Herman Aguinis is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management at the George Washington University School of Business. He has been elected for the presidency track of the Academy of Management (AOM), served as Vice President and Program Chair for the AOM 2020 Virtual Conference and as AOM President during 2021-2022. Every year since 2018, the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers Reports ranked him among the world's 100 most impactful researchers in Economics and Business. He has received career awards for lifetime contributions from the Academy of Management, Society for Human Resource Management, and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Prior to joining GWSB, he was the John F. Mee Chair of Management and the Founding and Managing Director of the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness in the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar at universities in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Argentina, France, Spain, Puerto Rico, Australia, and South Africa.

His research is interdisciplinary and addresses the acquisition and deployment of talent in organizations (i.e., behavioral science) and organizational research methods (i.e., data science). Recent projects address star performance, corporate social responsibility & business sustainability, domestic and international workforce diversity, leadership, staffing, training and development, performance management, and innovative methodological approaches for developing and testing theories. His professional and life agenda is to have an impact on the academic community, but also on society at large.

Dr. Aguinis has published eleven books, including Performance Management (5th edition, 2023), Performance Management for Dummies (2019), Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th edition, 2019, with W.F. Cascio), and Regression Analysis for Categorical Moderators. In addition, he has written about 200 refereed journal articles, about 50 book chapters, monographs, and other publications, has delivered about 30 keynotes and 300 presentations at professional conferences, delivered about 170 invited presentations in all seven continents except for Antarctica, and raised about $5MM for his research and teaching endeavors from private foundations and federal sources (e.g., National Science Foundation).

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management (also served as Deputy Dean of the AOM Fellows), the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and has been inducted into the Society for Organizational Behavior. He has received many recognitions and awards including the Academy of Management Practice Theme Committee Scholar Practice Impact Award recognizing outstanding impact on policy making and managerial and organizational practices, Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division IDEA Thought Leader Award, International Council for Small Business Global Leadership Excellence Award in Support of MSMEs, Indiana University Dr. Martin Luther King Building Bridges Award for promoting equality, equity, diversity, and justice, and Indiana University Latino Faculty and Staff Council Distinguished Faculty Award recognizing his service, mentoring, and promotion of diversity initiatives. He has received seven Best Article of Year Awards from Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior (twice), Academy of Management Perspectives, Organizational Research Methods, and Management Research. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods, co-editor of special issues of Journal of Management on "bridging micro and macro research domains" and Personnel Psychology on "corporate social responsibility," and contributing editor of Business Horizons. He also served as President of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, served as founding associate editor of Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, and serves or has served on the editorial board of 26 journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, and Academy of Management Learning and Education.

Dr. Aguinis teaches courses at the MBA, executive, and PhD levels in the areas of organizational behavior, human resource management, and research methods and analysis such as international management, foundations of management, global organizational effectiveness, performance management, human capital & talent acquisition, statistics, and research methods. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. Aguinis has consulted with organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America including the United Nations, AT&T, the City of San Francisco Police Department, Kronos, Accenture, and Sears Holdings Corp., among others. He was appointed by the U.S. Department of State to serve a five-year term on the Board of Examiners for the United States Foreign Service and has provided expert testimony and written briefs for several high-profile court cases (including the U.S. Supreme Court). His research has been featured by numerous media outlets in the U.S. and abroad including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Forbes, Business Week, National Public Radio, USA Today, The Seattle Times, The Chicago Tribune, HR Magazine, Univision, Mujer Actual (Spain), and La Nación (Argentina), among others.