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MOC/OMT Doctoral Consortium: Call for Nominations of Students

  • 1.  MOC/OMT Doctoral Consortium: Call for Nominations of Students

    Posted 04-03-2008 10:00
    Posted by administrator on behalf of Jenny Rudolph (JWRudolph AT
    partners.org) and Mary Anna Glynn (glynnmg AT bc.edu)

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    MOC and OMT are pleased to announce their annual Doctoral Student
    Consortium will once again be part of the pre-conference activities at
    the Annual Academy of Management Meeting in Anaheim. Continuing the
    partnership started a few years ago, OMT and MOC co-organize this
    Doctoral Consortium to help doctoral students organize their thoughts
    about the final phase of their doctoral programs, advance their
    research, publish their dissertation or parts thereof, find a job in the
    academic or professional world, advance their career and generally
    achieve happiness and enlightenment.

    Following on the success of last year's consortium, we will retain
    previous innovations that allowed for greater degrees of personalization
    and interaction between faculty and students. In addition to the
    traditional stand-up presentations by our distinguished group of
    panelists, who will discuss what it means to conduct 'great' research
    and dispense various pearls of wisdom about all the different ways to
    successfully manage your career, each session includes roundtable
    discussions where participants will be able to interact with a
    distinguished group of faculty in a small-group format to gain and share
    additional insights. We will also once again conduct our highly popular
    research roundtables session, where participants will be offered the
    opportunity to discuss their dissertation research with distinguished
    scholars in the field.

    As a new innovation this year, we and the OMT Junior Faculty Consortium
    are jointly sponsoring a teaching roundtable session where students and
    junior faculty members can sit down with distinguished faculty and learn
    how they have incorporated organization theory and managerial cognition
    into the undergraduate and MBA elective courses that they teach. Syllabi
    and other teaching materials will be made available to all interested
    participants.

    As always, Sunday will include our Meet the Editors session, where
    participants will be able to ask questions, again, in a round table
    format, of editors from all the top journals.

    For the sake of intimacy we will be maintaining a low
    faculty/participant ratio. Thus, space in the consortium is limited.
    Maintaining a low ratio ensures that the Doctoral Consortium provides
    opportunities to accommodate the increasing diversity of participants'
    backgrounds, experiences, and desires, and creates plenty of
    opportunities to ask specific questions of our panelists and facilitators.

    In addition to conference co-organizers Tim Pollock (Penn State
    University) and Jenny Rudolph (Harvard Medical School), and their
    assistant co-organizers Diane Burton (MIT) and Kevin Corley (Arizona
    State University), the following scholars (listed in alphabetical order)
    have generously agreed to contribute their time and effort to the
    development of the OMT-MOC doctoral consortium's participants:

    Distinguished Panelists

    Steve Borgatti (University of Kentucky)
    Glenn Carroll (Stanford University)
    Lisa Cohen (London Business School)
    Karen Golden-Biddle (Boston University)
    Majken Schultz (University of Copenhagen)
    Jim Westphal (University of Michigan)

    Roundtable Facilitators

    Forrest Briscoe (Penn State University)
    Amy Edmondson (Harvard University)
    Melissa Graebner (University of Texas-Austin)
    Mary Jo Hatch (McIntire School, University of Virginia & Copenhagen
    Business School)
    Mike Lounsbury (University of Alberta)
    Nelson Phillips (Imperial College, London)
    Davide Ravasi (Bocconi University)

    IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The deadline for nominations is May 15, 2008,
    but before you rush to email us please read on. The number of
    participants is limited, and we anticipated more applications than
    spaces available. You can apply as early as you want, but no earlier
    than March 31, and no later than May 15, 2008. To apply, interested
    students must be nominated by their schools. No university can nominate
    more than two students, and each doctoral program is limited to one
    nomination. Universities with multiple departments seeking to send
    students need to coordinate their nominations. In making the decision to
    accept students, preference is given to those who have made the most
    progress toward completing their Ph.D. program. Since we are
    anticipating more applicants than spaces, preference will also be given
    to those who apply early.

    The Consortium is not open to those who have already completed their
    Ph.D., regardless of circumstances. If this is your case, you may want
    to consider attending OMT's Junior Faculty Consortium instead.
    Applications should be sent by the department representative who
    nominates the student and should include the following in the body of
    the email: the nominee's name, address, e-mail address, phone and fax
    numbers, name of affiliated school and university, the division (OMT or
    MOC) being submitted to, and a statement from the department certifying
    the nominee's completion of doctoral coursework and comprehensive exams
    by August 1, 2008. Also attach the following three items to your e-mail:
    (1) a brief letter from a faculty member providing a general appraisal
    of the nominee, including an assessment of his/her progress toward a
    dissertation defense, expected defense date, and subject of
    dissertation; (2) a one-page bio summarizing the nominee's contact
    information, research and teaching interests, and publications (this
    one-page bio will be distributed among consortium participants); and (3)
    a three to five page summary of the student's research project (typed
    and double-spaced, 12 point times roman font, one inch margins. No
    single spacing or micro-fonts please.). This summary should include:
    research question, rationale, hypotheses / propositions, (proposed)
    methods (if applicable), and results (if applicable). Once roundtable
    assignments are made, the Consortium organizers will distribute research
    summaries to members of each roundtable. Please send nominations and
    supporting materials by electronic mail to BOTH conference organizers by
    May 15, 2008. INDICATE SPECIFICALLY WHICH DIVISION (OMT or MOC) YOU
    CONSIDER YOUR PRIMARY AFFILIATION. Please note that incomplete
    applications will be delayed. If you are unsure whether we have received
    all of your materials, feel free to email either Tim or Jennifer. We are
    happy to help.

    OMT: Tim Pollock tpollock(AT)psu.edu - To protect us from spambots, we
    have altered the email. Please replace the (AT) with the corresponding
    symbol.
    MOC: Jenny Rudolph JWRUDOLPH(AT)PARTNERS.ORG - To protect us from
    spambots, we have altered the email. Please replace the (AT) with the
    corresponding symbol.


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    The W.E. Carroll School of Management - Organization Studies Dept.
    432 Fulton Hall - 140 Commonwealth Ave. - Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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