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.
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.
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
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
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.
Research impact profiled in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering®, Who's Who in the World®, Who's Who in America®, selected by honor of invitation, 2008-2009.
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)
Named president-elect of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), the premier association for entrepreneurship research, teaching, and application
Selected as one of the top professors of entrepreneurship by Fortune Small Business (August 2007)
The Hilton Visiting Chair at Iowa State University, 2006-2007
Awarded the 2006 Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Service and Dedication, National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers
Selected for the "2006 Outstanding Faculty Member Award", MBA Student Association, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
Received a grant from the Real Estate Research Institute for her research project "Public vs. Private Market Valuation of Commercial Real Estate Assets"
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.
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.
