2025 OMT "Navigating Your First Years of the PhD" PDW
Call for Nominations
Organizer: Emilio J. Castilla, OMT Division Chair
Nomination Deadline: Friday, May 9th, 2025
We are delighted to share that the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) division will again host our Professional Development Workshop (PDW), "Navigating Your First Years of the PhD," at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting. The event is tentatively scheduled to take place in person on Saturday, July 26, 2025, in Copenhagen.
This workshop is aimed at PhD students in the early stages of their PhD. Participants explore with experienced scholars how OMT scholarship and the OMT Division can help them turn their research ideas into robust and impactful academic knowledge. They also share with other participants their experiences as doctoral students and begin to build their own international networks.
The PDW will include a combination of the following activities:
· Interactive roundtables with experienced OMT scholars and other student participants for discussing research interests
· A "mini OMT Meetup" for 1-on-1 interaction between students and OMT executive committee members, modeled after our popular year-round OMT Meet Ups program
· Panel Q&A to ask questions and hear about OMT research trends, careers, and opportunities in the division
· Networking opportunities with peers and faculty participants
Confirmed OMT Executive Committee participants include the following (more may be added):
Emilio J. Castilla, OMT Division Chair
Wendy Smith, OMT Division Chair-Elect
Joel Gehman, OMT Division Program Chair
Silviya Svejenova, OMT Division PDW Chair
Eva Boxenbaum, OMT Past Division Chair
Forrest Briscoe, OMT Past Division Chair
Emily S. Block, OMT Rep-at-Large
Ilaria Orlandi, OMT Division Member Outreach Chair
Kevin Lee, OMT Division Communications Chair-Elect
Andrea Prado, OMT Rep-at-Large
The PDW is designed to allow for high levels of faculty-student interaction. Space for this event is limited in order to maintain a high faculty/student ratio. Interested students must be nominated by their PhD supervisor or the coordinator of their PhD program and must be OMT members (or join now).
Nomination Instructions:
The student's PhD supervisor or PhD program coordinator should nominate the doctoral student. The nomination should include the following information:
1. Student's name, e-mail address, department, and university
2. A sentence confirming the student is (or will become) a member of the OMT division
3. A sentence confirming the student is enrolled in year 1 or 2 of the PhD program
4. Attach the student's CV, including contact information
5. Attach a 1-page bio for the student that includes their initial research interests and/or project ideas (written by the student!)
Please submit the nomination form using the following link: https://forms.gle/r7GQxXAroGx6rsvt6/. (The form is set up to automatically record that the PhD supervisor or PhD program coordinator is submitting the nomination.)
Alternatively, the student's PhD supervisor or PhD program coordinator may email the nomination directly to the organizer, Emilio J. Castilla, at ecastilla@mit.edu no later than May 9th. Be sure to include the information listed above in the nomination email.
Nominators will be notified by May 23rd on the outcome of their nomination. Additional information about the PDW will be available on the OMT website closer to the date of the event.
For any questions, please contact Emilio J. Castilla at ecastilla@mit.edu.
Warm regards,
Emilio J. Castilla
OMT Division Chair 2025
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Emilio J. Castilla
Professor of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E62-332
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-253-0286
E-mail: ecastilla@mit.edu