Management Faculty Honors

• 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.

• Best Paper Proceedings, 2010 Academy of Management, for "When and How Rewards Increase Creative Performance: A Theoretically-Driven Meta-Analysis" (with Khazanchi, S. K.)
• Top 10 reviewer for the Journal of Organizational Behavior 2010
• 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." Best Paper 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.

• Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Syracuse University Alumni Association, 2005
• Inaugural Core Faculty, Renee Crown University Honors Program, Syracuse University, 2004 – 2006
• Gateway Teaching Fellowship, Syracuse University, 2004 – 2006

• Panelist on "Entrepreneurship in Corporations" at the Third International Entrepreneurship Summit, hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
• 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

• Editor of a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior on the topic of job design, Volume 31, Issue 2-3, 2010
• 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.

• Whitman Teaching Fellow 2010-2012
• 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.

• Named an outstanding editorial board member of the Strategic Management Journal

• Elected associate program chair of the strategy process interest group of the Strategic Management Society

• 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.