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  1. So what you'll find in OB, is the schools that you typically consider "elite" from name recognition from the US News rankings, like Carnegie Mellon, Duke, USC, their faculty will be more social psych focused, whereas programs like Michigan State, ASU, Wisconsin are much more "ob" and "management focused", in terms of where their faculty are publishing. This is why those journal rankings are often inaccurate, because scholars at the top schools are publishing in much more scientific/discipline-based journals, Nature, Science, PNAS, JPSP, Psych Science, AJS/ASR, etc. which are not kept track of by these other rankings. I would say Carnegie Mellon has an exceptionally good reputation, and Michigan State is noted particularly as a place that churns out scholars and gets their students on the market with publications and into good jobs. Duke, USC, ASU would all be amazing opportunities where you could do really good work. Haven't heard a ton about Wisconsin OB although I'm sure they're fine, but their psych department is actually legendary in the history of the discipline.
  2. UCSD sent out interviews mid-January. USC seems to be moving slower than in year's past, hallmarked by how they extended their deadline
  3. damn dude I'm feeling this heaviness. You have some great strengths however, and I think all you need is the right environment for you to flourish. I have an alarming GPA as well, and what I've learned in this process is that in order to get anywhere, I've had to network my @$$ off. But in your case, if you really have well developed interests, then you know the people in your "academic conversation". Why not reach out to these different folks that you find you are citing multiple times in your working paper, who will be able to see and acknowledge your expertise in the domain, and just let them know what's up like you did here. Obviously you have to be tactful so as to not burn bridges and speak ill of your current program (although they did bend you over), but if you still have this coauthor in your corner who can let them know, yeah this student has real potential, this just wasn't the right situation for them, then maybe something will emerge. Why not at least try, because if you don't then you'll have to live with not trying for the rest of your life. I believe it was the German poet Rilke who said that the purpose of life was to continually be defeated by greater and greater battles. Struggle well, brother
  4. sounds like a strong, rich background. Did you do predoc before or after MA?
  5. Has anyone heard about any movement from CUNY Baruch Zicklin Management division? Looks like operations interviewed someone a few weeks ago, and accounting extended at least one offer, but can't find any info per Management/OB
  6. wow 10 interviews so far, that wiki is right about how it really is winner take all. Do you mind sharing the broad stats of your application, just so we all know what it takes to get this type of reciprocity from programs?
  7. what terrific insight, thanks for taking the time to write this out. What is your best sense of navigating the polarity between "adding your small contribution to the conversation" and toiling in relative obscurity for however long it takes to unearth a truly original research stream. Galileo and Darwin are heroes because their ideas triumphed. I forget the source, but remember reading or hearing somewhere that the majority of significantly groundbreaking papers in particular fields were often published outside of the mainstream/top journals. Or there's the apocryphal story of Michael Porter, who struggled to publish as a young assistant prof at HBS and felt certain doom as the tenure clock drew closer to expiring–then all of a sudden just one paper, outlining his 5 forces model, saved his career and catapulted him into management/strategy lore. Now, you might say these examples are outliers, but I wonder if the type of mindset it takes to conquer this intellectual terrain is the self-instilled belief that the ideas within you are truly revolutionary (accurate or not). Neither James Harden or Russell Westbrook is the best basketball player on the planet (LeBron James is, maybe Giannis...depends who you ask), but when either of those two lace up and step on the court to compete against LeBron, they d@mn sure believe they are. If they didn't they wouldn't be in the NBA in the first place.
  8. yeah I gotchu. What's crazy is I wonder if it's not even the faculty's fault. Under such immense pressure—with increasingly mounting tenure requirements—and probably having had to perform their own indentured servitude during their PhD, they most likely think it's just par for the course to expect the same diligence from the rising generation. I think it's just a fcked system without the ability to provide space and growth for the aspirations of the proletariat it requires. Do you think a path still exists, if any, to pursue "the life of the mind"—the romantic, intellectual trajectory of deep thinking that allows one to earnestly pursue the ideas he/she finds most meaningful, and then teach such to further the reciprocal mentor-student arrangement—?
  9. Did you feel like you got to create your own research stream or did it feel like you were highly skilled, low cost labor that contributed to your advisor's work? Kind of get the feeling this is how it goes at places like Haas where the faculty is made up of rockstars with already well established, highly productive lines of inquiry.
  10. You should just submit this survey as part of your application, I bet the right prof/adcom would see the ingenuity and admit
  11. So far just one interview from school outside top 50, waiting to hear back...
  12. I submitted this a couple months ago, so it was for 2018
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