Drucker Archives
The Drucker Institute, in cooperation with the Honnold/Mudd Library at the Claremont Colleges, maintains a collection of records donated by Peter Drucker and others with whom he interacted. The archives’s purpose is to support research related to Drucker’s life and work.
This growing, searchable online replica of the archives’s physical records contains more than 8,000 items, including articles by or about Peter Drucker, images and magnetic media, awards, ephemera and realia.
Access to the Drucker Archives on the campus of Claremont Graduate University is available by appointment. Please contact our archivist at druckerarchives@cgu.edu or 909-607-9212 to make arrangements.
If you have Drucker-related material that you would like to contribute to the archives, including personal correspondence, please also contact the archivist.
Top Picks from the Archives
- Original Acknowledgments to Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
- “Soren Kierkegaard: Or, How is Human Existence Possible?”
- Consulting report for Coca-Cola
- Letter from former Herman Miller CEO Max DePree
- Drucker’s last lecture at CGU (March 2005 on the social sector)
- Syllabus from Drucker course in the 1970s
- Monograph on Friedrich Julius Stahl
- Letter from David Rockefeller
- Postcard to Cleveland Indians President Peter Bavasi
- Transcript of César Chávez after meeting with Drucker
Other Holdings
The Drucker Exchange
From 2010-2014, the Drucker Institute published the Drucker Exchange, a blog about effective management and responsible leadership. From 2009-2010, the Institute published Drucker Apps, first an email newsletter and later a blog, with a similar focus. We have archived all 1,201 posts from these two publications.
Kenneth Hopper Papers On Management
The Kenneth Hopper Papers on Management, donated by Kenneth and Claire Hopper, comprises his records from a long career in industrial management and consultancy in the U.K., the U.S., Ireland, Continental Europe and Japan. A major part of the collection includes original correspondence, manuals, memoirs and other documents related to the Civil Communications Section (CCS) under General MacArthur’s command in Tokyo after World War II. These papers tell the story of how the Americans shared their industrial management know-how with some very able Japanese, eventually giving rise to the Asian Economic Miracle
Charles Handy Papers
Donated by Charles and Elizabeth Handy, the Charles Handy Papers include original correspondence, articles, manuscripts and other documents related to his career as a leading authority in the field of management. Among his most influential books are The Age of Unreason, The Empty Raincoat, The Elephant and the Flea, Gods of Management, The Age of Paradox, Beyond Certainty and Myself and Other More Important Matters. Handy has been rated among the Thinkers50, a list of the most influential management thinkers in the world. In 2001 he was second on the list, behind only Peter Drucker. In 2011, Thinkers50 presented Handy with a lifetime achievement award. Handy’s wife, Elizabeth, a renowned photographer who was also his business partner and frequent collaborator, has donated her photographs of Charles to the collection.