Nominated for the Glueck Best Paper Award, Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, for "Owners on Both Sides of the Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions and Overlapping Institutional Ownership" with Goranova, M. '07 PhD and Dharwadkar, R.
Whitman Research Fellow, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 2008-2010
Das, D., Dharwadkar, R., & Brandes, P. "The Importance of Being 'Something': Identity Centrality and Work Outcomes in Offshored Call Centers in India." Best International Paper award from the OB Division of the Academy of Management for 2007. Nominated for the Dexter Award, Academy of Management award for the best international paper.
Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, 2005. A Syracuse University-wide award recognizing excellence in teaching by untenured faculty members. Including a $3,000 budget for personal development.
Guest speaker, "Women in Leadership--Understanding the Gender Difference," Bond, Schoeneck and King Women's Initiative, Nov. 2009
Outstanding reviewer for the Academy of Management Review 2009
Top 10 reviewer for the Journal of Organizational Behavior 2009
Highly commendable paper (top four best papers published in 2008) in the Journal of Managerial Psychology
Editorial board, Academy of Management Review
Elected as treasurer of the research methods division in the 2008 Election of the Academy of Management
Guttag Junior Faculty Award, 2007-2009
Editorial board, Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2005-present
Byron, K., Peterson, S. J., Walumbwa, F., & Myrowitz, J. "Transformational Leadership, Positive Psychological Traits, and Firm Performance." BestPaper Proceedings of the 2007 Academy of Management meetings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007.
Byron, K., & Baldridge, D. B. "Toward an Understanding of Nonverbal Cues and Emotion in Email Communication." Best Paper Proceedings of the 2005 Academy of Management meetings, Honolulu, Hawaii (Second Runner-Up for Best Paper of OCIS Division), 2005.
Selected as one of "The Top 50 Faces of Operational Risk” by OpRisk & Compliance, a leading European practitioners’ magazine on operational risk
Recipient of a grant from the FDIC's Center for Financial Research to support research on operational losses and credit risk. The proposal was one of nine selected for 2008 funding. It is based on joint research with Yu, F., from Michigan State University.
Nominated for the Glueck Best Paper Award, Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, for "Owners on Both Sides of the Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions and Overlapping Institutional Ownership" with Goranova, M. '07 PhD and Brandes, P.
Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, 2007, Syracuse University
Best International Paper award from the OB Division of the Academy of Management for 2007 and nominated for the Dexter Award, Academy of Management Award for the best international paper, for "The Importance of Being 'Something': Identity Centrality and Work Outcomes in Offshored Call Centers in India," with Das, D., & Brandes, P. 2007
Whitman Teaching Fellow, 2006-2008, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
Whitman Research Fellow, 2004-2006, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
Teaching Recognition Award sponsored by the Meredith Professorship, 2003, Syracuse University
Thomas Finucane Award for Exceptional Scholarship, 2002, School of Management, Syracuse University
Research grant from Society of Human Resource Management (2009-2010) to study national values, multiple human resource practices and organizational performance: A study across 21 countries (with Dr. Hilla Peretz)
Research grant from Society of Human Resource Management (2007-2008) to study the effects of organizational performance appraisal systems across different national cultures on organizational performance (with Dr. Hilla Peretz)
Directed executive MBA students from Bar-Ilan University, Summer 2008, with Peter Koveos and Michel Benaroch
Whitman Research Fellow, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 2008-2010.
Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management Meeting, 2007. "Reactions to Inequity as a Function of Organization Strategy: Effect of Micro- and Macro Variables." Co-authored with A. Levi, L. Markoczy, & A. Fiegenbaum.
PhD Student Achievement Award for scholastic excellence, SUNY Buffalo 2007
Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal from Fordham University Pricing Center, 2006
Honorable Mention Award for the Levy and Weitz Doctoral Dissertation proposal competition sponsored by the American Marketing Association’s Retailing SIG and the Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research at the University of Florida, 2005
2009 recipient of the McGraw-Hill/Irwin Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award for the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program.
2009 Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year for the Syracuse District and for SBA’s Region II, including all of New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
An Opportunity for Me? The Role of Resources in Opportunity Evaluation Decisions,” (Journal of Management Studies, 2008, with Shepherd & McMullen) was selected by Journal of Management Studies to represent the journal at the annual Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference, held May 28-30, 2009 at the University of Connecticut. The editors of each major journal in management and entrepreneurship select one paper published in their journal in the last year as an exemplar of high-quality entrepreneurship work that will have strong influence on the field going forward.
Recipient of the Research Promise Award from the Academy of Management's Entrepreneurship division for his paper "Entrepreneurial Action: Exploitation Decisions Under Conditions of Uncertainty," with McKelvie, A.; and Gustafsson, V.
2007 Oberwager Award for faculty who make a difference in the lives of students outside the classroom
Guttag Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, 2007-2009
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Award for Excellence in Research on the General Topic of Entrepreneurship, “Exploring The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Feedback And Adaptive Decision-making," 2007 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
Best Empirical Paper Award in Entrepreneurship, Academy of Management 2007, "I Like How You Think: The Role of Cognitive Similarity as a Decision Basis."
Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, 2007. A Syracuse University-wide award recognizing excellence in teaching by untenured faculty members. Including a $3,000 budget for personal development.
2003 Professor of the Year, an annual Whitman award, voted upon by the student body and sponsored by Beta Gamma Sigma.
Keynote speaker, 6th Annual Conference of Social Entrepreneurs, NYU Stern, Nov. 2009
2009 recipient of the IDEA Awards Foundational Paper award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management for a “classic and highly influential contribution to entrepreneurship research that serves as a legacy for scholarly work in the field” for his paper “Clarifying the Entrepreneurial Orientation Construct and Linking it to Performance," published in 1996 (with G. G. Dess).
2009 recipient of the Jack A. Dinos/Cox Family Enterprise Center Best Family Business Paper Award (with A. Yu, K. Brigham, and R. Sorensen).
2006 Recipient of the JSBM/Office Depot Best Small Business Paper Award (with H. Zhao and S. Seibert).
2003 Recipient of the Raymond Family Business Institute Best Paper Award (with W. Martin)
Inaugural Endowed (Howard R. Gendal) Chair of Marketing, 2006
Best Paper Award, 2006, AMA Retailing SIG: "Impact of Price Sensitivity And Relative Value Advantage On Optimal Brand Price under Competition," (with A. Basu and S.P. Raj)
Recipient of a 2009 IDEA award in the Research Promise category from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management for “Innovation in New Firms: The Role of Knowledge and Growth Willingness.” The award is for a paper or dissertation that has 'the greatest potential to impact the future of the field.'
Recipient of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) award in 2008 for the best dissertation in entrepreneurship for “Innovation in New Firms: Examining the Role of Knowledge and Growth Willingness."
Recipient of the Research Promise Award in 2008 from the Academy of Management's Entrepreneurship division for his paper "Entrepreneurial Action: Exploitation Decisions Under Conditions of Uncertainty," with Haynie, M.; and Gustafsson, V.
Keynote Speaker: CNY Regional Information Center: K-12 On Demand Video - Getting Ready for Widespread Usage
Guest Speaker: Streaming Media West & East 2009 and Streaming Media West 2008; North East Regional Computing 2008; Entrepreneurs Bootcamp 2006-present; Women Inspiring the Spirit of Entrepreneurship 2008; Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans 2006-present.
Judge, Electronic Communication - SUNY Council for University Advancement 2009; Capstone Business Plan Competitinon 2007-present.
Awards, Whitman Entrepreneurship Mentoring and Support Award 2008 and 2007.
Appointed Member, AREUEA Dissertation Awards Committee, 2010
Recipient of the 2009 Oberwager Award for faculty who make a difference in the lives of students outside the classroom
Received a grant from the Real Estate Research Institute for research project "Public vs. Private Market Valuation of Commercial Real Estate Assets," 2008
Best Research Paper on use of commercial real estate data for "Buyer and Seller Motivations, Bargaining Power and Transaction Prices in the Commercial Real Estate Markets: Evidence from the Section 1031 Exchange Market,” American Real Estate Society 2007, sponsored by CoStar Group.
Recipient of the Gerald R. Brown 2003 Award for Best Paper on “Real Estate and Finance”
Awarded Best Track Paper in American Marketing Association Summer Educators' Conferences for “Market Structure Determination by Analysis of Elasticity Matrix,” (with Velu, R.P. and Richards, J.), 2005.
Awarded Best Track Paper in American Marketing Association Summer Educators' Conferences for "Impact of Price Sensitivity and Relative Value Advantage on Optimal Brand Price under Competition,” (with Basu, A., and Mazumdar, T.), 2006.
Re-appointed to a three-year term as secretary, archivist, newsletter editor, and web page manager for the Public and Non-Profit Division of the Academy of Management, the leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations.
Best Article Finalist, Decision Sciences 2007, for "Channel Coordination for a Supply Chain with a Risk-Neutral Manufacturer and a Loss-Averse Retailer," with Wang, C.X.
Selected as best reviewer by Journal of Management Studies.
Recipient of the 2009 inaugural IDEA Award from the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division for “Re-Conceptualizing Entrepreneurial Exit: Divergent Exit Routes and Their Drivers,” (with K. Wennberg, D. DeTienne, and M. Cardon).
Recipient of the Research Promise award for his coauthored paper, "Reconceptualizing Entrepreneurial Exit: Divergent Exit Routes and Their Drivers," at the 2008 Academy of Management.
Recipient of the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division’s Michael H. Mescon/Coles College of Business Best Empirical Paper Award for his paper entitled "Reconceptualizing Entrepreneurial Exit: Divergent Exit Routes and Their Drivers."
