Awards

• Aspen Institute Rising Star Award (2010)

• Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship (2009), Inaugural recipient of $50,000 research award for junior faculty making significant contributions to entrepreneurship research

• Teaching Award, Cross Continent MBA Program, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business (Class of 2007)

• Hayase Award (2006), Awarded to the Ph.D. student who has made significant contributions to the doctoral program

• NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group Travel Grant (2006)

• Roundtable on Engineering Entrepreneurship Research (REER) Best Student Paper Award (2005)

• The Center for Sustainable Enterprise (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Grant Recipient (2005)

• Ewing Marion Kauffman Dissertation Fellow (2005-2006)

• Travel Award for Entrepreneurship Division Doctoral Consortium, Academy of Management (2005)

• Levi Strauss Small Grants Recipient (2005)

• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Grant with Professor David Mowery (2004-2005)

• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Fellowship for Summer Intensive Ph.D. Seminar in Entrepreneurship, Case Western Reserve University (2004)

• United Nations Industrial Development Organization Research Fellow (2004)

• Recipient of Haas School of Business Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2003, 2004)

• Bradley Foundation Fellowship (2003-2004)

• Institute for Management, Innovation, and Organization Fellowship (2001-2006)