May 2006, 4 pages
Interview by: Sarah Powell
Peter Cappelli is George W. Taylor Professor of Management and Director of the centre for Human Resources at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Previously he held appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Cappelli is a Co-Director of the US Department of Education National centre on the Educational Quality of the Workforce, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is currently completing a major study of worker characteristics and establishment performance with the Bureau of the Census. Peter Cappelli is the author of The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce (Harvard Business School Press, 1999) which describes the challenges associated with managing the new, more mobile workforce.
Professor Cappelli was named one of the 25 most influential people in the field of human capital by Vault.com and one of the top 100 people in the field of recruiting by Recruiter.com. In 2003 he was named Senior Adviser to the Kingdom of Bahrain, with responsibility for recommendations concerning the country’s labour market and employment systems.
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