Last semester, I was asked to give a lecture to help masters students survive their thesis. I gave a very quick presentation with some very basic recommendations that probably seemed very vague. I’ve been getting emails and messenger questions about the topic ever since and I know that students are generally worried, confused, and in great need of some practical advise.
The authors of Orgtheory.net published a a very comprehensive guide on this issue with some excellent graduate school advise. I’d say the most relevant of those are relevant for both IIMBA MBA and PhD students :
- #1: Get the rules!
- #2: The unwritten rules of graduate school.
- #4: How to make the best of course work.
- #5: Graduate school exams.
- #6: Why friends are important.
- #7: Picking your adviser.
- #8: Choosing people for your committee who aren’t the chair.
- #10: Choose a dissertation topic.
- #11: What to do while you are working on the dissertation.
- #12: Writing your dissertation, part 1.
- #13: Writing your dissertation, part 2.
- #14: Sorry, you can’t write your dissertation in 15 minutes a day.
- #15: Working With Your Committee
Read those, they are very helpful.
Good luck.
(Following is the presentation I gave)
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