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On crafting an early career publication strategy that helps you tenure & stay mobile.
Last week, I posted about how & why I changed my publication strategy. A few people asked me what would I advise a rookie? Should they...
On taking some time for you.
An essential element of surviving #academiclife is knowing when to take a day off - be it in the States or further away - take a day off...
On picking, then pivoting, where you publish.
When I was a young scholar, I constructed a journal list - so I could focus. I looked at my academic hero’s CVs- Zmud, Sambamurthy, &...
Lessons learned from global collaboration.
As a young faculty member, I envied faculty from Asia, Europe, & further afield. They had high social status & throngs of Ph.D. students...
On being a TUM Global Scholar
My appointment as a TUM Global Scholar has ended. My eighteen months of sharing with and learning from the students and faculty at the...
On my father, scholarship, & academic role models.
Rather than my weekly post about academic life, I thought I would take a moment to comment on my father as a scholar & role model. Today,...
On asserting control over your pre-tenure academic life.
A request to write a tenure evaluation this past week brought back a flood of memories - some good, some not so good from my time...
#SocialMedia tips for young academics.
Ten years ago, I started posting about my away from work-life on social media - to an audience comprised largely of faculty at other...
On addressing sexism in academe.
Sexism is alive and well in academe. A colleague recently expressed – for the “purpose of discussion” - skepticism that work-family...
On Ph.D. Students managing Professors.
I'm often puzzled when otherwise very intelligent students or professors, complain about their working relationships. Students claim...
On anti-Desi racism in my academic community.
The first time that I heard anti-Desi sentiment in my community, I was a PhD student. A white person said to me, “the Indians are a gang,...
Proactive steps to preserve your academic reputation in an era of accountability and data-driven res
You may have heard of James E. Hunton. A once-famous accounting scholar, evidence suggests that his work was based on fabricated data. To...
On integrity in Scholarly Life … and building a better Academy.
Recently, a senior faculty member emoted that if you have a strong research record, nothing else mattered, because teaching didn’t help...
On Becoming Better Mentors to Ph.D. Students
"The Chair" on Netflix triggered me this week - watching the hapless Ph.D. student, marginalized by a self-absorbed advisor, subject to...
On the perils of counting papers & research rankings to scholarly life.
On the perils of research productivity papers and rankings. A student recently asked me: "what I thought was the most damaging paper to...
10,000 organically grown citations.
10,000 citations to my published work (according to GoogleScholar). A testament to my co-authors and students who have kept the ideas...
On joining Fox MIS @ Temple University.
In a year, when my professional life fell apart and had to be put back together, I managed to join the #1 research group in the world and...
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