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Invitation to PDW on Doctoral Education

  • 1.  Invitation to PDW on Doctoral Education

    Posted 07-31-2018 18:47

    If you are a doctoral program director, a faculty member who works closely with doctoral students, or someone who hires early career academics,
    we wish to draw your attention to this PDW opportunity at the upcoming Academy of Management Meeting. Please note that
    pre-registration (no fee) is requested but not required.

    Program Session: 289 | Submission: 10547 | Sponsor(s): (MED, HR, GDO, TTC)
    Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 11 2018 10:00AM - 11:30AM at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Gold Coast

    Doctoral Programs in Management: Educating Responsibly for Healthy Academic Careers

    Presenter: Jean M. Forray, Western New England U.
    Presenter: Danna Greenberg, Babson College
    Discussant: Timothy Baldwin, Indiana U., Bloomington
    Discussant: Anne S. Huff, Dublin City U.
    Discussant: Denise M. Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon U.
    Discussant: James P. Walsh, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    This PDW engages multiple AOM stakeholders – PhD program administrators, doctoral program faculty, and those who hire
    early career academics – in a re-visioning of the purpose and design of management doctoral programs. While management
    education has changed drastically in the past two decades, doctoral education remains largely the same. Doctoral programs remain
    focused primarily on training graduate students to become research scholars and to pursue tenure-track positions at similarly
    prestigious research-focused institutions. Yet in today's competitive landscape of business education, doctoral students are more
    frequently finding they are unable or don't want to craft an academic career focused predominately on scholarship.

    This session will begin with discussion from a recent research study of how academics construct their career narratives from the time
    they consider entering a doctoral program through the doctoral program and into first full-time position. We then invite a group of
    expert doctoral advisors and program directors to share their perspective on the research and its relevance for doctoral programs.
    The majority of our time together will be spent in small group discussions as we consider what this research means for doctoral education
    from the perspective of administrator, faculty, and hiring institution. Through these discussions we hope to consider how to build a more
    inclusive path to academia that values diverse career models.

    Pre-registration is requested.



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    Danna Greenberg, PhD
    Walter H. Carpenter Professor, Organizational Behavior
    Babson College
    Babson Park, MA USA
    dgreenberg@babson.edu
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