| 2018 | Completed $30 million fundraising campaign for the Lauder Institute |
| 2018 | Rededication and renovation of the Lauder Institute building |
| 2015 | Appointed trustee of the Fundación Princesa de Asturias, the royal foundation of Spain |
| 2014 | Delivers Otto Krause Memorial Lecture at the University of Johannesburg |
| 2014 | Nominated to the Anvil Teaching Award by a vote of all Wharton MBA students |
| 2014 | Delivers Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University |
| 2013 | Delivers the Laurent Picard Distinguished Lecture at McGill University |
| 2013 | Elected member of the Sociological Research Association |
| 2013 | Wins Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award |
| 2012 | Wins Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award |
| 2010 | Wins Wharton Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award for his class on the Global Economic & Financial Crisis |
| 2007 | Appointed Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies at Penn |
| 2005 | Wins the IV Fundación Banco Herrero Prize, awarded annually to the most promising Spanish social scientist under the age of 40 |
| 2004 | Elected Fellow of the Macro Organizational Behavior Society |
| 2003 | Co-winner of the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award, American Sociological Association |
| 2003 | Appointed as Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professor of International Management |
| 2003 | Promoted to Full Professor at the Wharton School |
| 2000 | Wins Wharton Core MBA Teaching Award |
| 2000 | Wins Wharton Core MBA Teaching Award |
| 1998 | Appointed as Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| 1998 | Selected as Guggenheim Fellow |
| 1997 | Wins Gulf Publishing Company Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management |
| 1996 | Made eligible as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences |
| 1996 | Joins faculty at the Wharton School, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Sociology at Penn |
| 1993 | Wins President’s Book Award of the Social Science History Association |
| 1992 | Joins faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management |
| 1992 | Receives PhD in Sociology, Yale University |
| 1992 | Finalist, American Sociological Association Best Dissertation Award |
| 1991 | Winner of the Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights |
| 1991 | Receives Doctorate in Political Economy, University of Oviedo |