Rajiv Dutta Named Distinguished Executive-in-Residence at the Drucker School and Drucker Institute

CLAREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, along with the Drucker Institute, have announced that Rajiv Dutta, who recently stepped down as president of eBay Marketplaces, will serve as their first Distinguished Drucker Executive-in-Residence.

Dutta will use his time at the Drucker School and the Drucker Institute to interact with students and faculty, as well as to engage in a series of public conversations—to be held in Claremont with other leading executives—that explore critical management issues of the 21^st Century. Among them: How does a company reach beyond its traditional boundaries to tap the best ideas of people on the outside? How do you take a mobile, diverse, knowledge-driven workforce and align its thinking around a common purpose?

Dutta earned his MBA from the Drucker School, which is part of Claremont Graduate University, in 1982. Before running eBay Marketplaces, he served as president of PayPal, president of Skype, and eBay’s chief financial officer. Prior to joining eBay, Dutta held positions at KLA-Tencor, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment, and Bio-Rad Laboratories, a manufacturer and distributor of life science and diagnostic products. In addition to his Drucker School degree, he holds a B.A. in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University in India.

“Rajiv represents the best of business leadership: a strong set of values linked to an innovative approach to technology and customer service and a proven track record of financial performance,” said Ira Jackson, Dean of the Drucker School. “He was the youngest student to ever graduate from the Drucker School and his spectacular career embodies the essence of what we call the Drucker Difference: purpose tied to profits, discipline linked with caring, and character matched with results. At PayPal, at Skype and at eBay, Rajiv has walked the talk and offered a great example of the kind of capitalism we so desperately need.”

Dutta’s appointment follows those of two Distinguished Drucker Scholars-in-Residence, who spent time at CGU in 2007 and 2008: Professor Jiro Nonaka, of UC Berkeley and Hitotsubashi University, and British author and social philosopher Charles Handy.

“As we seek to fulfill our mission—stimulating effective management and ethical leadership across all sectors of society—it’s essential that we not only advance the timeless work of Peter Drucker but that we also engage with Drucker-like thinkers and practitioners who are helping organizations tackle the biggest challenges of today and tomorrow,” said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, a campus-wide resource of CGU. “Rajiv absolutely fills the bill. Besides enjoying tremendous success in the corporate world, he is one of the most thoughtful and insightful executives I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet.”

About the Drucker School

The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management is training the next generation of effective managers and ethical leaders for all sectors of society: private, public and philanthropic. Inspired by principles and practices advanced by Peter Drucker, the school approaches management as a liberal art and seeks to tackle some of the biggest questions challenging global society.

Part of the world-renowned Claremont Colleges and located in the foothills of the beautiful San Gabriel mountains 35 miles from downtown Los Angeles, the Drucker School is more than just a traditional “B” school; it is also an “M” (management) and an “L” (leadership) school.

With a strong commitment to research, values orientation, and an intimate graduate-only curriculum, the school was recently ranked fifth in the nation by Princeton Review in faculty quality. The Drucker School offers a variety of professional and doctoral degrees, including MBA, EMBA, MSFE (jointly with CGU’s School of Math), MA in Arts Management (jointly with CGU’s School of Arts and Humanities), and MA in Politics, Business, and Economics (jointly with CGU’s School of Politics and Economics).

Named for both a pioneering thinker (Peter Drucker) and an accomplished doer (Masatoshi Ito), the school produces graduates who have a strong sense of social responsibility and a deep desire to make a difference by doing well while also doing good.

About the Drucker Institute

The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University is a think tank and action tank whose purpose is to stimulate effective management and ethical leadership across all sectors of society. It does this, in large part, 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, volunteer-driven organizations that are using Drucker's teachings to affect positive change in their local communities.

In addition, the Institute maintains a digital archive of Drucker's papers; undertakes research that builds on Drucker’s writings; offers a major prize for nonprofit innovation; produces curricular material that distills Drucker’s decades of leading-edge thinking; applies Drucker’s work to current events (including through 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 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.

About Claremont Graduate University

Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top graduate schools in the United States. Our nine academic schools conduct leading-edge research and award master’s and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor easily defined, diverse faculty and students research and study across the traditional discipline boundaries to create new and practical solutions for the major problems plaguing our world. A Southern California-based graduate school devoted entirely to graduate research and study, CGU boasts a low student-to-faculty ratio.