Awards & Honors
We’re proud of our people. Here, we share honors, awards, and accolades from across SC Johnson College.

Sachin Gupta wins inaugural research award for responsible research in marketing
A paper published in the Journal of Marketing Research by Johnson Professor Sachin Gupta has received the AMA-EBSCO Annual Award for Responsible Research in Marketing

Rudd Family Professor of Management Lin William Cong named to Poets&Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 Professors list
Lin William Cong, associate professor of finance at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named to top MBA faculty list.

2020 Best & Brightest MBAs: Deon Provost, Cornell University
Johnson’s Deon Provost MBA ’20 is named to Poets&Quants Best & Brightest MBAs list for the graduating Class of 2020.
2020 Best & Brightest: Samay Bansal, Cornell (Hotel Administration)
Samay Bansal, SHA ’20 is featured as one of Poets & Quants’ 2020 Best & Brightest.

Cornell team ‘solves the retirement puzzle,’ earns first place at the 2020 IPCC
Robert Carney, member of the winning Cornell team at the 4th Annual Investment Portfolio Case Competition, recounts his experience at the event.

Elizabeth Blau named 2020’s Cornell Hospitality Innovator
Blau, who helped transform Las Vegas into a world-class dining destination, will be honored in June 2021 in New York.

STR founder Randell Smith named 2021 Cornell Hospitality Icon
Randell Smith, who set the standard for hotel data intelligence and global benchmarking, will be honored on June 8, 2021.

Pitch competition rewards new ‘way’ to pay restaurants
The Pillsbury Institute’s pitch competition awarded top prizes to undergraduates in SHA, Dyson, and ILR and a grad student in the MMH program.

Sachin Gupta named editor in chief of Journal of Marketing Research
Sachin Gupta, the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management, will begin his three-year term with the prestigious journal in July 2020.