Events

Emilio Castilla Keynote Lecture

The Paradox of Meritocracy: Challenges for Talent in the 21st Century

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising the Master Conference "The paradox of meritocracy: Challenges for talent in the 21st Century", to be given by Emilio Castilla, on 22 October at 19:00.

Emilio Castilla is Professor of Business Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Rafael del Pino Professor. Castilla joined the MIT Sloan faculty in 2005, after having been a member of the Department of Business Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently co-director of the MIT Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, as well as a research associate at the Wharton Center for Financial Institutions and the Wharton School's Center for Human Resources. Most recently, he has also served as director of the Work and Organizational Studies Group. He received his graduate degree in Business Analysis from Lancaster University Management School (UK) and his PhD and MA in Sociology from Stanford University. Professor Castilla studies how social and organisational processes influence key employment outcomes over time. He approaches his research questions by examining different empirical settings with longitudinal data sets, both at the individual and firm level. He focuses on employee selection, recruitment, compensation, development and job mobility within and across organisations, as well as the impact of social relations on performance and innovation. His work has been published in leading academic and editorial journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review. He has also written a book on the use of longitudinal methods in social science research (Elsevier/Academic Press). Professor Castilla has taught in a variety of undergraduate programmes at MIT Sloan, the Wharton School and other international universities. His teaching interests include people analytic strategies, strategic human resource management, leadership of effective organisations, talent management, successful career development and organisational behaviour. In addition to teaching full-time MBA and executive courses, he has taught several doctoral level seminars.

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