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I finished today! Super weekend, here I come!

count me in!

But for strategy wont the stats training actually help with future research much more than a training in econ? I would assume that in strategy you will typically be a consumer of econometrics as an empiricist.

What is so different about music? It's simply just another knowledge good, and I assume research that pertains to knowledge goods (patents, copyrights etc.) can pertain to Music. No? Am I missing something here? I thought the whole point of writing important papers was to make theoretical contributions, not apply it another industry.* * clearly, I'm feeling a little testy today :)

Could you tell us your GMAT/GRE scores too? And I'm assuming you have no previous research experience? I dont think your age will be a major hindrance, you seem to be on the cusp of the average range of 95% of applicants (made up statistic of course!)

Talking of math classes, is there a good resource for Real Analysis out there? I'm thinking ideally of video lectures the quality of Gilbert Strang's real algebra videos on MIT OCW.

What is your favorite paper (one you read recently or of all time) in the field that you are interested in? Please state the field and give us a link or a citation! Thanks.

Its called the Endowment effect :)

You should just ask them straight-up what that means. This is too important an issue to speculate on.

OK, first I hazarded the simple explanation that many more people start an econ PhD (business PhDs take 10 people per school). This is certainly true. But there is also the "social" factor to the online world. Every new person joining adds to the value of the resource, and this probably leads to an avalanche of activity beyond a certain threshold. Hypothesis only! See this forthcoming AER: "Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia" (http://blog.mikezhang.com/files/chinesewikipedia.pdf).

Almost all RA positions are paid, but there are two caveats. First they are usually given to existing PhD / Masters students that the professors know. Second, the pay is way lower than what a normal job will earn you. The upside obviously is that you get great recos, and possibly a publication.

Also you can ask the organizers if you could not pay the fee and volunteer instead, it works sometimes.

No, the bigger trick is how to travel on other people's money while you are in the doctoral program :)

I agree with longshot here. I just got an MBA and will be entering a strategy program (with similar interests to yours!). So yeah, focus on reading up, getting LORs and writing a great essay. The MBA is useful in the sense that it introduced you to business academia and gives you access to academics who will write you letters. That is significant.

I'm thinking of going to AOM -- but am wondering if the costs make sense given that a) I have nothing to present and b) I hardly know anyone in the community. I'm still thinking about it.

I think most people in Management/Strategy use stata.

Most programs are not strictly disciplinary (and a lot of people would argue that the fun of being in the business school is to do interdisciplinary stuff). The ones that are more disciplinary include MIT, Haas BPP and Kellogg MECS. Chicago should also be disciplinary, but I dunno. Most depts at Stanford GSB are also disciplinary I think, but this is just wild speculation on my part.

bonbon : Haha, I certainly can't claim to understand the Strategy literature at all. My program is closer to a biz-econ program than a "traditional" Strategy program, by all reports. On both these counts I'm not sure that I'm the best person to answer these questions. I have always been interested in what I plan to study (since I was 10!) and so choosing a field was never a big issue for me really.

Agree with yangyang2000 here. A ton of strategy research is applied econ. (mainly econometric modeling) and draws from econ theory. You probably won't see as much of game theory or other sorts of proof-based theorems, but microecon. is definitely relevant. The good thing is that you are not constrained to just econ. and you can choose to take classes in soc. and maybe draw from there too if you see fit.

I personally would not recommend quitting the job (especially if you are relatively happy there). In general, unless you are someone with significant experience my sense is that work experience does not count for much at all. The best things you can do now is target conference/minor journal publications. Also, try and have a refined idea of your research interests (via reading up on current research) and you should be fine. As for more than 3 references, I dunno how it works for econ, but I dont think business schools encourage that. Go with the ones who you think are likely to be known and who are likely to write strong letters for you. As for "mention comments from other profs in the department" -- I wouldn't ask the prof to write anything in particular, just trust that they'll do a good job. Quality matters more than quantity, really.

I know finance is super competitive but you seem to have a great chance. Definitely apply to all the top schools but make sure that you put in your safeties. The marginal cost of applying to top schools is nothing compared to the upside.

They're building a non-browser version at the moment. Its backed by CMU and a few heavyweights so I dont see it going down anytime soon. Also they should have a way to export your data to other systems, but I need to check.

Yeah, I was going to suggest Mendeley and its a close second. But the fact that zotero was meant to live in the browser, that it does tons of other stuff apart from academic papers (like videos and wikipedia pages) and that I already have a fledgling network makes it great for me. I've not written any serous academic stuff, so I'm not sure if their citation management plugins with Word/LaTeX etc are great, but I'm sure they work.

Zotero FTW!

INTP fwiw!