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    Can you summarize the PR process for intl students in Canada? I thought you needed a fulltime job to qualify for the PR process.
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    Do management/OB/strategy faculty in T50 departments have opportunities to consult on the side? Economics professors often serve as expert witnesses for litigation consulting firms. What are comparable options on the management side?
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    Thanks. Sauder's program looks very rigorous. If you are in the know, can you shed light on what the job market looks like for grads from the econ-heavy strategy programs listed above? Specifically, which departments (or groups within departments) hire these grads? I assume grads from these programs conduct research that is more strategy-heavy than the research coming out of traditional econ departments. At the same time, I also assume that the research in these departments differ from the research coming out of traditional management groups at bschools. Who comprises the demand side?
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    Hello URCH community! Earlier I had come across a google doc that provided job market outcomes (interviews, acceptances, etc.) for candidates in the bschool job market. Unfortunately, I have lost the link. Can someone please provide this link?
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    I'd add Northwestern MECS, MIT TIES, and maybe Berkeley Haas BEPP to the list. I know the first two have quant training and are strategy focused. Haas is quantitative, but less strategy-focused.
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    Thank you for all your advice. This is very helpful. Can you clarify what you mean by PA? How is this different than a TA or RA? May I send you a PM for a different question?
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    Thanks for your thoughts. My goal was to see if I can reduce obligations to work as a RA/TA, while still preserving the opportunity to take-up these roles. I definitely intend to work as both an RA and a TA, however, I'd prefer to have the flexibility to decide whether/how much I want to work in these roles during any given semester. I have a reason for trying to reduce RA/TA obligations. Through forums such as these, and through interactions with current grad students, I have learnt that TA/RA responsibilities can sometimes crowd-out the time that students devote to their own research and job market papers. From what I understand, these students were obliged to perform these duties because their funding came with the condition that they fulfill a certain amount of TA/RA responsibilities. It seems that these students would have been better-off if they had the option to choose the amount of time they invested in such responsibilities.
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    Yea, it has vanished from my portal as well
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    Thank you. I am looking at phdstipends.com. It is very helpful.
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    Also, how do these negotiations normally proceed? Does the candidate quote a desired amount, or do they just inform the school that they are seeking better funding and hope the school comes back with a reasonable improvement? Further, is it poor form to request a funding increase and later reject the school's offer once funding has been increased? This is important for timing of the negotiation.
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    Thanks. This is precisely what I was thinking. Because their current students are surviving on the same stipend, it seems impossible to negotiate better funding if I don't have better-funded offers from comparable schools (comparable in quality, fit, etc). However, if I receive better-funded offer from comparable schools, it seems reasonable to ask the school to match. It seems it is possible to negotiate the offer along multiple dimensions. One could ask the program to hold funding constant but reduce/eliminate TA/RA obligations. One could ask the program to add more money, without any changes to existing TA/RA duties. One could ask for both increased money and reduced responsibilities, although this seems too ambitious. These were two variables that immediately jumped at me. What are other levers that applicants can push when negotiating? Along which dimensions would you negotiate?
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    I am evaluating a few offers I have received this cycle. The funding ranges from 30k/year to 40k/year, with various mixes of fellowship and RA/TA responsibility. Ideally I'd compare these offers against the full distribution of funding offers given to business phds, but that data is obviously not available. In the absence of such data, can you please give me your thoughts on whether 30-40k/year is a decent offer? How does it compare to the median offer? Do funding offers vary by concentration: Finance, Accounting, Strategy, Marketing and Bus Econ? If so, what are approximate averages for these different concentrations? Also, does funding vary by school ranking? What are average offers in the T20, T50, etc? Just another applicant trying to inform himself before making a decision.
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    Which Kellogg program are you talking about and were you invited for an interview? I applied to MECS and haven't heard back.
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