TIM Doctoral Student Consortium 2025

Who should apply: Ph.D. candidates researching technology, innovation, and related topics and who are preparing for the tenure-track job- market. Preference will be given to doctoral candidates entering the job market this season.

Description: The consortium is organized around three main events:

1. Job Market Bootcamp: We will discuss contemporary topics for the upcoming job marketing, such as, how to approach the job market considering the current climate, and, how to prepare for virtual or in-person campus visits including job-talks and interviews. Faculty panelists will also share tips about finishing the dissertation and transitioning from being a student to a faculty member.
2. Horizon 2030 Congrats, you landed your dream job! Now what? In small roundtable groups, we will work on a five-year visioning exercise (2025 + 5 = 2030) where you will envision your future research statement and then receive detailed feedback from a faculty mentor on how to plot your path from today to tenure.
3. Research Mentorship: Participants will pitch their research (dissertation or job market paper) to a faculty mentor and receive personalized feedback.

We will also have informal networking sessions throughout and will likely have a group dinner.

Finally, we do not want financial constraints to preclude your participation in the consortium, so please let us know if you require assistance in paying the AOM registration fee. Scholarships are limited and you will be responsible for travel costs. There is a place to request assistance on the application form.

Faculty mentors: The program will include a keynote speech by Scott Stern (MIT) and a diverse group of faculty mentors: Jiang Bian (HKU), Ryan Coles (University of Connecticut), Gaetan de Rassenfosse (EPFL), Luisa Gagliardi (Boconni), Ying-Ying Hsieh (Imperial College), Nan Jia (USC), Rem Koning (Harvard), Michael Park (INSEAD), Sanghyun Park (NUS), Henry Sauermann (ESMT).

The organizers of the consortium are Lauren Lanahan(University of Oregon) and Hyunjin Kim (INSEAD). For any questions, please email the organizers at llanahan@uoregon.edu and hyunjin.kim@insead.edu.

Application

TIM Junior Faculty Consortium 2025

Who should apply: If you are an Assistant Professor (or post-doc) and teach or conduct research in the domain of Technology and Innovation Management, the TIM Junior Faculty Consortium is for you! Applicants must be at least starting as an assistant professor (or post-doc) in an academic institution in the Fall of 2025 and have no more than six years of experience by August 2025.

Description: The Consortium will provide insights that you need to thrive in the increasingly challenging academic environment. It focuses on strategies for building a career and increasing impact as a scholar and teacher. It will feature outstanding senior faculty members with proven research and teaching records, who will lead interactive discussions about how to balance the competing pressures of teaching, research and service. They will provide first-hand and detailed advice about how to build a successful academic career in a range of different institutional settings. Most importantly, participants will receive feedback on their "research trajectory" from their peers and senior faculty.

Faculty mentors: Tentatively confirmed mentors include: Mahka Moeen (UWisconsin), Rob Seamans (NYU), Keld Laursen (CBS), Olav Sorensen (UCLA), Mercedes Delgado (CBS), Kenneth Huang (NUS), and Rosemarie Ziedonis (BostonU).

The consortium Co-Chairs are Sandy Yu (University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management) and Daniel Armanios (Oxford University, Saïd Business School). For questions, please email the Co-Chairs.

Application

Introducing: 2024 TIM Best Dissertation Award Winner

Changing the system, not the seeker: Explaining how investment organizations can produce gender disparities in startup funding

Dissertation Committee:

Siobhan O’Mahony (Chair), Rosemarie Ziedonis, Howard Aldrich, Rembrand Koning, Saurabh Lall

Why Reviewers Chose this Dissertation

• "This dissertation provides rich insights into the evaluation processes behind startup financing. It focuses on a particularly important source of bias, i.e., gender stereotypes, and meticulously demonstrates how organizational decision-making can reinforce the gender gap in startup financing. Importantly, it leverages unique access to a funding organization and experimentally manipulates evaluation processes to demonstrate how subtle changes in these can result in substantial changes in funding outcomes. The results are highly relevant for both theory and practice."
• "This dissertation offers a radically new perspective in understand (the lack of) demographic diversity in entrepreneurship. Rather than focusing on the individuals contributing to the status quo, it takes a broader view and examines the system. While the problem has been widely studied, this work provides a variety of new answers. The methodology--combining field work and experimentation, in partnership with a global accelerator--is thoughtful and effective."
• "Very thoughtful, careful research that systematically identifies how gender disparities in evaluations are produced […] highly relevant to entrepreneurship theory and practice. Cool methods and awesome data collection."
• "This thesis makes extremely valuable contributions to understanding the funding gap for female and minority innovators. Through impressive fieldwork and rigorous analysis, it sheds light on often hidden processes and offers strong implications for both theory and practice."
• "I love this research, I want the author to write at least a chapter in a textbook about early stage investing so I can use it for my class. The mixed-method grounded approach to answering the question between chapters is dogged, exacting, and entirely appropriate for the difficulty of the subject matter. Well done."

Congratulations, Amisha!

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