Biography
Mo Wang is the Seinsheimer Chair in Business and Professor of Management at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business. He joined the Freeman School in 2026 after serving as University Distinguished Professor and Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business, where he also held the titles of Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives, Department Chair of Management, and Director of the Human Resource Research Center. Wang’s research focuses on retirement and older worker employment, occupational health psychology, leadership and team processes, and advanced quantitative methodologies. A prolific scholar with more than 230 papers in peer-reviewed journals, Wang’s research has appeared in top-tier management and psychology publications including Academy of Management Journal, American Psychologist, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, Organization Science, Psychological Bulletin and Psychological Methods. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Work, Aging and Retirement and serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Psychology (2026–2032). Wang has received numerous awards for his research, including the Journal of Management Scholarly Impact Award, the Academy of Management (AOM) OB Division Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, the SIOP William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award and the AOM HR Division Scholarly Achievement Award. He was elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea in 2021 and inducted into the Florida Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine in 2025. He is an elected Fellow of AOM, APA, APS and SIOP. Wang has briefed the U.S. Congress and served as an invited speaker for the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. His research has been featured by the BBC, New York Times, NPR, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine, and he has delivered more than 90 keynotes across 17 countries. He holds a PhD and MA from Bowling Green State University and a BS from Peking University.