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In the first talk of the 2021-2022 Culverhouse Research Lecture series, the Culverhouse College will host Dr. Herman Aguinis on September 10 at 2:00 pm CDT in the Alston Parlor (400 Alston Hall).

Dr. Aguinis is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar, Professor of Management, and Chair of the Department of Management at The George Washington University School of Business. His research addresses the acquisition and deployment of talent in organizations and organizational research methods. He has been elected for the five-year presidency track of the Academy of Management (AOM), has served as Program Chair for the AOM 2020 virtual conference, and is now serving as AOM President. Professor Aguinis has written more than 180 refereed journal articles and published nine books. The 2020, 2019, and 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers Reports ranked him among the world’s 100 most impactful researchers in Economics and Business and his work has received about 38,000 Google Scholar citations (h-index = 89) and 13,000 Web of Science citations. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and has received several awards for career contributions such as the Losey Award by the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation for lifetime achievement in human resource research, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Scientific Contributions Award for lifetime contributions, AOM Research Methods Division Distinguished Career Award for lifetime contributions, and AOM Practice Theme Committee Scholar Practice Impact Award recognizing outstanding impact on policy making and managerial and organizational practices. He has received best-article-of-the-year awards from Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior (twice), Academy of Management Perspectives, Organizational Research Methods, and Management Research, served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods, and serves or has served on the editorial board of 26 journals.

The title of Dr. Aguinis’s talk is Scholarly Impact: Finding the Holy Grail. The abstract for this talk follows:

The desire to have an impact on different stakeholders including researchers, students, and society at large is a long-term aspiration of most academics—a sort of search of the “Holy Grail.” What is scholarly impact? How should we measure it? How can we enhance the impact of our research and teaching activities? The goal of this presentation is to address these questions by describing the latest research. The presentation will be of interest to researchers and educators aiming to enhance the impact of their work—as well as university leaders and administrators.

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