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Friends: The Board of Directors and Associates of the Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Peter Drucker on November 11, 2005. A visionary management thinker, teacher and writer, Peter Drucker's inspiration lives on though the works of the Canadian Foundation and its newly refocused Social Innovation Awards program (SIA). Celebrating collaboration, social enterprise and community catalysts, the Canadian Drucker Foundation is proud to partner with the Centre for Social Innovation and the Ashoka Foundation in its national mandate to recognize and reward the best of Canada's social innovators. Aligned with Drucker's interests in innovation in social enterprise, the SIA fosters an innovative, resilient and vibrant social mission sector in Canada by actively identifying, celebrating and sharing proven strategies of social innovation. Sincerely, Jacline Nyman Biography Peter F. Drucker is a writer, teacher, and consultant specializing in strategy and policy for businesses and social sector organizations. He has consulted with many of the world’s largest corporations as well as with nonprofit organizations, small and entrepreneurial companies. He is the author of 31 books, which have translated into more than 21 languages. He has been an editorial columnist for the Wall Street Journal and contributes frequently to the Harvard Business Review and other periodicals. Mr. Drucker was born in 1909 in Vienna and was educated there and in England. He took his doctorate in public and international law while working as a newspaper reporter in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Drucker came to the United States in 1937. He began his teaching career as professor of politics and philosophy at Bennington College; for more than twenty years he was professor of management at the Graduate Business School of New York University. The recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, Peter Drucker has, since 1971, been Clarke Professor of Social Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. He has been hailed as the seminal thinker, writer and lecturer on the contemporary organization. |
