2025: Academy of Management Societal Impact Award
Academy of Management Societal Impact Award for 2025. Organization Behavior Division (OB).
https://ob.aom.org/awards/societal-impact-award; https://social-sciences.biu.ac.il/
https://ob.aom.org/ob/browse/announcements?AnnouncementKey=0a9c1b74-e415-4962-8c2f-0197ab8bfc2d
2026-2027: Awarded Senior Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at Harvard Kennedy School
2026-2027 Awarded Senior Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University, Boston. (Competitive affiliation awarded). https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wappp/research/research-fellowship-program
2020-2025 Stanford and Elsevier List Top-cited International Scientists, rank of 2% or above in the sub-field of management.
2024: Ranked 60,413 worldwide.
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7
2023: Ranked 48,893 worldwide
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6
2022: Ranked 59,732 worldwide
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/5
2021: Ranked 53,440 worldwide
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3
2020: Ranked 62,146 worldwide
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2
2024: Wiley publisher's Top Cited Article
Top Cited Article for 2024, Wiley Publisher, for a paper published in Journal of Organizational Behavior (Kark et. al., (2024). Catty, Bitch, Queen Bee, or Sister? A Review of Competition Among Women in Organizations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45(2), 266-294.
2024 Top Cited Article for 2024, Wiley Publisher, for a paper published in British Journal of Social Psychology (Frenzel, S. B., Junker, N. M., Avanzi, L., Bolatov, A., Haslam, S. A., Häusser, J. A., .Kark, R... & Van Dick, R. (2022). A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic. British journal of social psychology, 61(1),
2023-2025: Anna Boyksen Fellowship and Award for Outstanding top-level female professor- The Technical University of Munich (TUM)
2023-2025 Anna Boyksen Fellowship and Award for Outstanding top-level female professors to study gender- and diversity-relevant themes The Technical University of Munich (TUM) School for Advanced Studies, Munich, Germany.
Prizes and Honours
2020 MED (Management, Education and Development) Best Symposium in Management Education and Development Award, sponsored by Maynooth University. Symposium on: "Critical events at a critical time: Setbacks and shocks in early academic career stages.”, Academy of Management Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
2019 Forbes Magazine Best Book Selection – Our book on Creative Leadership was chosen as one pf the 10 best books on this topic in the world for 2018.
2019 Prize of finalist for the MOC - Managerial and Organizational Cognition - Division’s Best Student-Led Paper Award at the 2019 Academy of Management Conference (AOM), Boston, 2019. For the paper: Bunea,E. & Kark, R. (2019). Leisureship: The Role of Serious Leisure in Leadership Identity.
2018 Prize of the Minister of Education for Jewish Art and Culture. To Zipi Mizrachi and ‘Studio of Her Own’. An initiative that started by a BIU student, I was part of the founders and am on the advisory board. Studio of her Own – (2018) The Head of Ministry of Education.
2017-2018 Mandel Institute for Social Leadership Research Award, Women Leaders for Social Change: Between the Personal and the Political, the Center for the Study of NGOs, Beer Sheva University, Israel (With Hagit Sachar-Fadida, PhD student and Michal Frenkel, Hebrew University).
2017 Honorable Mention (Tzalash) – For the development and implementation of the Ella Course for Women Officers in the IDF. Organizational Behavior Section, Israel Defense Forces.
2016 Prize - Iconic Leaders in Social Enterprise, ALL Ladies League - Women Economic Forum, Delhi, India.
2016 Rector Prize for Outstanding Research Achievements among the Research Faculty of the University, Bar-Ilan University, Bar-Ilan University
2016 Academy of Management Annals Best 2015 Published Article Award(Honorable Mention), for paper on creative Leadership, Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA.
2014-2015 University of Queensland Competitive Research Travel Award for Research Collaborations (Brisbane, Australia).
2012-2013 Malag Grant for the Community-Academia Courses, for the development and the expenses of the Feminist Practice and Social Activism Course I developed and taught.
2012 Scholarly Contributions to Educational Practice Advancing Women in Leadership Award (GDO Division, Academy of Management - AOM, Boston
2012 Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Leadership for Safety and Self Regulation, proposal was graded - very good (without funding).
2011, Best Paper Award for the 9th International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB) conference (with Dina Van Dijk).
2008, Member of the Young Forum of Sciences and Humanities of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
2005, Best Paper Prize (#2) at the International Leadership Association (ILA).
2000, Loreal-Recanati Prize for the Study of Women and Management in Israel.