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Peter Cappelli talks about "changing your mind". Professors Peter Cappelli and Andrew Newberg were recently interviewed on NPR's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane on the "science and psychology of changing your mind," a show prompted by Sen. Arlen Specter's dramatic announcement that he was switching political parties to become a Democrat....

Wharton Centers to host 13th Annual Leadership Conference on June 16, 2009. Organizations are facing unprecedented challenges from uncertainties in their markets, and the leadership decisions that executives must make are more difficult but also more consequential. The 13th annual Wharton Leadership Conference on June 16, 2009 will focus on "Leading in a Dynamic and Unpredictable World." ...

Center to host program on downsizing and its alternatives. In response to the severe economic downturn and its implications for company and HR managers, the Center will host a program looking at how companies are restructuring in order to save money. The program, headed by Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management and Director, Center for Human Resources, will explore the array of cost-cutting approaches, the consequences of each, and how to choose among them. ...

Center sponsors Marcus Buckingham talk. A leading expert on career success and author of The New York Times bestsellers, First, Break All the Rules; Now Discover Your Strengths; and Go Put Your Strengths to Work, Marcus Buckingham presents new wisdom on career satisfaction to a live audience on campus. ...

Center’s Leadership Conference voted top 10. The Center’s Leadership Conference was listed among the top 10 most influential corporate conferences, according to corporate communications and marketing executives ...