Game Plan

[nirvelli_lynn]

Things are going well for me... very well in fact.

1. Passed Exams and am now ABD
2. Dissertation papers 1 and 3 were accepted. Still working on 2.
3. My paper with Arvin (Also my dissertation paper#1) on Alliance governance & formation at IPO was accepted to Babson. This is really good news. In fact, every paper that was submitted by PhD students at WSU got into Babson, including Doug's on which I'm second author. Keeping in mind only 200 papers were accepted, this is awesome.
4. I think I have all 3 dissertation ideas solidified. I'll meet with Jonathan tomorrow to discuss this further
5. The Stigma paper that was my original 2nd year paper (and after a year in review was rejected by AMJ) has been revised and we now have double the sample size. We were originally planning to send it the Jounal of Management (JOM) but the results are so good that we've decided to send it to Strategic Managment Journal (SMJ), which is an "A" level paper.
6. We have decided to repackage the Information Asymmetry paper that we presented to Babson to the Darden Conference. Jonathan recommends it as us getting out on the market as much as possible this year is ideal. The only hang-up is the amount of traveling (and therefor expense) that I will have to do.
7. The managerial capabilities paper (I'm 2nd or 3rd author) will be send to the AOM conference
8. I meet Kristine tomorrow re: the Etsy paper. I may see about sending that to AOM** The Etsy paper still needs to be written and "aimed" somewhere... tomorrow we discuss where.
9. On the downside, the results for the Reputation Repair paper (aka Org Science as this the target) is problematic. This is the paper that we spent a month collecting data for during comps prep (aka hell). None of the regressions come out. We are considering a Survival Analysis but that needs more data... thus I think that is dead in the water, probably until May. However, this was not a complete loss as part of this data collection helped us finish the Stigma paper that we're sending out this week.

Works in Progress this month:

• Information Asymmetry paper - email tomorrow to Darden
• Stigma paper - update methods, edit for SMJ format, send out to co-authors D & J (with deadline), send to SMJ before Dec 20
• Reputation Repair (Org Science) - hold off and come back to after defended my proposal
• Alliance Governance at IPO (Dissertation #1) - hit this hard and collect data. Ideally (if unlikely) have completed by Jan 10 for AOM conference submission

Works in progress otherwise:

• Status at IPO (Dissertation #2?) - Data collection simutaneous with other Alliance/Dissertation paper.
• Distance between Underwriters & VC; Agency Issues at IPO (Dissertation #3) - plan data collection and have data by May.

**The push for the AOM Conference is because that is when I'm officially on the job market and I need as many signals of quality as possible if I choose to go on it... much of my decision to go on the job market will depend on the SMJ.