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Peter Cappelli
George W. Taylor Professor of Management


Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, served as Senior Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for Employment Policy from 2003-2005, and since 2007 is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore. He has degrees in industrial relations from Cornell University and in labor economics from Oxford where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, and a faculty member at MIT, the University of Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley. He was a staff member on the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency from 1988-’90, Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce, and a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on Post-Secondary Improvement at Stanford University. Professor Cappelli has served on three committees of the National Academy of Sciences and three panels of the National Goals for Education. He was recently named by Vault.com as one the 25 most important people working in the area of human capital, one of the top 100 people in the field of recruiting and staffing by Recruit.com., and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He received the 2009 PRO award from the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters for contributions to human resources. He currently serves on commissions for The Business Roundtable, the World Economic Forum, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

Professor Cappelli’s recent research examines changes in employment relations in the U.S. and their implications. These publications The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce, which examines the decline in lifetime employment relationships, Talent Management: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty, which outlines the strategies that employers should consider in developing and managing talent (named a “best business book” for 2008 by Booz-Allen), and The India Way: How India’s Top Business Leaders are Revolutionizing Management (with colleagues), which describes a mission-driven and employee-focused approach to strategy and competitiveness. His forthcoming book Managing the Older Work (with Bill Novelli) dispels myths about older workers and describes how employers can best engage them. Related work on managing retention, electronic recruiting, and changing career paths appears in the Harvard Business Review.

Publications
Fali Huang, Peter Cappelli (2010), Applicant Screening and Performance-Related Outcomes, American Economic Review
Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra Singh, Michael Useem (2010), Leadership Lessons from India, Harvard Business Review
Peter Cappelli, Bill Novelli (2010), Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order, Boston: Harvard Business School Press
Peter Cappelli (2008), Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty, Boston: Harvard Business School Press
Peter Cappelli, Monica Hamori (2005), The New Path to the Top, Harvard Business Review, 83(1)
Peter Cappelli (2004), Why Do Employers Pay for College?, Journal of Econometrics, 121 (1-2)

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Knowledge@Wharton
Short-sighted Frugality? Employers Who Rein in Compensation Too Much Could Pay a Price Later 01/18/2012
The Discontented Thirties 12/05/2011
Is Going to College Worth the Investment? 10/26/2011
Wharton's Harbir Singh: How Indian Firms Can Take Advantage of Global Opportunities 10/20/2011
When Your Job Makes You Sick: Employees Find Little Leverage in Today's Workplace 09/28/2011
Arab Tech Entrepreneurs Forge Links Between the Middle East and Silicon Valley 09/13/2011

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Honors And Awards
HR Magazine's list of top international thinkers, 2011
Core teaching Award WEMBA East, 2011, 2011

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Cappelli Peter

Peter  Cappelli
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Research Interests:
Human resource practices, talent and performance management, public policy related to employment