Haig Nalbantian, Richard Guzzo honored for 'Making Mobility Matter'

Mercer's Human Capital consultants Haig R. Nalbantian and Richard A. Guzzo, have been honored by the Academy of Management for their March 2009 Harvard Business Review article, "Making Mobility Matter."

The two consultants received the organization's 2010 "Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication" award at a ceremony during the Academy’s annual conference in Montreal.

Mr. Nalbantian, Senior Partner and Director of Mercer’s Global Research and Commercialization function and who is based in New York, was a founder of Mercer’s Workforce Sciences group. A labor economist, he has been instrumental in developing Mercer’s unique capability to measure the economic impact of Human Capital practices. Prior to joining Mercer, he taught economics at New York University prior to joining NERA in 1989.

Based in Washington, DC, Dr. Guzzo, is a Partner and leads Mercer’s Workforce Sciences group. Before joining Mercer in 1997, he was Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD from Yale University.

About the award: The Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication award is given in recognition of an article that provides the most significant contribution to the practice of management in the field of organizational behavior. The article was selected for the award by a committee of six well-known management scholars who reviewed management journals and other papers nominated by the Academy's membership.