The Drucker House and Archives

The Drucker Institute, in cooperation with the Drucker School of Management and the Claremont Colleges’ Library, maintains a collection of records donated by Peter Drucker, Tom Peters and others with whom he interacted. The archive’s purpose is to support research related to Drucker’s life and work.

This collection, both within the library and at the Drucker House, makes CGU the epicenter of management thinking and debate, allowing scholars, students, and leaders in the private, public, and social sectors to explore and learn from a near-century of writings on the topics of management, business, leadership, and humanism. (Peter Drucker’s first book was published in 1939 and Tom Peters’ last book in 2022.) 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.

In 2024, The Drucker School of Management, with the generous support of its advisory board developed a virtual tour of the Drucker House to help those explore the museum and its historical pictures, documents and look and feel. Access to the Drucker Archives and the Drucker House is available by appointment. Please contact our archivist at druckerarchives@cgu.edu or the executive director michael.kelly@cgu.edu 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.

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The Drucker House was acquired by the Drucker Institute in 2015 thanks to the generous support of Nobuhiro Iijima, the president and CEO of Yamazaki Baking Co., a life-long friend of Peter. Peter spent his most productive years in the modest California ranch house, writing more than two dozen books there and counseling generations of leading CEOs and thinkers within its walls. The aim of Drucker House was not only to preserve the residence as a historical site but also to provide a rich interpretive experience that tells the story of Peter Drucker’s life and work.

Tom Peters, one of the world’s leading business minds, has donated his nearly 40 years of books and articles to the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University (CGU). The Institute is home to Peter Drucker’s extensive archives.

“I saw a great opportunity to make the Drucker Institute the epicenter of management thinking and debate, allowing scholars, students, and leaders in the private, public, and social sectors to explore and learn from a near-century of writings on the topics of management, business, leadership, and humanism,” Peters said. (Drucker’s first book was published in 1939 and Peters’ last book in 2022.) “I am infinitely proud to be part of the Drucker family and hope my contributed papers will be of value to management thinkers and others in the years to come.”

Referred to by some as “the British Peter Drucker,” Charles Handy was born in Kildare, Ireland, in 1932 and was educated in England and in the United States. He graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, with first-class honors in “Greats”—a study of classics, history and philosophy.

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.