Emily Amanatullah was selected as a member of the inaugural cohort of the Society for Teaching Excellence, whose purpose is to honor assistant professors who have demonstrated a particularly strong commitment to teaching and whose members are selected by senior members of the University's Academy of Distinguished Teachers. She was a finalist in 2008 for the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award as well as a nominee for the Academy of Management’s William H. Newman Award. Furthermore, Emily was one of two recipients who was awarded the Psychology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2007 James McKeen Cattell Award for her doctoral dissertation, “Negotiating Gender Role Stereotypes: The Influence of Gender Role Stereotypes on Perceivers’ Evaluations and Target’s Behaviors in Value Claiming Negotiations and Situation Moderation by Representation Role” (with Michael Morris).

Caroline Bartel was promoted to the rank of associate professor on Sept. 1, 2010. In the academic year of 2007-08, she was awarded the McCombs School of Business’ Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors.

Ethan Burris was awarded the Hank and Mary Harkins Award for Effective Teaching in Undergraduate Classes in spring 2012.  He was promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure on Sept. 1, 2011. He (along with John Daly) was selected as a 2011 recipient of the Regents Outstanding Teaching Award, which was initiated by the UT system in recent years for "commitment to teaching through the delivery of the highest quality undergraduate instruction." Ethan also received the Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors in 2009-10 and was recognized by the Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society in fall 2009 for his achievements in strengthening the undergraduate student body. Ethan’s research was spotlighted in the spring/summer 2009 McCombs School of Business Magazine on how companies solicit employee feedback.

John Butler, Director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship as well as the IC²Institute, was honored by the Ph.D. Management Project Doctoral Students Association at the 2009 Academy of Management Conference in recognition for his outstanding service, leadership and commitment to the management profession.

Craig Crossland received a $7,500 competitive grant from the 3M Foundation in the fall of 2008 and again in September 2009 in support of his research to expand knowledge of general interest as well as to prepare students for success.

John Daly (along with Ethan Burris) was selected as a 2011 recipient of the Regents Outstanding Teaching Award. John also was awarded the McCombs School of Business’ 2007-08 Fawn and Vijay Mahajan Teaching Excellence Award for Executive Education.

Janet Dukerich has been appointed an Oxford University International Research Fellow in the Centre for Corporate Reputation. She was awarded the Harkins & Company Centennial Chair in spring 2009.

Jim Fredrickson became the chair of the Department of Management on June 1, 2010. He also is McCombs’ first Director of Teaching Development. Jim was awarded the Joe D. Beasley MBA Teaching Award in spring 2007.

Melissa Graebner, was promoted to associate professor on Sept. 1, 2010. Moreover, she won the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) Best Paper Award for 2009 for her paper, “Caveat venditor: Trust asymmetries in acquisitions of entrepreneurial firms,” which provides a detailed analysis of trust in buyer-seller relationships. This paper received widespread coverage in the press, including the articles "Sellers Beware: Study Finds Distrust in Buyers" in the New York Time's Deal Book and "Buyers are Liars" on Forbes.com.

Dave Harrison received the Academy of Management Journal’s 2010 Outstanding Reviewer Award for having the highest cumulative quality rating among board members. In 2011, he received the Academy of Management's Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) Division's Career Scholarly Contributions to Management Award, sponsored by Sage Publications, for his theoretical and empirical research on surface- and deep-level forms of diversity. 

Andy Henderson  was awarded the J. Anderson Fitzgerald Centennial Fellowship in spring 2009. 

Dave Jemison was selected as the Outstanding Professor by the Texas Executive MBA class of 2010. 

Kyle Lewis was awarded the CBA Foundation Advisory Council Centennial Fellowship #1 in spring 2009.

Francisco Polidoro was one of two recipients who was awarded the 2008 Likert Dissertation Paper Award, which is given every other year by the University of Michigan’s Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies to the author of a paper based on a dissertation that makes the most significant contribution to organizational studies. He also received the following awards at the 2007 Academy of Management Annual Conference: Best Dissertation Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division; Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division; and the ABCD (Outstanding Reviewer) Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division.

Violina Rindova was selected for the 2012 Award for Scholarly Contribution by Strategic Organization for her 2007 article, "Standing out: How new firms in emerging markets build reputation" (with Petkova and Kotha); the award recognizes the authors who have made exceptional contributions to the field by selecting the most outstanding article (and esssay) that was published in SO five years earlier. Violina also was chosen as the winner of the 2010 Best Published Paper Award, given by the Centre of Corporate Reputation at Oxford University, for her 2010 Academy of Management Journal paper titled, "A tale of two assets: The effects of firm reputation and celebrity on earnings surprises and investors' reactions" (coauthored with her former student, Mike Pfarrer, and Professor Tim Pollock of Penn State). Violina was named the Ralph B. Thomas Professor in Business in spring 2010 and was promoted to the rank of full professor on Sept. 1, 2009. Violina was awarded the 2008-09 McCombs Research Excellence Award. In spring of 2010, she became a Humanities Institute faculty fellow. Moreover, Violina won the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Thought Leader Award in 2008 for her paper, “Market watch: Information and availability cascades among the media and investors in the U.S. IPO market,” which is representative of the best published papers in entrepreneurship.