Professor PETER CAPPELLI

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School, Director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA and a member of the executive committee of the National Center on Post-Secondary Improvement for the U.S. Department of Education at Stanford University. 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, as well as The Wharton School. He was a staff member on the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency from 1988-'90 and was recently named by Vault.com as one the 25 most important people working in the area of human capital.

Professor Cappelli's research has examined changes in the workplace and their effects on employers. His publications include Change at Work (Oxford University Press 1997), a major study for the National Planning Association on the restructuring of U.S. industry and its effects on employees, and The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce (Harvard Business School Press 1999), which examines the challenges associated with the decline in lifetime employment relationships. His recent work on managing retention and on new approaches to recruiting appears in the Harvard Business Review.