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While a PhD progam is not going to be particularly excited about your application if you announce your intention to focus on teaching, you should know that's exactly where most PhDs end up. Look for a program that places students at predomintantly teaching schools (schools that demand their professors to teach 3 or 4 courses a semester and typically have low research requirements for tenure), and you'll be fine. Look at a program like Auburn (linked below, I grew up nearby, it's a great university, but isn't known for producing world class IS researchers). Their recent graduates ended up in places like Appalachian State, Troy State - Montgomery, Eastern Michigan, and Loyola (Baltimore). Those guys are probably making about $100k, expected to teach 3 or 4 classes a semester, and publish occasionally in lower level journals to maintain their AACSB accreditation as academically qualified faculty (at least 1 pub every 2 or 3 years). College of Business | Management PhD Alumni If you're really interested in the teaching aspect of the job, just shoot for PhD programs that place grads in teaching jobs.

I graduated in 3 years too, but from a small state college with a BS in finance and only a handful of the math courses you have (Cal 1-3, Linear Alg). My GMAT was only a 730, and I didn't have anything sexy like an NSF hookup or a great GPA (3.6). I ended up at Pitt, but the offer came (and was accepted) early, so I can't really tell you how I would have fared if I'd let the process play out. I never ran into any problems coming out quick, and again I was nowhere near as qualified as you. I second rsaylors' recommendation to apply widely, but you should be fine.

Don't waste your time picking up another masters degree. You've done well (3.66 is solid, don't worry) in previous (quantitative) graduate work and you'll bring in LORs from professors from a well known school. Apply this fall, you'll be fine.

I wouldn't worry about not having LORs from finance faculty. Econ and math LORs are very well respected, and an Econ/Math double degree (or majoring in one and minoring in another, in whichever combination you prefer) is a terrific preparation for a PhD in Finance (or strategy, accounting, marketing, econ, etc).

No, I mean 1 pub every 3-5 years PERIOD. The AACSB doesn't weight journals. Someone with 5 pubs over 3 years in Management Science is just as academically qualified as someone with 5 pubs over 3 years in the Southwestern Pennsylvania Journal of Business Practice (*fictional). Some schools (and all top schools) will certainly impose much stricter requirements, but that's the bear minimum required for the AACSB to recognize your PhD as valid. If you fail to meet the requirement, then you only count as much as a faculty member with an MBA (aka "Professionally Qualified"). Needless to say, you are worth MUCH more to a school with an academic qualification, so don't ever let it lapse.

If you already have some research experience in strategy (even if not in a field you wish to study further), a top MBA, and elite undergrad, I don't think you need to mess around with further RA stuff. You'll spend plenty of time as an RA after you enter a PhD program, and that's the best time to narrow down your interests. Get strong LORs from the faculty you've worked with (and some MBA faculty, if possible) and apply.

Career options after being denied tenure are nothing to worry about. You just move on to a position at a lower level school. The school that hires you will either hire you with tenure, or give you a tenure review in a year or two. If that's the case, there isn't an expectation that you will publish new work before your tenure review, but that they'll have some time to really get to know you and whether or not you "fit" with the department. In any case, as long as you maintain your AACSB accreditation as an academically qualified faculty member ( 1 pub every 3-5 years, depending on the level of the school), you won't have too much trouble finding an faculty slot. It might not be a great faculty spot (e.g. teaching institution with a 4/4 load), but they are out there.

I'd at least ask if they'd be willing to roll your unfunded admission over to next year. I know that isn't a perfect outcome, but I'd be surprised if they refused. I'll also second the previous posts that mentioned that we're running out of grad students here (I'm in Pitt Finance). Our 1st semester econometrics course didn't have a TA, and the outcome was less than spectacular.

Sanjai Bhagat (U. Colorado) finished a PhD in finance at UW-Seattle in 2 years. We spoke about it briefly when he presented a paper at Pitt, and he said that his MS from U. Rochester involved reading a lot of academic papers, so he just started writing his dissertation in his first semester of PhD work. Smart guy, but I don't think many of us have that kind of preparation. LEEDS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

The typical contract gives you 6 or 7 years until your tenure review, with an interim evaluation in year 3 or 4. The interim eval isn't really for tenuring early, but is more of a check to see if you're on track. It isn't unheard for a school to tell you that tenure isn't a possibility by your 3 year review (you've been here 3 years, we can tell you won't make tenure, you should start looking for another job). Outside of that, you can always request a tenure evaluation early (like year 5 or 6), and most schools don't mind.

Don't do it. If you don't have any funded opportunities this year, apply again next year and be sure to include schools farther down the rankings.

LSU and Nebraska have the best reputations of the bunch (by a considerable margin). Most on the job market might be surprised to learn that Drexel and UMass even have PhD programs in marketing.

Get SAS. You'll have to learn it eventually anyway.

I graduated a year early and sent my applications at age 20. Just make sure you come across as a rational adult following a well thought out course of action and I doubt you'll run into many problems. Spin it right and you can impress more people than you scare off, let age work to your advantage. One of my adcoms made a crack about me having a better chance to win the JBC Medal (given to the top economist under age 40), so know that everyone isn't out to get you. Good luck, and feel free to PM me if you want. I ended up accepting an early offer from Pitt, and I couldn't be more pleased.

I think it's important for future applicants to look at the range of schools you considered. You are obviously shooting for a top 10ish marketing PhD, and that's great, but let's not give the impression that your application was subpar for the great majority of schools. I feel that most would agree that you could have gotten into a top 50 program had you applied widely over that range.