Honors & Awards

• What's Love Got to Do with it - A call for integrating love into studies of the family firm. Keynote Address, IFERA Conference, San Sebastian, 07/01/2022
• Visiting professor - speaker at workshops. Visiting Professor - Frei University de Bozen-Balzano, 05/03/2022
• Visiting Professor. University of St Gallen, 01/01/2016
• Visiting Professor. Queensland University of Technology, 01/01/2016
• Hicks Lecture: Keynote Speaker. University of Missouri, 02/13/2015
• David Eccles Professor. David Eccles School of Business, 2009
• Distinguished Service Award - FERC (For Service to the Family Enterprise Research Center). Family Enterprise Research Center, 2008
• David Eccles Faculty Fellow. David Eccles School of Business, 2006
• UCITE Teaching Fellow. Case Western Reserve U, 2005
• Best Paper Proceedings. Academy of Management, ENTP Division, 2005
• Doctoral Teaching and Mentoring. Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve U, 2003
• Junior Faculty Best Paper Award. Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve U, 2001
• Junior Faculty Best Paper. Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve U, 2000
• Best Paper Proceedings. Academy of Management, 2000
• Best Paper Proceedings. Academy of Management, 1999
• Finalist - Best Paper Award. Strategic Management Society, 1998
• Best Paper Proceedings. Academy of Management, 1992

Professional Service

• Strategic Management Society. Role: Chair. Strategy and Entrepreneurship Interest Group. 2009 - 2008
• Strategic Management Journal. Board Member. 2008 - present
• Society for Entrepreneurship Scholars. Role: Chair. Chair & Organizer of 2008 Conference, Organize 40 member conference that was sponsored by the Kaufman Foundation and run at Solitude Dec 10 to 13, 2008. 2008 - 2008
• Entrepreneurship Divsion - AoM. Role: Co-chair. New Faculty Consortia, Co-organizer of new faculty consortia. 2007 - present
• Strategic Managment Society. Role: Chair. Strategy and Entrepreneurship Division, Serving as program chair for Entrepreneurship Interest Group at SMS. Responsible for organizing track activities (4 days) at upcoming conference in Cologne Germany. 2007 - 2008
• Society for Entrepreneurship Scholars. Role: Chair. Co-Organizer / Speaker, Served as "Senior Scholar" and co-organizer of 2007 conference, held in Columbus Ohio at Ohio State, August 2007. 2007 - 2007
• Family Business Review. Board Member. 2006 - present
• Strategic Management Society. Role: Chair. Strategy and Entrepreneurship Interest Group, Co-chair, responsible for organizing pre-conference activities for Strategy and Entrepreneurship Interest Group of Strategic Management Society. 2006 - 2007
• Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Board Member. 2005 - present
• Journal of Management Studies. Board Member. 2005 - present
• Strategic Management Society. Role: Co-Chair. Strategy & Entrepreneurship Interest Group. 2005 - 2005
• Society for Entrepreneurship Scholars. Role: Conference Co-Chair. Conference organizer. 2004 - 2004
• Journal of International Business Studies. Board Member. 2003 - present
• Journal of Management. Board Member. 2000 - 2003

Internal Service

• DESB, Academic Senate - Senator. Member, 2008 - present. University service.
• DESB, RPT - Dept Representative to School RPT. Member, 2007 - present. College service.
• DESB, Building Committee - FF&E. Member, 2007 - present. College service.
• Management, Entrepreneurship Study Group - Dept Rep on group that proposed reforms for Entrepreneurship Major - Proposals Accepted November 2007. Member, 2007 - 2008. Department service.
• DESB, Lassonde Chair Search Committee. Member, 2007 - 2008. College service.
• MGMT, Entrepreneurship Minor Proposal - Championed and wrote proposal for Entrepreneurship Minor for DESB. Proposal for Minor for University Students approved November 2007; Proposal for Entp Minor for DESB students being revisited per Faculty Vote 11/07; Approved Fall 2008. Member, 2007 - 2008. Department service.
• Strategy Group - DESB, Winter Strategy Conference - Help organize Winter Strategy Conference. co-chair, 2006 - present. Department service.
• Journal of Management Studies, Special Issue on Family Enterprise - Guest editor for a special issue on family enterprise. Papers due June 2007, estimated publication date, Spring 2009. Guest Editor, 2006 - present. Other service.
• David Eccles School of Business, Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Curriculum Committee - Review and recommend changes to undergraduate entrepreneurship Curriculum. Member, 2006 - 2007. College service.
• DESB, MBA Committee. Member, 2005 - present. College service.
• Long Range Planning, Special Issue: The Interfaces of Risk and Strategy. Co-Editor (with M. Lubatkin), 2002 - 2003. Other service.