ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author shares several brief reflections on the early history of Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) through the lens of their experience in those early days, including several seminal conversations with the father of management thought, Peter F. Drucker. The great Peter Drucker, an early advisor to PRME, passed away at age 93 less than a year before the author designed the prototype and built the early partnerships that would make PRME a reality. His advice to aim higher, to galvanize the entire field of management education, and his conviction that management is a matter of world affairs represents a call that resonates even louder today. Drucker, in the author's view, was prescient. He wanted an “aiming higher” mobilization across the entire field of management education. This was years before the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s scientific reports on climate emergency.
