Bob Buford (September 16, 1939 – April 18, 2018) was an American cable-TV pioneer, social entrepreneur, author,[1] and venture philanthropist.
Bob became founding chairman in 1988 of what was initially called The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and popularized the concept of Halftime through several books he authored.
Buford was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and of the Owner Managed Program at Harvard.
In the fall of 1999, Bill Pollard of ServiceMaster, Nan Stone, former editor of the Harvard Business Review, and several other people agreed that it was vitally important to preserve the writings and management ideas of Peter Drucker for the future leaders of business and nonprofit organizations.
In connection with Claremont Graduate University, The Drucker Institute was created.