Courses & Seminars

In addition to individual requirements from the areas of study, known as major field requirements, all Ph.D. students are required to take 13 quarter courses from outside the major field of study.
School Year Summer Fall Winter Spring
YEAR June - August September - December January - March April - June
1st
ECON - Math Camp MGMT - Marketing
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ECON - Microeconomics
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MGMT - Econometrics
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MGMT - Marketing Seminar
MGMT - Marketing
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ECON - Microeconomics
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MGMT - Econometrics
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MGMT - Marketing Seminar
MGMT - Marketing
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ECON - Microeconomics
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MGMT - Econometrics
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MGMT - Marketing Seminar
2nd
Summer Paper MGMT - Marketing
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Elective
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Elective
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MGMT - Marketing Seminar
MGMT - Marketing
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Elective
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Elective
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MGMT - Marketing Seminar
MGMT - Marketing
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Elective
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Elective
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MGMT - Marketing Seminar
3rd
Comprehensive Exam Dissertation
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Research Assistant Opportunities
Dissertation
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Research Assistant Opportunities
Dissertation
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Research Assistant Opportunities
4th
Dissertation*** Dissertation*** Dissertation***

1st YEAR

Summer

June – August
 

ECON - Math Camp

Fall

September – December
 

MGMT - Marketing
ECON - Microeconomics
MGMT - Econometrics
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

Winter

January – March
 

MGMT - Marketing
ECON - Microeconomics
MGMT - Econometrics
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

Spring

April – June
 

MGMT - Marketing
ECON - Microeconomics
MGMT - Econometrics
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

2nd YEAR

Summer

June – August
 

Summer Paper

Fall

September – December
 

MGMT - Marketing
Elective
Elective
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

Winter

January – March
 

MGMT - Marketing
Elective
Elective
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

Spring

April – June
 

MGMT - Marketing
Elective
Elective
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

3rd YEAR

Summer

June – August
 

Comprehensive Exam

Fall

September – December
 

Dissertation
Research Assistant Opportunities

Winter

January – March
 

Dissertation
Research Assistant Opportunities

Spring

April – June
 

Dissertation
Research Assistant Opportunities

4th YEAR

Fall

September – December
 

Dissertation***

Winter

January – March
 

Dissertation***

Spring

April – June
 

Dissertation***

School Year Summer Fall Winter Spring
YEAR June - August September - December January - March April - June
1st
MGMT - Marketing
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Applied Statistics
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Elective
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MGMT - Marketing Seminar
MGMT - Marketing
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Applied Statistics
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Elective
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MGMT - Marketing Seminar
MGMT - Marketing
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Applied Statistics
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Elective
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MGMT - Marketing Seminar
2nd
Summer Paper MGMT - Marketing
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Elective
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Elective
-
MGMT - Marketing Seminar
MGMT - Marketing
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Elective
-
Elective
-
MGMT - Marketing Seminar
MGMT - Marketing
-
Elective
-
Elective
-
MGMT - Marketing Seminar
3rd
Comprehensive Exam Dissertation
-
Research Assistant Opportunities
Dissertation
-
Research Assistant Opportunities
Dissertation
-
Research Assistant Opportunities
4th
Dissertation*** Dissertation*** Dissertation***

1st YEAR

Fall

September – December
 

MGMT - Marketing
Applied Statistics
Elective
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

Winter

January – March
 

MGMT - Marketing
Applied Statistics
Elective
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

Spring

April – June
 

MGMT - Marketing
Applied Statistics
Elective
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

2nd YEAR

Summer

June – August
 

Summer Paper

Fall

September – December
 

MGMT - Marketing
Elective
Elective
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

Winter

January – March
 

MGMT - Marketing
Elective
Elective
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

Spring

April – June
 

MGMT - Marketing
Elective
Elective
MGMT - Marketing Seminar

3rd YEAR

Summer

June – August
 

Comprehensive Exam

Fall

September – December
 

Dissertation
Research Assistant Opportunities

Winter

January – March
 

Dissertation
Research Assistant Opportunities

Spring

April – June
 

Dissertation
Research Assistant Opportunities

4th YEAR

Fall

September – December
 

Dissertation***

Winter

January – March
 

Dissertation***

Spring

April – June
 

Dissertation***

Seminars

 
Three different seminar series provide a collegial forum for accessing the intellectual capital you need to succeed. These seminars further prepare our Ph.D. students for research, presentation and job market success.

Faculty Seminars

These seminars are hosted by your area of study and closed to the public; distinguished faculty from other universities present their latest papers and findings.

The marketing area hosted Evan Weingarten from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania on October 7, 2016, where he presented his paper, "The Effect of Salience on Valuation: Addressing the Dual-Causality Problem in Decision Biases." The question Weingarten set out to ask was, how do individuals evaluate products? While many decades of research have proposed models of how individuals integrate information and what influences evaluations, many of them don’t address the interdependence of the accessibility of an input and the diagnosticity of those inputs determining whether or not that input will be used in judgment. Weingarten found that accessibility can influence diagnosticity, and diagnosticity can influence accessibility, contending that the framework applies not only to memory-based but also to stimulus-based decision-making. Among other explorations, Weingarten also looked at how attributes in more salient top and bottom positions of a product profile had consistently higher part-worths than attributes in middle positions

Marketing also hosted Kaitlyn Woolley from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, presenting her paper, "The Experience Matters More Than You Think: People Value Intrinsic Incentives More Inside Than Outside an Activity." Here, Wooley documented a shift in the value assigned to intrinsic incentives, finding that people value these incentives more inside an activity than outside the activity.