Awards and Honors

Awards & Honors:

Tucker Endowed Fellow, GWU School of Business. 2015-.

Doctoral Student Association’s Faculty Member of the Year Award (Peter Vail Award for significant contribution to students), GWU School of Business. 

Distinguished Service Award 2012, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.

Invited to become Editor-in-Chief of the journal Policy Sciences, 2012 (declined).

Distinguished Service Award 2010, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.

Outstanding Book Award 2011, Academy of Management's Organizations and the Natural Environment Division (Received for my book: Business and Public Policy, Cambridge U. Press, 2010).

Emerald Best International Symposium Award, Academy of Management Conference, San Antonio, August 2011. (One of eight symposium presenters).

- This prize is given to the Academy of Management Conference symposium that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy of Management.

Distinguished Service Award 2010, Academy of Management.

Best paper award nominee, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management Conference, 2008.

Dean’s Research Scholar 2008-2010. School of Business, The George Washington University.

In 2007, my paper (Rivera & de Leon, 2004) examining the voluntary environmental behavior of the US ski industry was selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency among over 200 publications as one of "ten illustrative examples” of research available on the compliance and environmental behavior literature between 1999-2007. See US EPA Report at:    http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/reports/compliance/research/index.html

Zayed International Environmental Prize, given to the authors of Millennium Ecosystem Assessment for scientific and technological achievements in environment. 2006

Policy Sciences Society’s McDougal Prize for Best Published Paper, 2003.

Appointed as a Lead Author to the Policy Response Options Group of the United Nations’ Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, January 2003 to 2006.

Duke University Distinguished Service Award for “outstanding achievement and service in collegiate activities,” 2001.

Academy of Management’s 2001 Best Paper award for the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division 

Finalist for the Academy of Management’s 2001 William H. Newman Award for  Outstanding Papers Based on a Dissertation.

San Carlos University (Guatemala’s National University): Graduated with highest grades in my class, School of Chemistry’s Best Thesis Award, 1992.