Bernard Jaworski, PhD

Bernie Jaworski is the Drucker Chair in Management and the Liberal Arts, which is named in honor of Peter Drucker, the founder of modern management and the namesake of the Drucker School. His 2020 book on Organic Growth (with Bob Lurie) received the Leonard Berry AMA book of the year award.  His most recent book (with Dave Sprott) is the Soul of Strategy: Building Customer Centric Organizations, Wiley, 2025). He has been voted MBA teacher of the year (both at USC and Drucker).

Jaworski comes to the Drucker School from the Switzerland-based IMD, a highly regarded international business school. Prior to working at IMD, Jaworski spent a decade as a senior partner of the Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm. During his Monitor career, he co-founded and co-led two of the global practice areas, the e-commerce practice and the executive education unit. Among other activities, he was a senior team member of a number of significant multi-year corporate transformations for multinational clients in a variety of sectors, notably pharmaceuticals, biotech and medical devices.