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. |