[1] By 1995, she was elected Director of MIT's International Science and Technology Initiative and appointed the Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor.

[5][6] During the 2002–03 academic year, she received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Service to the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science.

Cheap labor is not the answer, offshoring is not a fatality, and the avenues open to companies are much wider than is generally imagined.

[10] She is also a Research Associate and member of the Committee of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

In 2019, Berger was appointed the inaugural John M. Deutch Institute Professor, the highest faculty honor at MIT.