Peter Drucker Comes to Honolulu

November 17, 1999

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HONOLULU — Peter F. Drucker, the "Father of Modern Management" and preeminent management thinker and teacher, and other distinguished management professors will be in Honolulu on January 13, 2000 for a half-day executive forum at the Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki. The executive forum, which is open to the public, is a part of an invitation-only executive roundtable that will be attended by senior-level business leaders from the United States, Japan and other countries.

Co-hosted by JAIMS and the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, the "Executive Leadership for the New Millennium" roundtable will feature keynote presentations by Drucker based on his new book, Management Challenges for the 21^st Century.

Roundtable discussions, led by management professors from various organizations, will examine timely and relevant issues facing corporate and nonprofit organization leaders in the dynamic era of globalization. The roundtable will address critical leadership issues through the exchange of experiences and expectations from different cultures and contexts, with Drucker laying the foundation for the discussions.

Other roundtable presenters include Cornelis A. de Kluyver, dean of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management; Richard Ellsworth, professor of management and co-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Drucker School; Ikujiro Nonaka, founding dean of the Graduate School of Knowledge Science at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and the Xerox Distinguished Professor of Knowledge at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley; Vijay Sathe, professor of management at the Drucker School; and Hirotaka Takeuchi, dean of the Graduate School of International Business Strategy at Hitotsubashi University.

The January 13 public forum, with a presentation by Drucker, will be followed by a panel discussion with de Kluyver, Ellsworth, Nonaka, Sathe and Takeuchi, and audience participation. The forum will be held at the Halekulani Hotel Ballroom from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

"It’s exciting that Professor Drucker has chosen Hawaii as the major venue to open the 21^st century millennium," said Glenn Miyataki, president of JAIMS and co-chair of the roundtable. "An outlook for global managers could possibly emerge from this prestigious group of senior-level business leaders from the U.S., Japan, Europe, and other Asian countries who will discuss and debate executive leadership and action in today’s global environment. We are pleased that Professor Drucker will be able to meet many members of our community and receive their thoughts on his management challenges in such a public forum."

"It is a rare opportunity to be able to create different schools of thought on a global basis," said Andrea McAleenan, Drucker co-chair of the roundtable. "To expand Peter Drucker’s philosophy and core values through dialogues with such a distinguished group of participants ensures that Honolulu indeed lives up to its reputation of being the bridge between the East and West."

Peter F. Drucker is a writer, teacher and consultant specializing in management strategy and policy for business and nonprofit organizations. He has written more than 31 books dealing with the subjects of society, economics, politics and management. Born in Vienna, Austria, Drucker received his doctorate in public and international law from Frankfurt University in Germany. He continues to teach in the Executive Management Program at the Drucker School.

The Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in California provides a prestigious learning environment that ensures graduates remain on the forefront change in management education and practice. With a mission to prepare leaders for meaningful action in an evolving, global business environment, the Drucker School offers a comprehensive range of programs for all levels of management.

JAIMS, a pioneer in intercultural management education, is a private, nonprofit postgraduate institute in Honolulu that prepares global managers through programs in intercultural business management and business language, and seminars in information technology, cross-cultural communications and health care management. Established in 1972 by Fujitsu Ltd. of Japan, JAIMS has a support office in Tokyo.

For more information on the Drucker-JAIMS public forum on January 13, 2000, please visit the JAIMS website at www.jaims.org, e-mail info@jaims.org or contact Julie Chen, marketing and public affairs manager at (808) 396-7119 or e-mail jchen@jaims.org.