Drucker Centennial Week Celebration

Monday, November 2 to Sunday, November 8, 2009

Celebrating the Life & Continuing the Work of Peter F. Drucker

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Wednesday November 4
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Events:

Conversation with Charles Handy - 9:00am-10:30am
Frances Hesselbein Live on Campus! - 3:30pm-5:00pm


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Conversation with Charles Handy

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 — 9:00am to 10:30am.

This event is full - please go through the registration process to be put on the waiting list.

To register: Click here.


Event Description: Charles will meet with MBAs and some alumni of the Odyssey Still Life course he taught in 2008 as a Visiting Drucker Fellow. Topic for today's conversation will include the Still Life pieces, plus 'What Peter Drucker Taught Me.' Charles will speak for part of the time, then engage the group in a fertile conversation. Charles will be joined by his wife, Liz Handy. Liz is an accomplished photographer and worked along with Charles in the Odyssey Course.

 

Venue & Location

The Founders Room- Honnold Library
800 N Dartmouth Ave
Claremont, CA 91711.
Open to public. Space is limited.
Registration is required.


For more information: E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Phone: (909) 607-6007.

Background

Charles Handy is a globally renowned business expert and is often regarded as Britain’s greatest management thinker. He is the author of many business and management books, including: Understanding Organizations, The Future of Work, and The Gods of Management, among others.

Mr. Handy is a co-founder of the London Business School, the first business school in the United Kingdom. He has been an executive, a theorist, a management thinker and a student of business all his life. In 2008, Mr. Handy taught the Odyssey Course at The Drucker School while serving as a Scholar in Residence.


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Frances Hesselbein Live on Campus!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 — 3:30pm – 5:00pm
To register: Click here.

Event Description: "The Crucible Generation: Hope of the Future."

Venue & Location

The Drucker School

Ron W. Burkle Family Building
1021 North Dartmouth Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711 (Map)

Open to public. Free of charge.Registration us required.


For more information: E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Phone: (909) 607-6007.

Background

Frances Hesselbein is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management) and served as its founding President. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. The award recognized her leadership as CEO of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. (1976-1990), her role as the founding President of the Drucker Foundation, and her service as "a pioneer for women, diversity, and inclusion.“

Frances serves on many nonprofit and private sector corporate boards, including the Board of the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, New York, the Veterans of Corporation Advisory Board, the Boards of the Center for Social Initiative at the Harvard Business School, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Management at the Kennedy School, and U.C.S.D. graduate school of International Relations and Pacific Studies. She is the recipient of twenty honorary doctoral degrees.