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Joint Penn Club and Wharton Club of NJ Event with Peter Cappelli - CANCELLED

When:
Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 6:00 PM
Where:
Sills Cummis & Gross, P.C. - The Legal Center
One Riverfront Plaza
Newark, NJ  07102

973-643-7000
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Deborah K Zajkowski
Category:
Speaker Dinner
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Welcome to the 
Joint Penn Club and Wharton Club Event



Professor Peter Cappelli
to speak on

Will College Pay Off?
A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make

will college pay off book

On the
Agenda
  • 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Cocktails, Dining & Open Networking 
  • 7:15 pm - 7:30 pm Introductions
  • 7:15 pm - 8:30 pm Presentation and Q&A
  • 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm Dessert and More Open Networking

The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risks involved.

 

Professor Peter Cappelli will discuss his most recent book is “Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make”. An acclaimed expert in employment trends, the workforce, and education, Professor Cappelli provides hard evidence that counters conventional wisdom and helps people make cost-effective choices. College can be the largest expense for many families, on average even larger than the cost of the family home, and one that can bankrupt students and their parents if it works out poorly. Professor Cappelli offers vital insight for parents and students to make decisions that both make sense financially and provide the foundation that will help students make their way in the world.

 

Among the issues Professor Cappelli analyzes are:

  • What is the real link between a college degree and a job that enables one to pay off the cost of college, especially in a market that is constantly changing?
  • Why it may be a mistake to pursue degrees that will land one the hottest jobs because what is hot today is unlikely to be so by the time the student graduates.
  • Why the most expensive colleges may actually be the cheapest because of their ability to graduate students on time.
  • How parents and students can find out what different colleges actually deliver to students and whether it is something that employers really want.
 
Who is Peter Cappelli

He is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, served as Senior Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for Employment Policy from 2003-2005, and since 2007 is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore. He has degrees in industrial relations from Cornell University and in labor economics from Oxford where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

 
Professor Cappelli’s recent research examines changes in employment relations in the U.S. and their implications. Some of his more recent publications include:
  • Talent Management: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty, which outlines the strategies that employers should consider in developing and managing talent (named a “best business book” for 2008 by Booz-Allen).
  • Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs (2012) which identifies shortfalls with current hiring practices and training practices and has been excerpted in Time Magazine (online) and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and most major business publications.

For more information about Prof. Cappelli, follow this link: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/1307/

 
NOTE: Free parking for all attendees in the Legal Center garage.  (Tell the attendant that you are attending the Wharton Club event at Sills Cummis)

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