5:30 pm-7:00 pm
7:15 am-8:00 am
Registration for Doctoral Colloquium
7:30 am-8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 am-8:30 am
Welcome
Katlijn Haesebrouck, Maastricht University
Co-Director of the 2025 IMA Doctoral Colloquium
Small group introduction and roundtable discussion (All participants)
8:30 am-10:00 am
Panel Discussion: “Behind the Best Papers: Learning from Award-Winning Research”
Leslie Berger, Wilfrid Laurier University
Isabella Grabner, WU Vienna
Asís Martínez-Jerez, Cornell University
Wim Van der Stede, The London School of Economics and Political Science
10:00 am-10:20 am
Break
10:20 am-10:40 am
Change tables Small group introduction and roundtable discussion
(All participants)
10:40 pm-12:10 pm
Writing Workshop: “How to Craft an Introduction”
Alice Batt, UT-Austin
12:10 pm-1:10 pm
Lunch
1:10 pm-1:40 pm
IMA Presentation
1:40 pm-2:00 pm
Change tables Small group introduction and roundtable discussion
(All participants)
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Panel Discussion: “The Job Market: A Global Perspective”
David Bedford, University of Technology Sydney
Ewelina Forker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thomas Keusch, INSEAD
Xinjie (Cynthia) Ma, National University of Singapore
3:30 pm-3:50 pm
Break
3:50 pm-4:50 pm
MAS Ph.D. Student Mentorship Program Participants
- Mentorship Program participants will meet with assigned faculty mentor teams.
- Please come back to the main colloquium room by 4:50 pm.
Or
Other Participants: Roundtable Q&A with Resident Faculty
- 3:50 pm – 4:30 pm - Roundtable Q&A: Each table carries out a Q&A session with your resident faculty (e.g., coping with pressures and stress in the Ph.D. program, dissertation process, co-authorship, publication process, etc.)
- 4:30 pm – 4:50 pm - Each table presents one or two key takeaways from their Q&A session.
4:50 pm-5:00 pm
Closing & Follow-up Information
Paige Patrick, University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-Director of the 2025 IMA Doctoral Colloquium