Overview
Join ExecOnline and Wharton for a conversation with Peter Cappelli, the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. Cappelli has been recognized as one of the most influential management thinkers whose work on performance management, agile systems, hiring practices, and other workplace topics appears in the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and HR Executive magazine.
Speakers
Peter Cappelli
George W. Taylor Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management, The Wharton School.
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, was a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore, and was Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce from 1990-1998.
He was recently named by HR Magazine as one of the top 5 most influential management thinkers, by NPR as one of the 50 influencers in the field of aging, 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 and an honorary Doctorate degree from the University of Liege in Belgium. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and writes a monthly column for HR Executive magazine. His recent work on performance management, agile systems, and hiring practices, and other workplace topics appears in the Harvard Business Review.