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Ruth V. Aguilera (Harvard University, Ph.D.) is the Distinguished Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a Visiting Professor at ESADE Business School in her native Barcelona.

Prior to coming to Boston, Professor Aguilera was at the Gies Business School at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where she reached the rank of Full Professor. Her research interests lie at the intersection of strategic organization, economic sociology and global strategy, specializing in international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. She is a Consulting Editor at the Global Strategy Journal and a Deputy Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies. She formerly served as an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Review, Senior Editor at Organization Science and at Corporate Governance: An International Review. She serves on several academic, professional, and corporate Board of Directors, and is a Fellow of the top four academic associations, Academy of Management (AOM), Academy of International Business (AIB), Strategic Management Society (SMS) and the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS).

Professor Aguilera has been named a Clarivate 2025 Highly Cited Researcher for her remarkable contributions on multiple highly cited papers ranking in the top 1% by citations in the fields of Business and Economics alongside 7,130 other top researchers in their fields.

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