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Peter Cappelli (born September 7, 1956) is a human resources and management academic and author. He is currently the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also the director of the Center for Human Resources.

His research covers issues related to hiring and training practices, electronic recruiting, employee retention, and performance and talent management.

Peter Cappelli received his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Relations from Cornell University in 1978.^[1]

Soon after undergrad, he joined Nuffield College of the University of Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar and earned his Doctorate in Labor Economics in 1983.^[1][2] He has been a fellow of the German Marshall Fund, a Research Associate of National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution.^[1]

Early in his career, he wanted to be a lawyer but eventually became a professor.^[2] Cappelli has taught at Wharton since 1985, before that at the University of California (Berkeley), University of Illinois, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London School of Economics and Bocconi University.^[1] He has numerous works to his credit.^[2][3]

In 2012, he wrote a book on Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs as a follow-up to his opinion piece^[4] published in The Wall Street Journal in 2011.^[5] “After writing the initial Wall Street Journal story, Cappelli heard from a few corporate leaders who told him there was really nothing they could do. He suggested he’d come out and take a close look at what they’re doing,” mentions Jena McGregor of The Washington Post.^[5] The book was reviewed in Forbes, which stated, “Cappelli debunks the oft-repeated argument from employers that applicants don’t have the skills needed for today’s jobs.”^[6] In the following year, Cappelli led an open forum titled “Unemployed or Unemployable” at the 2013 Davos Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum.^[7]

He published another book Will College Pay Off—A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make in 2015 that challenged the popular notion that it always makes sense to go to college.^[8] It was reviewed by the Financial Times^[9], The Guardian^[10], Quartz (publication) and other major periodicals. His article on “HR Goes Agile Lite” co-authored with Anna Travis was reviewed in Forbes^[11] and is among Harvard Business Review “10 Must Reads on Reinventing HR”.^[12] He also discussed the concept of agility in HR on a TED Talk at HR Exchange, Think 2018, organized by IBM Watson Talent.^[13]

To build better managers out of people in their 20s, Cappelli created an undergraduate course on “How to be the boss”^[14] launched in January 2019 at Wharton.^[15] Cappelli has also directed Wharton’s Advanced Management program for 15 years and currently leads the TMI-Wharton Programs on Talent Management as its Academic Director.^[16]

Cappelli was the co-director of the National Centre on the Educational Quality of Workforce with Robert Zemsky for the US Department of Education, during the Senior Bush and Clinton administrations.^[5] He also served as the member of WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Employment ^[17], and a Senior Advisor for employment policy to the Kingdom of Bahrain between 2003 and 2005.^[18] He hosts “In the Workplace” weekly radio show with Dan O’Meara aired on Sirius XM channel 132.^[19]

• Named among the 25 most important people working in the area of human capital by Vault Rankings (2001).^[1]

• Elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (2003).^[20]

• Received the PRO award from the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters for contributions to the field of human resources (2009).^[18]

• In 2012, Cappelli was ranked fifth by HR Magazine in the list of world’s most influential management thinkers.^[18]

• The India Way: How India’s top business leaders are revolutionizing management (2010).

• Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can do About It (2012).

• Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make (2015).

• Why we love to hate HR, Harvard Business Review (2015).

• Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China’s Great Global Companies (2017).

• Why Bosses Should Stop Thinking of ‘A Players,’ ‘B Players’ and ‘C Players’, The Wall Street Journal, 19 February 2017.

• The Biggest Mistakes Companies Make with Hiring, The Wall Street Journal, 21 February 2019.