Evan Porteus
Sanwa Bank Professor of Management Science
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Tenure
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Background
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Current Trends
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Pitfalls
of the University System
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Strategy
for Achieving Tenure
Background
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Reasons for
It
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Criteria
for Attainment
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How Tenure
Review Works
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Myth of Life
After Tenure
Current
Trends
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Teaching
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Bridging
Theory and Practice
Pitfalls
of the University System
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Academic
Feedback is almost all Negative
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Every professor
is a mini-CEO
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External
positive reinforcement comes from teaching and not research.
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To enjoy
yourself you must enjoy teaching.
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To enjoy
yourself you must LOVE doing research.
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You must
publish.
Strategy
for Achieving Tenure
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Getting Your
Research Published
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Quality vs.
Quantity
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How to Hit
Home Runs
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Research
Collaboration
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Multidisciplinary
Research
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Career Evolution
Getting
Your Research Published
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Develop a big
ego and a thick skin
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Look for ways
to interpret negative referees' reports positively
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Be persistent:
Keep revising and resubmitting
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Be pragmatic.
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Emphasize the
positive about others' work and your own. (Avoid criticism and even slight
insults of other authors.)
Quality
vs. Quantity
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One home run,
combined with mostly very good work, and nothing embarrassing can get you
tenure
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One Strike out
(bad paper) can cost you tenure: Publish and perish
How to
Hit Home Runs
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Read the Literature
after doing the research
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Make it easy
for readers to understand your ideas. EMPHASIZE CLARITY!
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Dantzig Theorem:
Don't put more than one major idea in a paper
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Stress opening
up an area, not completing the research in it
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Know your audience
and write explicitly for it
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Consider writing
papers for more than one audience.
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Translations
of theory to practice
Research
Collaboration
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Do Both Joint
Work and Singly Authored Work
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Accept and seek
out mentors in your new institution
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Invest time
to inform/educate/impress your peers, not just your seniors
Multidisciplinary
Research
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Big need
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But a dangerous
road
Career
Evolution
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Pursue Your
Loves
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Move on the
bridge from theory/method/technique toward practice
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Always work
on improving your teaching