PhDreams – The Podcast for Academic Careers in Business and Economics

In this seventh episode of PhDreams, Alex is joined by his guests Professor Beth Fossen from Indiana University and Professor Alex Bleier from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management to discuss conference presentations. Both are among the most engaging and skilled presenters in our field. We explore tips for crafting your best presentation decks (often less is more), suggest ways to deal with...

In this sixth episode of PhDreams, we are joined by our guests Professor Abhishek Borah from INSEAD and Professor Davide Proserpio from the University of Southern California to talk about data-driven academic research. Both Abhi and Davide agree that high-quality data is key to successful research projects and that empirical results often come first, followed by theoretical explanations. We also d...

In this fifth episode of PhDreams, we are joined by our guests Professor Els Breugelmans from KU Leuven and Professor Martin Schreier WU Vienna to discuss work-life balance for academics. We find out that work-life balance is a very individual concept, which entails that there is more to life than work. We further explore that it can be useful for young academics to stay in the shadow as long as p...

In this fourth episode of PhDreams, we are joined by our guest, Professor Simone Wies from Goethe University Frankfurt. We discuss academic services, the "third mission" of academics alongside research and teaching. We talk about the various levels of services, explore which requests to accept or decline, and demonstrate how academic service and scientific excellence can coexist. Additionally, we...

In this third episode of PhDreams, we discuss the particularities of the academic job market with our guest, Professor Andreas Lanz from the University of Basel. We discuss how to make your application file stand out, why the research presentation might not be most important component of a job interview, and the pros and cons of assistant professorships versus postdoc positions. We also answer a l...

In this second episode of PhDreams, we explore the world of academic conferences with our guest, Professor Anne Roggeveen from Babson College— former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Retailing. She joins us for an inspiring conversation about everything from networking (or as she prefers to call it, "meeting") and handling tough feedback during presentations, to juggling conference travel with fa...

In this first PhDreams episode, Professor Koen Pauwels from Northeastern University joins us to talk about the publication game. Starting with the question of what young researchers can learn from marathon runners, Koen shares insights on rejections, journal lists, imposter syndrome, and the dark side of publishing from his career as an author, mentor, and current editor of the International Journ...

Hi! We are Marketing Professors Anatoli Colicev and Alex Edeling. We are here to help PhD students, postdocs and Assistant Professors in Business and Economics navigate their careers. In each episode, we will discuss topics such as publication strategies, conferences or the academic job market with renowned guests from our field and present our own experiences along the way. The podcast builds on...