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I was thinking the exact same thing. in some strategy department is actually hard to find Phds in strategy. for instance: Research : Competitive and Organizational Strategy empirical IO all way. It could be actually difficult to get the structural econometrics skills in some strategy department, compared with in an econ department

Thank you for your answer! How difficult is going to the strategy job market with an econ phd? Considering work experience al backgroun I am a much better candidate for a strategy program. Also, I am more interested in the research in the b-school. The trainning here is good, but the placement is really bad and I am not sure why. Econ phds dont go to b-school job markets? I think I will give a try to apply to a b-school, if I am accepted in a top school (top5 strategy, top10 OM) I will change

Test Scores: GRE 166(90%)Q, 154(V) Undergrad: engineering from top univ in my continent (grades are ok) Master: MS Econ from top univ in mu continent (grades are ok) Real analysis course (+B), seems to be important in econ programs but not in b-school. Research Exp: 2 years RA in econ, 3 refered pub (2 in national journals, 1 top 5 in applied econ subfield). Attended conferences and awards for master thesis Teaching Exp: Both TA and lecturer. Work Experience: several years in a policy agency related with my research interest + 1 year finance quant in banking risk management Research interest: innovation econ, productivity, operations strategy, internationlization Concentration Applying to: Strategy, operations and innovation economics (I fell my interests are in the intersection of these 3 topics. Considering my backgroun (UG engineer + MS economics), I would prefer to attend a Strategic management program. N programs planned to apply to: 10 The program I am interested are those with high ranking in OM and strategy Dream Schools: wharthon strategy/operations, MIT Innov and entrep management program Second Schools: UCLA Strategy, Michigan Strategy, Minesota Strategy, Toronto strategy, Olin OM, Carey OM, Marshall OM, Texas OM, Ohio OM, Indiana OM, Duke Strategy Questions or concerns you have about your profile? At this moment I am in a top50 econ program but I am not really interested in the research the faculty is doing here. I would prefer to be in a department where my work experience were valuable. I started talking with some b-school faculties here to try to transfer in the same univ, but they told me to apply to other places, too. Also I am not doing really good in my coursework. I passed, but my classmates have econ undergrad + ms econ finished last year. I finished my studies 6 years ago. I mean, some of them have about 8 metrics courses and I am just now learning instrumental variable. What made you want to pursue a PhD? My work was mainly about writing policy documents and I felt I wanted to get the metrics training to do research in the field. A phd seems to be the natural next step. The thing is that I am interested in doing research with real solutions to actual problems related with topics in the operations in the corporate strategy. I also can finish the econ program here and try to get a minor in strategy. But I would like to go to the business jobmarket in strategy. The problem is that I am not in a top program thus that could complivate things to get a job in a b-school. What do you recomend me?

I totally agree with this. Having 10 years of experience in an application to a b-school is great. While for econ programs is bad. they will understand why you did not get both letters from research faculties. Ask your first recomender to emphasys his opinion on your research potential. More than been worried about that aspect I think they will be scared that you wont drop out because you will be changing dramatically the lifestyle you have been living this last years. Try to talk about that in your statement.

I studied while working full time. During 1 year. But my main purpose was improving the quant gre. Finally got 166 (90% which is fine). At least for the quant part of gre recomend wepage magoosh (700 problems) and the books: nova (300 problems), manhathan. Ets has a little book on quant prep (150 problems) but the levels of the problems is too low.the same with the Princeton Review book on quant prep.