BusinessWeek's John Byrne and City Year's Allison Graff-Weisner Join the Drucker...

BusinessWeek's John Byrne and City Year's Allison Graff-Weisner Join the Drucker Institute's Board of Advisors

CLAREMONT, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
The Drucker Institute announced that John A. Byrne, the
editor-in-chief and executive editor of BusinessWeek.com, and Allison
Graff-Weisner, the executive director of City Year Los Angeles, have
joined its Board of Advisors.

"We're thrilled to have brought aboard two people who can do so
much to help us advance our mission: to stimulate effective management
and ethical leadership across all of society by advancing the ideas
and ideals of Peter Drucker," said Rick Wartzman, the director of the
Institute, which is a campus-wide resource of Claremont Graduate
University. "John's expertise in the online world and Allison's
intimate knowledge of how to engage young people promise to be
invaluable for us as we move forward with our programming."

Byrne and Graff-Weisner join an extraordinary group of board
members, who include: John Bachmann, senior partner at the investment
firm Edward Jones; Bob Buford, cable TV pioneer, author and chairman
of the Buford Foundation; attorney Cecily Drucker, daughter of the
late Peter Drucker; author, inventor and entrepreneur Doris Drucker,
wife of the late Peter Drucker; Nobuhiro Iijima, president of
Tokyo-based Yamazaki Baking Co.; Ira Jackson, dean of CGU's Peter F.
Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; CGU President
Robert Klitgaard; K.H. Moon, former chief executive of Yuhan-Kimberly
Ltd. of South Korea; C. William Pollard, former chairman and CEO of
ServiceMaster Co. and author; Minglo Shao, founder of Bright China
Holding Ltd. and head of the Peter F. Drucker Academy, a nonprofit
educational organization dedicated to teaching Drucker's principles
and practices in China; and Craig Wynett, general manager of Future
Growth Initiatives at Procter & Gamble Co.

"John and Allison bring energy, passion and credibility to
everything they do," said Ira Jackson. "Their presence on our board
will assist us in reaching new audiences with innovative approaches.
City Year is one of the nation's best examples of social innovation
that has had a transformative impact, and BusinessWeek continues to
pioneer new approaches to understanding the world of commerce and
creativity. I believe Peter would be proud and pleased of this
evolving, diverse and talented global board, and in knowing that his
legacy is in such good and able hands."

After serving as executive editor of BusinessWeek magazine for two
years, Byrne assumed the top editorial job at BusinessWeek's
fast-growing online operation. In his first year in this role in 2007,
he led BusinessWeek.com to record levels of reader engagement and
traffic, oversaw the redesign of the website, and launched extensive
new areas of coverage, including on management. Previously, Byrne was
editor-in-chief of Fast Company magazine. He is the author of eight
books on business, leadership, and management. Among them is Jack:
Straight from the Gut, the highly anticipated collaboration with
former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch, which debuted at the top
of The New York Times bestseller list. Byrne holds a master's in
journalism from the University of Missouri and an undergraduate degree
in English and political science from William Paterson College.

"As a longtime admirer of Peter's work, I'm looking forward to
helping the Institute spread his ideas and ideals to a new generation
of global leaders," said Byrne. "I think Peter would love the idea of
using new technology to reach and touch people with his thinking in
every corner of the world."

Prior to moving to the West Coast to launch City Year Los Angeles
in 2007, Graff-Weisner served as the national alumni director of the
organization, which unites young people of all backgrounds for a year
of full-time community service. In addition to her involvement with
City Year, Graff-Weisner has worked at numerous community development
and educational organizations in the U.S. and abroad. After running
parent involvement programs at 20 schools in the Bronx with Learning
Leaders, a group that engages 10,000 volunteers in New York City
schools, she helped oversee its program department. She also taught
and ran an after-school program in Washington, D.C., during her year
of national service with Public Allies. She is a graduate of U.C.
Berkeley and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

"As the leader of City Year Los Angeles, I am dedicated to the
belief that young people can change the world if they are given the
skills and experiences to do so," Graff-Weisner said. "I am thrilled
to be part of the Drucker Institute, with its track record of
innovative thinking and practice around developing ethical leaders and
managers. I believe the Drucker Institute has tremendous potential to
help develop the next generation of young leaders."

About the Drucker Institute

The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University is a think
and action tank whose purpose is to stimulate effective management and
ethical leadership across all sectors of society by advancing the
ideas and ideals of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management.

The Institute acts as a hub for a worldwide network of Drucker
Societies, which are using Drucker's teachings to affect positive
change in their local communities. This summer, representatives from
at lease a dozen of these groups--spanning eight countries on four
continents--will gather in Claremont at the Second Annual Drucker
Society Global Symposium.

In addition, the Institute maintains a digital archive of
Drucker's papers; undertakes research that builds on Drucker's
writings; offers a curriculum that distills Drucker's decades of
leading-edge thinking; produces material that applies Drucker's work
to current events (including a regular online column in BusinessWeek
by Institute Director Rick Wartzman); presents a slide show exploring
the "Responsibility Gap"--society's collective failure to be good and
ethical stewards of our resources, people and institutions; and hosts
visiting fellows with Drucker-like insights and values. (The most
recent Drucker fellow was social philosopher and best-selling author
Charles Handy.)

The Institute is a close affiliate of the Peter F. Drucker and
Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. For more on the Institute
and its programs, go to www.DRUCKERinstitute.com.

Claremont Graduate University
Nikolaos Johnson
Assistant Director, Media Relations
Phone: 909-621-8396
Fax: 909-621-8029
Nikolaos.johnson@cgu.edu
www.cgu.edu

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