Agenda for BPS Managing Your Dissertation Workshop

Topic

Participants

Timing

Welcome and introduction

Sarah Kaplan

8:30-8:40

Perspectives on managing your dissertation

 

8:40-10:30

1.   Getting started

·  Considerations on selecting a topic and defining a question

·  Preparing and defending the proposal
 

Saikat Chaudhuri, Wharton

 

2.   Getting guidance

·  Forming and managing a committee
 

Sarah Kaplan, Wharton

 

3.   Getting moving

·  Considerations on research design

·  Practical and technical issues associated with data collection
 

Gary Dushnitsky,Wharton

 

4.  Getting a job

·  Seeking a job and preparing the job talk
 

Jon O’Brien, Notre Dame

 

5.  Getting finished

·  Writing and re-writing the dissertation

·  Defending your thesis

·  Carving up the dissertation into papers for publication
 

Jasjit Singh, INSEAD

 

6.  Special considerations for qualitative work
 

Sarah Kaplan, Wharton

 

Break

 

10:30-10:40

Breakouts

·  Participants discuss issues relevant to your stage in the dissertation

All participants

10:40-11:30

Perspectives from senior faculty

Kathy Eisenhardt, Stanford
Tim Folta, Purdue

Scott Stern, Kellogg

11:30-12:30

 

 

 

BPS Managing Your Dissertation Workshop
Academy of Management
August 13, 2006, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Marriott International Room 2

 

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