An academy personally authorized and named by Mr. Drucker.

A social enterprise with the mission of keeping alive Drucker’s management legacy.

China’s most authoritative organization spreading Drucker’s management philosophy.

With the guidance and involvement of Mr. Peter F. Drucker himself, Mr. Minglo Shao, Board Chairman of Bright China Group founded Bright China Management Institute ("BCMI") in 1999. It was a social enterprise established solely for the research and promotion of management insights of Mr. Drucker.

In 2005, Mr. Drucker personally authorized Bright China to use the name "Peter F. Drucker Academy" in China. After his death, the Drucker family and foundation continued to give full support to Bright China. On April 18, 2006, the Drucker family officially granted Bright China the right to use "Drucker" brand exclusively in all training programs and certification in China.

In 2007, the name of BCMI was officially changed to "Peter F. Drucker Academy" ("DA"). DA continues its mission to impart the Drucker legacy to Chinese knowledge workers and facilitate their study and practice of Drucker’s management principles. In the same year, DA was registered in Hong Kong as a non-profit organization, an extension of Beijing’s DA with identical mission.

Who is Peter Drucker?

Father of Modern Management

He was a highly reputed management visionary of the modern age, widely regarded as the father of modern management and the “guru of gurus”. His tremendous contributions to modern management as well as his innovative and forward-looking management ideas and practice have been commonly recognized in the world.

Management Guru

He left 39 books and countless scholarly and popular articles in his 65 years of career, of which 36 were carried in Harvard Business Review and seven won the McKinsey Award. The books and articles have been translated into 37 languages.

Drucker pioneered the ideas of decentralization, revolution in management, social ecology, management by objectives, knowledge worker, privatization, post-modern society, cash cow and profit center. His works have been recognized as the best in management science.

In 2002, when conferred on him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, US President George W. Bush said: “Peter Drucker’s prolific writings have greatly benefited our nation and significantly influenced the shape of our society and the modern business world. The United States honors his extraordinary accomplishments.”

He made management learnable and teachable.

Social Ecologist

He was concerned not only about how enterprises manage their resources but all the more so about the value of education, personal responsibility and social responsibility of enterprises. He called himself a “social ecologist”.

He had a far-reaching influence in sociology and economics. His works serve as a bridge between industrial age to knowledge age.