Mark A. Huselid

Mark A. Huselid (born 1961) is a university professor, workforce management specialist, book author, and business consultant. He is the Distinguished Professor of Workforce Analytics at D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University. He has authored research papers and books regarded as seminal to establishing a strategic link between human resource management and business performance.

Education
Huselid graduated with a B.A. in psychology from California State University, Fresno. He also received an M.A. in industrial and organizational psychology, and MBA, both from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in organization and human resources from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993.

Career
Huselid was a Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Strategy in the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) at Rutgers University, where he worked from 1992 to 2014. In 2014 he was further named a Distinguished Professor of Workforce Analytics at D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, and the Director of its Center for Workforce Analytics. He was Editor of Human Resource Management, the journal of the Society for Human Resource Management from 2000 to 2004.

He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, NAHR (2016), a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2017), and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2017).

He has been a frequent speaker to professional and academic audiences worldwide.

His research program focuses on balanced measurement systems for business success. They reflect the contribution of the workforce to the business's success.

Research
Huselid's research papers have been cited over 40,000 times according to Google Scholar. He has authored some of the most frequently cited articles in the history of Academy of Management Journal. According to reviewers, Huselid's academic writings played a pioneering role in validating a link between HRM practices and business productivity, particularly in the US.

Most cited papers

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Books


The publication of a new book by Huselid, Disrupting Workforce Competition: Executing Strategy through Workforce Analytics, has been announced.

Awards

 * Academy of Management Journal's Best Paper Award (1995).
 * Academy of Management's Scholarly Achievement Award in Human Resource Management (1996).
 * Journal of Management's Best Paper Award (2011)
 * State University of New York at Buffalo School of Management Distinguished Alumnus Award (2012).
 * Academy of Management's Best Paper award in human resource management (2017).