Has anybody heard back from B-schools?

[asa_sl]

Originally Posted by Ancalagon The Black

Thanks for the information espresso. The ischool caucus has some good research going on there. Your point on researching along the intersection of IT and a general management area is very well taken.

Methinks, I should structure my application around strategy programs now. Anyone know any good strategy journals / conferences?

typical 3rd world ideology.

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Ancalagon The Black

Thanks for the information espresso. The ischool caucus has some good research going on there. Your point on researching along the intersection of IT and a general management area is very well taken.

Methinks, I should structure my application around strategy programs now. Anyone know any good strategy journals / conferences?

I would suggest taking a clean slate approach. As tkkoh hinted with his comment about feeling like he walked out of an econ class in his IS seminars, much of it will be "clean slate" even if you stay in IS. So just forget about IS altogether, and do your detective work on the other fields to see if those fields in and of themselves inspire you.

The further in time back from a faculty position you go, the more that you should be willing to "grind it out" to achieve your end goals. In high school, this might mean joining a few silly clubs to show you are well-rounded to get into a good uni. In uni, you have to take lots of classes outside your future academic field to fulfill requirements and get a good GPA to get into a top grad school and taking the GMAT/GRE. But grinding in a PhD will be ultra-stressful and will severely test your stamina in making it through much less doing well enough to get a nice placement. Remember that you will be spending a vast amount of time in your seminars and prepping for your prelims on the mainstream concepts of your field. So be honest with yourself in assessing your "newly adopted" field. Go into it with the intent to do research in the field itself (obviously a lot of the research "within a field" will relate to other fields, so you have to figure out for yourself what this means), and keep your IS interest only as one of many potential niche outlets of your research.

[Ancalagon The Black]

asa_sl:

. Isn't it? Lovely ideology though. My question still stands. Any good strategy journals/conferences?

bauble:

Thank you so much for the information. I am quite exposed to the fundamental aspects of business as well as the general functions of a business organization since my undergraduate degree is a BBA. Strategy does appeal to me but I thought that IS was more my cup of tea. Now I see that one can actually research IS from any angle of business research (I have been researching it from the viewpoint of Project Management but I thought differently) However, this time around my lack of mathematics courses has let me down. This semester I am rectifying it but it is too late for fall 2008.

[bauble]

asa_sl:

. Isn't it? Lovely ideology though. My question still stands. Any good strategy journals/conferences?

bauble:

Thank you so much for the information. I am quite exposed to the fundamental aspects of business as well as the general functions of a business organization since my undergraduate degree is a BBA. Strategy does appeal to me but I thought that IS was more my cup of tea. Now I see that one can actually research IS from any angle of business research (I have been researching it from the viewpoint of Project Management but I thought differently) However, this time around my lack of mathematics courses has let me down. This semester I am rectifying it but it is too late for fall 2008.

Journals: strategic management journal, academy of management journal, org science, management science, administrative science quarterly

Conferences: academy of management conference, strategic management society conference

You have a nice background and I am sure that it is great for motivating further investigation, but BBA material and Ph.D. material are quite different. Anyhow, looking through these journals (by citation rank if you want to be efficient) will certainly give you a better idea.

[Ancalagon The Black]

Hey, thanks a lot. I did manage to squeeze in a publication in Management Science this time around but the fundamentals of my application (read math, math and more math) was misplaced.

However, I love the information that you have given. Its excellent !! Thank you again !!

[AstralTraveller]

Originally Posted by Ancalagon The Black

Hey, thanks a lot. I did manage to squeeze in a publication in Management Science this time around but the fundamentals of my application (read math, math and more math) was misplaced.

However, I love the information that you have given. Its excellent !! Thank you again !!

Brother Ancalagon,

Don't know if you would appreciate this piece of contradicting evidence from your underdog brother from Latin America, but I believe that 1) UCSC is an excellent place in IT, IS and computer related studies, and 2) Prof. Stacchetti at NYU Economics holds a CS PhD degree.

I strongly believe that a CS background will be truly helpful at any Business/Economics doctoral program. I would take the chance to go to UCSC in CS, and study at least until your Master's. Then reapply or transfer to do your thesis.

By the way, please note that IS at some b-schools is simply Accounting, and closer to Strategy and Micro/IO than to "computers".

Just my 2 daktari,
AT

[Ancalagon The Black]

Hey AT, welcome back, whats the situation??

Well, I am still waiting from around 8 universities - I think that I must have been rejected from all of them - no idea.

Thanks for the information though. I have been hearing so much contradictory information about UCSC that its not funny !! Just check out the relevant thread in the CS forum.

The tradeoff I am considering is this, if I manage to get into a top Indian school in a MS in information science which for the last 50 odd years has been placing students into the top US schools and do my MS there (automatic RA - full funding, board and stipend - the govt. subsidizes everything) and then apply to top US B-Schools, the tradeoff between that and PhD in CS at UCSC.

Now one can escape with a MS from UCSC but I wouldn't want to do that - its highly unethical.

[WOFMIH]

Originally Posted by doubtful

for instance Purdue and TAMU are not second tier.... they are just in awful places

doubtful,
which ranking(s) do you go by?

[doubtful]

I applied to 15 to 30 rankings and got in three of them.

[AstralTraveller]

Originally Posted by doubtful

I applied to 15 to 30 rankings and got in three of them.

I guess one of your admissions is Fuqua. If that is the case, it is a solid top-10 PhD program (and maybe top-5 if you make me hurry), IMHO.

Anyway, congratulations. You rock