York University (1950–71) and the Drucker School of Management (Claremont, California) (1971). A consultant to major corporations, he also wrote prolifically on a wide range of topics from social and political issues to business analysis. He is best known for changing the teaching and practice of management, and helping establish management as a professional discipline through his many books, articles, films, and audio-cassettes, including Practice of Management (1954) and Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1974). These reached a wide audience, and many of his ideas have become commonplace, such as business as the representative institution of industrial society, marketing as central to management's task, and management by objectives as superior to management by control. |
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