Center to Host Leadership Conference
The 12th Annual Wharton Leadership Conference is set for June 18, 2008, in Philadelphia. During the one-day intensive conference, speakers will address Emerging Trends in the Search for Leadership. This year’s speakers are: Colleen C. Barrett, president and corporate secretary for Southwest Airlines; Peter Cappelli, the George W. Taylor Professor of Management and director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School; Ken Chenault, chairman and chief executive officer of American Express Co.; David Gergen, professor of public service and the director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; S.A. Ibrahim, chief executive officer of Radian Group Inc.; Captain Wei Jiafu, president and chief executive officer of China Ocean Shipping Company; Joe Nocera, a business columnist for the New York Times, contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and regular business commentator for NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon; and William C. Weldon, chairman of the Board and chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson. For more information or to register, visit the Leadership Conference website.

Two new books by Peter Cappelli available
Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty, by Peter Cappelli, is now available. The book looks at the difficulties managers face in forecasting their talent needs and offers solutions from the perspective of supply chain management.
Employment Relationships: New Models of White Collar Work, edited by Peter Cappelli, is now available for pre-order. In this edited volume, contributing authors trace the latest developments in employment arrangements as employers struggle to meet the diverging demands of their product markets.

Senior Fellow publishes book on studying social dynamics
Emilio Castilla, Senior Fellow at the Center and assistant professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, recently published Dynamic Analysis in the Social Sciences. The book looks at models and methodology currently available to study social change over time. Visit the book's website for more information or to order the book.

Rethinking Employee Development topic of recent column by Peter Cappelli
Peter Cappelli's most recent column in Human Resource Executive Online, Rethinking Employee Development, offers new ways for companies to train and develop employees without taking on all of the associated risk and cost.

Peter Cappelli comments on Chrysler's new top executive
In an article in the Detroit Free Press, Peter Cappelli commented on Bob Nardelli's effectiveness six months into his role as Chrysler LLC's top executive. Cappelli expects that Nardelli will apply many of the lessons he learned at GE to Chrysler, much in the same way he did during his tenure at Home Depot.

Peter Cappelli predicts how economic downturn will affect jobs
How will the current economic downturn affect jobs? In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Peter Cappelli predicted that "in coming months, we'll likely see companies laying off employees but also crying that they can't find people with the skills they need."