Program | ABA-Wharton Leadership Lab

7:00 AM – 8:45 AM

Breakfast

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM

Review & Integration

• Peter Cappelli, Academic Director, ABA-Wharton Leadership Lab; George W. Taylor Professor of Management, The Wharton School

9:00 AM –  10:30 AM

Talent Leadership: Building, Buying, and Borrowing Talent

Based on his research, Professor Cappelli will explain the shift in the employment relationship from a lifelong commitment to open-market affiliation. This session will focus on understanding the current situation in the “War for Talent,” and honing your skills in managing the “flow” of employees through your organization. Learn various methods of recruiting talent, best practices for retaining key employees, working with the next generation of employees, as well as labor force trends.

• Peter Cappelli, Academic Director, ABA-Wharton Leadership Lab; George W. Taylor Professor of Management, The Wharton School

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Succession Planning

With declining employee-employer loyalty and an aging workforce, many companies are facing high turnover rates. This session explains how to plan a talent pipeline, ensuring that current performers are rewarded and retained, and a new generation of employees is recruited and developed.

• Peter Cappelli, Academic Director, ABA-Wharton Leadership Lab; George W. Taylor Professor of Management, The Wharton School

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

AI and New Technologies for Business

From predictive technologies to Large Language Models like ChatGPT, AI will continue to affect workforce needs. In this session, review the capabilities of these technologies, with an emphasis on understanding how they affect the demand for skills in jobs. Discuss the frameworks being used by policymakers, academics, businesses and NGOs to assess the types of jobs that will be in demand in a tech-driven future.

• Prasanna Tambe, Ph.D., Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM – 4:45 PM

Unleashing Collective Intelligence

This session will focus on how to create a culture and mechanisms inside organizations to maximize intelligence and resilience of the company. Engage in a discussion forum about how to get better at collecting and responding to important internal and external signals, and how to make decisions based on collective intelligence.

• Amrita Subramanian, Ph.D., Faculty, Organizational Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Break

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Unleashing Collective Intelligence Cont’d

• Amrita Subramanian, Ph.D., Faculty, Organizational Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Identifying Value Drivers

Too often, organizations equate growth to value. However, top-line growth can be deceiving. What really matters is whether the company’s growth is profitable, whether it is sustainable and how much investment is required to achieve it. In this session, we derive a valuation tool that allows management to assess projects, products and even customers, to determine where and how to prioritize resources.

• David Wessels, Ph.D., Adjunct Full Professor of Finance, The Wharton School; Director, Wharton Executive Education

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Break

10:15 AM –  11:45 AM

Identifying Value Drivers Cont’d

• David Wessels, Ph.D., Adjunct Full Professor of Finance, The Wharton School; Director, Wharton Executive Education

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Break

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Program Wrap Up & Commencement