Herman Aguinis

Herman Aguinis is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management at The George Washington University School of Business and holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication. His work focuses on the global acquisition and deployment of talent in organizations and organizational research methods (i.e., behavioral science and data science). Every year since 2018, Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers Reports has ranked him among the world’s 100 most impactful researchers in Economics and Business, he served as President of the Academy of Management, and has been inducted into The PhD Project Hall of Fame. Before joining GWU, he was the John F. Mee Chair of Management and the Founding and Managing Director of the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Also, he has held appointments at universities in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Argentina, France, Spain, Puerto Rico, Australia, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. Professor Aguinis has written over 220 refereed journal articles and 50 book chapters, monographs, and other publications. He has delivered over 40 keynote speeches, 320 presentations at professional conferences, and 180 invited presentations on all seven continents except for Antarctica. He raised about $5MM for his research and teaching endeavors from private foundations and federal sources (e.g., National Science Foundation). His research has been published in all seven journals of the Academy of Management and he has published 13 books, including Research Methodology: Best Practices for Rigorous, Credible, and Impactful Research (2025); Performance Management (5^th edition, 2023; also published in Chinese, Arabic, and Persian/Farsi); Applied Psychology in Talent Management (9^th edition, 2025, with W.F. Cascio; also published in Chinese); Performance Management for Dummies (2019); Regression Analysis for Categorical Moderators; and the following edited volumes: Opening the Black Box of Editorship (with Y. Baruch, A.M. Konrad, & W.H. Starbuck) and Test-Score Banding in Human Resource Selection.