Peter Cappelli

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Peter Cappelli
Born (1956-09-07) September 7, 1956 (age 67)
New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationCornell University
Oxford University
Occupation(s)Author, Researcher, Management Professor, Human Resources Consultant
Known forHuman Resources, Talent Management
Websitemgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/cappelli/

Peter Cappelli (born September 7, 1956) is a human resources and management academic and author. He is a professor of Management and director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

His research focusses on hiring and training practices, automated recruiting, employee retention, employee performance and talent management. His works are known for contextualizing and chronicling the evolution of employment landscape in the US.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Peter Cappelli was born in Upstate New York to a local attorney.[1]

In 1978, he received a Bachelor of Science in industrial relations from Cornell University, and joined University of Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar, where he earned Doctorate in Labor Economics in 1980.[1][2] He is a German Marshall Fund fellow, a research associate of National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.[3]

Academic career[edit]

Cappelli joined the Wharton School in 1985 and served as the chair of its Management Department from 1995 to 1999.

He has penned over 150 research titles.[4] In 2012, he released a book on Why Good People Can't Get Jobs as a follow-up to his opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal that garnered industry reviews.[5] Cappelli led an open forum titled “Unemployed or Unemployable” at the 2013 Davos Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum.[6]

His book, Will College Pay Off—A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make, published in 2015, was discussed on CNBC Squawk Box,[7] PBS Newshour,[8] and reviewed by the Financial Times,[9] The Guardian,[10] and Quartz (publication).[11]

Cappelli has been the academic director of Wharton Executive Education Advanced programs for 15 years and currently leads the TMI-Wharton Programs on Talent Management.[12] In 2019, he designed an undergraduate course for the Wharton School on “How to be the boss” aimed at people in their 20s.[13]

Advisory and consulting[edit]

Cappelli has served on three committees of the National Academy of Sciences in 1997, 2000 and 2007.[14] During senior Bush and Clinton administrations, he was the co-director of the National Centre on the Educational Quality of Workforce with Robert Zemsky for the US Department of Education.[2] He was a member of WEF's Global Agenda Council on Employment,[15] and a senior advisor for employment policy to the Kingdom of Bahrain between 2003 and 2005.[3]

Awards and recognition[edit]

Cappelli was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (2003),[16] was named among the 25 most important people working in the area of human capital by Vault Rankings (2001), and received the PRO award from the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters for contributions to the field of human resources (2009).[14] He was ranked fifth in HR Magazine's Top 20 most influential international thinkers in HR.[17]

Selected works[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Moffitt, N. (2001). Managing Without Commitment. Wharton Alumni Magazine. (Winter 2001) Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b Management Department. (n.d.) Peter Cappelli: Profile. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  3. ^ a b Huffington Post. (n.d.) Peter Cappelli. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  4. ^ ResearchGate. (n.d.) Peter Cappelli. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  5. ^ McGregor, Jena. (2012). ‘Why you can’t get a job (even when you’re qualified and the company is hiring)’. The Washington Post. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  6. ^ World Economic Forum. Davos 2013 – Open Forum: Unemployed or Unemployable?. [video] Accessed 20 October 2019.
  7. ^ Squawk Box. (2015). Is college really worth the price of admission? CNBC. [video] Accessed 13 November 2019.
  8. ^ PBS Newshour. (2015). Why getting a college degree doesn’t always pay off. PBS. [video] Accessed 14 November 2019.
  9. ^ Jacobs, E. (2015). ‘Do students’ investments in their future really add up?’. Book Review of Will College Pay Off, by Peter Cappelli. Financial Times. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  10. ^ McGee, Suzanne. (2015). ‘Will College Payoff? The answer depends on the alternatives.’ The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  11. ^ Altschuler, Glenn. (2015). ‘What you’ve been told about picking a college major is probably wrong’. Quartz. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  12. ^ Talent Management Institute. Peter Cappelli: Academic Director of TMI-Wharton Programs. [online] Retrieved on 30 August 2019.
  13. ^ Cutter, Chip. (2019). ‘Like a Boss: A College Course for First-Time Managers’. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  14. ^ a b Peter Cappelli (Curriculum Vitae). [PDF] Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  15. ^ World Economic Forum, Global Agenda on Employment Council. (2014). Jobs and Skills: Tackling the Global Unemployment Crisis – Preparing for Growth. Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  16. ^ The National Academy of Human Resources. Fellows Directory | The National Academy of Human Resources. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  17. ^ HR Most Influential 2012 Top 20 International Thinkers, HR Magazine. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
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