Please find enclosed useful information on ISC 2009 Doctoral Consortium (www.isc.org.il).
We would be thankful if you could share this information with relevant PhD candidates at your departments.
Israel Strategy Conference 2009 - Doctoral Consortium
The Israel Strategy Conference (ISC) will be holding a Doctoral Consortium at the ISC2009 meetings. The consortium will be held at Ben-Gurion University on Sunday, December 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
As the world of research tends to be about communicating with a community of scholars with overlapping interests, doctoral consortia generally are most valuable in providing an intimate setting for a cohort of doctoral students to get to know each other and to meet senior scholars in the field. The ISC Doctoral Consortium will be most valuable to Ph.D. students interested in conducting cutting-edge research in strategy and related areas. The consortium will be led by an international panel of senior faculty members with proven research records who will discuss promising areas for research and insights into the publication process.
The consortium coordinators are Gary Dushnitsky (Wharton) and David Brock (Ben-Gurion University). Additional faculty include: Jay Barney (Ohio State), Avi Feingenbaum (Technion), Michael Hitt (Texas A&M), Sarah Kaplan (Wharton), Anita McGahan (Toronto), Brian Silverman (Toronto), and several others TBA.
The Consortium will be comprised of three components.
- "Current and future themes in Strategy" – panelists will present their views of emerging "hot" topics in the general management field, and students will be invited to suggest ideas and jointly speculate how they may play in the wider audience of strategy research.
- "Getting published in top journals" -- a panel discussions aimed at conveying to students some proven techniques of (1) framing research questions, (2) research design, (3) packaging, (4) dealing with editors and reviewers.
- "Thesis Development workshop" – a select group of doctoral students will have an opportunity to present their research and receive guidance and commentary from senior faculty. Selection for this workshop is highly competitive. Students admitted to this program will receive a 50% discount on the ISC registration fee (the doctoral consortium will be offered at no charge to all attending students).
Application and admission
Admission preference will be given to students whose research is at the dissertation proposal stage. Doctoral students who do not wish to present their research at the thesis development workshop are still invited to apply and attend the doctoral consortium. Only those students wishing to present their research will be required to submit an abstract and a nomination letter. The dissertation ideas should be sufficiently developed to allow for a clear presentation of the theory and research design, but leave significant room for revision based on comments received at the consortium. A nomination letter by a faculty member relating to the state of the applicant's dissertation research is required as part of the application process.
To apply, please visit the doctoral consortium page of the ISC website at www.isc.org.il, complete the application form and upload the following documents:
· An updated Curriculum Vita.
· A brief abstract of your dissertation research. The abstract should be no longer than two pages of text and one page of references (adhering to the ISC proposal submission guidelines).
· A nomination letter from a supervising faculty member attesting that the student is in good standing and referring to the progress of the applicant's dissertation research.
The application deadline is Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Acceptance notification will be sent in early August.
Students attending the doctoral consortium must register to the Israel Strategy Conference (ISC). Student discount rates apply. An additional 50% discount will be offered to students presenting their research at the Thesis Development workshop.
If you have questions regarding the doctoral consortium, please contact Gary Dushnitsky at gdushnit@wharton.upenn.edu or David Brock dmb@bgu.ac.il.
We look forward to seeing you at the 2009 ISC!
Gary Dushnitsky
Assistant Professor of Management
Goergen Fellow, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
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