**Apologies for cross posting.
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.
Doctoral Programs in Management: Educating Responsibly for Healthy Academic Careers PhD Programs & Academic Career
Sponsors: MED, HR, GDO, TTC
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 11 2018 10:00AM - 11:30AM at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Gold Coast
Jean Forray and Danna Greenberg (co-organizers) with Tim Baldwin, Anne Huff, Denise Rousseau and Jim Walsh
Overview
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.
We do hope you will join us.
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Danna Greenberg, PhD
Walter H. Carpenter Professor, Organizational Behavior
Babson College
Babson Park, MA USA
dgreenberg@babson.edu------------------------------