• Pedagogical Innovation Award (Prix d’Innovation pédagogique), issued by HEC Montréal, Canada, in 2022

Selected for innovative training methods through Social Business Creation Competition.

• Past President’s Award, issued by the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in 2020

Selected for outstanding leadership as Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship over the period 2015-2020.

• Highly Commended Paper Award, issued by Emerald Group Publishing in 2014

Selected by the Journal of Enterprising Communities for the paper entitled “Social Capital, Networks, Trust and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Country Analysis.” (co-authored with Ekaterina Turkina). This paper presents a systematic analysis of the macro-level impact of social capital on immigrant entrepreneurship and examines the consequences of these effects. Using measures of the independent variables based on the World Value Survey, their results reveal that social capital does play a significant role in both general and high-value immigrant entrepreneurship. With strong statistical significance, three social capital factors, i.e. networking, interpersonal trust and institutional trust, explain variations in immigrant entrepreneurship across countries at a macro level.

• Pedagogical Innovation Award (Prix d’Innovation Pédagogique), issued by HEC Montréal, Canada, in 2013

Selected for International Graduate Competition’s design, a coopetition that requires interdisciplinary collaboration within teams and across teams.

• Distinguished Scholar, issued by the Academy for Global Business Advancement in 2012

Selected for outstanding research that has high impact in the business community.

• Alma Lepage Award, issued by the International Journal of Case Studies in Management (IJCSM) in 2011

Selected for outstanding quality of a case featuring a woman manager.

• Finalist Robert H. Schaffer Best Paper Award in Applied International Management, issued by the Academy of Management in 2011

Selected for authoring the best scholarly paper focusing on applied international management.

• Distinguished Service Award, issued by the East West Center in 2003

Selected for exceptional services to the East West Center’s community, which is an internationally recognized education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen understanding and relations between the United States and the countries of the Asia Pacific region.

• First Prize, issued by the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2003

Selected for creating the best business at 2003 UH Business Plan Competition.

• Social Enterprise Award, issued by the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2003

Selected for creating the best socially responsible business.

• Matson Prize, issued by Matson in 2002

Selected for outstanding academic achievement and a Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society member, with contribution to information technology research; Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a business program accredited by AACSB International.

• Beta Gamma Sigma Honor, issued by the Beta Gamma Sigma in 2002

Selected for outstanding academic achievements in a business program accredited by AACSB International.

• Asian Development Bank Scholarship, issued by the Asian Development Bank in 2001-2003

Selected for outstanding academic achievements and leadership potential.

• First Prize, issued by the Hanoi University of Foreign Study (now renamed as Hanoi University) in 1997

Selected for demonstrating the most eloquent skills and fluency in English at 1997 University English Speaking Contest.

• Hanoi University of Foreign Studies’ full scholarship, issued by the Hanoi University of Foreign Study (now renamed as Hanoi University) in 1994-1998

Selected for outstanding academic achievements.