clayton doctoral dissertation proposal competition

Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition

The annual Alden G. Clayton dissertation proposal competition recognizes marketing doctoral students who are working on research questions with important marketing, societal, and policy implications. Each year, MSI grants awards and honorable mentions to the most deserving applicants, encouraging top-notch Ph.D. students to apply rigorous research methods to questions that have real business relevance.

Proposals must be submitted by July 7, 2024.

Students should be candidates for the doctorate in marketing and related fields (e.g. psychology, economics, management, strategy, etc.).
The AGC program welcomes applications from both US and international students.
Students should NOT have defended the dissertation (students can have defended a proposal).
Participation in other grant or award programs does not preclude consideration for this award.

Marketing Science Institute (MSI), Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition

Doctoral Candidates in Marketing and Related Fields

Deadline: July 31

MSI will grant up to five awards of $5,000 each in this annual competition, named in honor of former MSI president Alden G. Clayton. The competition is open to doctoral candidates in marketing and related fields (e.g., management, strategy, organizational behavior, consumer psychology, economics, etc.). The dissertation must be no more than fifty percent completed at the time of submission. Proposals will be judged on importance and potential contribution of the subject to business and academia; quality of conceptual development; feasibility and appropriateness of methodology; fit of research with MSI priorities; and creativity. Design aspects will play a particularly important role in the evaluation process.

Instructions on eligibility and how to enter the competition may be found on the MSI website ( http://www.msi.org ), or by contacting MSI's Research Director as noted below.

Ross Rizley, Research Director Marketing Science Institute 1000 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone: 617-491-2060 Fax: 617-491-2065 E-mail: [email protected]

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Marketing Science Institute (MSI) – Clayton Dissertation Grant in Marketing & Related Fields

The Marketing Science Institute is pleased to announce their annual Alden G. Clayton dissertation proposal competition. The competition is open to qualified doctoral students worldwide who are working on research questions with important marketing, societal, and policy implications. Submissions must be received no later than August 1, 2018 through the MSI online submittable portal (see link below). MSI will grant up to five awards, and each winner will receive an unrestricted cash prize of $5,000. Honorable mention awards may also be granted. Awards for 2018 will be announced in early 2019.

The competition is open to qualified doctoral students worldwide.
The applicant’s dissertation may be no more than fifty percent completed.

Marketing Science Institute Tel: 617-491-2060 Email: [email protected]

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clayton doctoral dissertation proposal competition

I am Yanyan Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Quantitative Marketing at Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. I am on the academic job market in 2024-2025.

My research applies tools from structural econometrics, Bayesian statistics, machine learning and causal inference to study the individual, social, and policy issues on digital platforms, with a focus on consumer privacy, digital advertising, network experiments, and platform analytics.

My dissertation won H onorable M ention from the MSI A lden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition , and I have published papers at the Journal of Consumer Research and the J ournal of Marketing .

Email: [email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

Working Papers and Publications

“Understanding Privacy Invasion and Match Value of Targeted Advertising” with Sha Yang.

Job Market Paper

Honorable Mention, MSI Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition

USC Marshall Ph.D. Outstanding Researcher Award

“A Representative Sampling Method for Peer Encouragement Designs in Network Experiments” with Sha Yang and Qing Liu.

Revise & Resubmit at Marketing Science

U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Pending

“Mining Consumer Minds: Downstream Consequences of Host Motivations for Sharing Platforms”, J aeyeon Chung, Gita Johar, Yanyan Li, Oded Netzer, and Matthew Pearson, Journal of Consumer Research , 2022, Vol.48 (5), p.817-838. [ Publication ]

“R2M Index 1.0: Assessing the Practical Relevance of Academic Marketing Articles”, Kamel Jedidi, Bernd Schmitt, Malek Ben Sliman, and Yanyan Li, Journal of Marketi ng, 2021, Vol.85 (5), p.22-41. [ Publication ][ Website ] Featured in AMA .

“Social Influence in Network Experiments: An SDID-BART Model” with Sha Yang.

“What Makes You Like? Bodily, Facial, or Social-Economic Attractiveness” with Kuan-Ming Chen, Ming-Jen Lin, and Yu-Wei Hsieh. [ SSRN ]

Work in Progress

“Privacy-Preserving Targeting Strategy” with Sha Yang.

“Investor Herding in Collectible NFT Auctions” with Sha Yang, Russ Nelson, and Imran Currim.

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Navid Mojir

Assistant Professor of Marketing

CB 3490, McColl 4517 Chapel Hill , NC 27599

[email protected]

Navid Mojir studies organizational buying and selling, and the implications of novel data collection and analysis technologies like the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) for the practice of business-to-business (B2B) marketing.

Dr. Mojir teaches product management.

He has worked with organizations across various industries – from the Federal Reserve to medical device manufacturers, and heavy-construction equipment sellers – to assemble proprietary datasets to study organizational buying.

His work has been published in leading marketing journals such as Journal of Marketing Research and Management Science .

Prior to joining UNC Kenan-Flagler, he was a faculty member at Harvard Business School where he taught various courses including business marketing and sales, sales and distribution channels, marketing required curriculum, and marketing models in the MBA, PhD, and executive education programs. He also served as a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan school of Management.

Dr. Mojir’s dissertation won the Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition Award, the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition Award, and the Institute for the Study of Business Markets Doctoral Support Award. He is a member of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.

He received his PhD in management from Yale School of Management, where he also received his M.Phil. and MA. He also holds an MBA in operations, a B.Sc. in civil engineering and a B.Sc. in applied mathematics from the University of Tehran.

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MSI Doctoral Dissertation Competition

Msi’s alden g. clayton doctoral dissertation competition.

Deadline: August 20, 2018

The Marketing Science Institute is pleased to announce our annual Alden G. Clayton dissertation proposal competition. The competition is open to qualified doctoral students worldwide. Submissions must be received no later than August 20, 2018 . MSI will grant up to five awards, and each winner will receive an unrestricted cash prize of $5,000. Honorable mention awards may also be granted. Awards for 2018 will be announced in early 2019. All submissions must be submitted through MSI’s online portal here .

Please encourage your eligible doctoral students to participate.

Students should be candidates for the doctorate in marketing and related fields (e.g. psychology, economics, management, strategy, etc.).
The dissertation work must be less than 50% completed at the time of submission. The thesis advisor/chair must submit a letter approving the submission and certifying that the dissertation was no more than 50% completed at the time of submission at here .
Participation in other grant or award programs does not preclude consideration for this award.
For blind reviewing purposes, please remove any identifying information (name, school, etc.) from the proposal and remove any metadata.
Please follow the instructions for how to include a separate document containing detailed contact information for you and your thesis advisor/chair.
Proposals should include a brief statement of the problem area to be researched, relevant theory and hypotheses, the methodology and analyses to be employed, and a brief indicative bibliography. Comment also on the managerial relevance of the expected results.
Title page : LastName_AGCSubmissionTitle.pdf
Main manuscript : AGCSubmissionTitle.pdf
where (i) ‘AGCSubmissionTitle’ refers to the title of the dissertation you are submitting, with spaces (and any unusual symbols and/or periods) replaced with underscores and (ii) LastName is your last (family) name.
Maximum submission length is 20 double-spaced pages, inclusive of all tables/exhibits and references. The first page should be a brief, self-contained summary of the proposal.

Experienced marketing academics will judge submissions on their potential contribution to business and academia, quality of the conceptual development, feasibility, and appropriateness of methodology, and creativity.

Please encourage your students to submit to MSI’s online portal here .

Best regards, Carl Mela, MSI Executive Director

2018 Clayton Awards Recognize Top Ph.D. Work

February 20, 2019

In February, MSI announced winners in the 2018 Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition:

Dafna Goor, Harvard University Dissertation Proposal: “Branding in the New World: How Luxury Consumption, Social Comparison, and Brand Secrecy Impact Symbolic Consumption” Advisor: Anat Keinan

Tesary Lin, University of Chicago Dissertation Proposal: “Measuring Intrinsic and Instrumental Preferences for Privacy” Advisors: Sanjog Misra and Pradeep Chintagunta

The competition, now in its 35th year, recognizes marketing doctoral students whose research focuses on questions with important marketing, societal, and policy implications. Dafna and Tesary will each receive a $5000 award and will attend the Spring Trustees Meeting in Boston.

“This competition is a singular opportunity to support promising marketing researchers early in their careers,” said Executive Director Carl Mela. “By encouraging top-notch Ph.D. students like Dafna and Tesary to apply rigorous research methods to questions that have translational business relevance, MSI is helping to create the next generation of marketing leaders.”

The 2018 competition received almost 100 submissions from doctoral students around the world, said Research Program Director Sherry Pincus. “We are delighted with their level of interest and with the high quality of their submissions, and we are deeply grateful to the many scholars who generously contributed their time to serve as reviewers.”

The competition was established in 1984 in honor of MSI president Alden G. Clayton. Many past recipients have become leading marketing academics who maintain a career-long association with MSI. The inaugural winner of the Clayton Competition was Dartmouth’s Kevin Lane Keller, MSI’s 2013-15 Executive Director.

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