Honors & Awards

  • Annual Teaching Award, “Preis der Lehre”, awarded for Excellent Teaching at the WFI – Ingolstadt School of Management over the previous two semesters, July 2020.
  • Competitive Research Grant – 1st Place – awarded by the  Center for Positive Marketing and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), New York, February 2019.
  • BRIGHT MBA Faculty Luminary Award for Best Professor in the BRIGHT MBA Program,  Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, May 2018
  • Bostic-Georges Pace Setter Faculty Service Award, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, March 2018
  • Fellow, OSTEP Faculty Learning Community, University Center for Advancement of Teaching, The Ohio State University, 2017-2018
  • Outstanding MBA Core Class Professor” Award, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, May 2016
  • Favorite Business School Professors Teaching MBAs, Poets & Quants, August 2016
  • Ohio State University Leadership Awards, by Office of Student Life, “Outstanding Advisor for a Student Organization (for AMP)”, April 2016
  • Daniel Westerbeck “Pace Setter” Teaching Excellence Award, Pace Setter Award Ceremony, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, March 2015
  • Invited Guest Professorship at the Ingolstadt School of Management, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014
  • Undergraduate Program Award for Outstanding Service, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, March 2014
  • Audi Guest Professorship at the Ingolstadt School of Management, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, Summer 2013, Summer 2012
  • Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Nominee, Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
  • MBA Elective Teaching Award by the Department of Marketing & Logistics, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, 2012
  • Nominated for the Outstanding Faculty Award by the Alumni Association of the OSU Sphinx Senior Class Honorary, The Ohio State University, March 2011 and March 2009
  • Best Research Paper award at the International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, September 2010
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, February 2010
  • Marketing Professor of the Year, Ohio State Chapter, American Marketing Association, 2008
  • Consortium Faculty, AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium, Arizona State University, May 2007
  • Winner of the AMA SERVSIG Award for the ‘Best Paper in Services, Published in 2005,’ for “Inferences about the Brand from Counter-Stereotypical Service Providers,” Journal of Consumer Research32 (2), 196-206 (co-authored with Valerie Folkes).
  • Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, University of Southern California, May 2006
  • Fellow, AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, July 2005
  • Winner of the 2004 Liam Glynn Scholarship for the Most Promising Young Scholar in Services, awarded by the Services Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association
  • Winner of the 2004 CIBEAR Doctoral Dissertation Grant, USC Marshall School of Business
  • 2004-2005 PhD Excellence in Teaching Award, Marketing Dept, USC Marshall School of Business
  • Winner of the Best Paper Presentation Award at the 5th Annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Conference, Sydney, Australia, August 2004
  • Recipient of the university-wide Provost’s Award to represent University of Southern California at the 5th Annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Conference, Sydney, Australia, August 2004
  • Chosen from a university-wide selection of 15 doctoral students to participate in The Future Professoriate, a one-year program conducted by University of Southern California’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, 2005