POSITIONS: PhD position at Stevens Institute in New Jersey

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

From: Peter Koen [peter.koen at stevens.edu]
Date: Thu 26 Jan 2012 14:59

PhD Job Posting in Innovation

Title: PhD Student

School: Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Duties and Responsibilities: This is a research position which provides a monthly stipend, full tuition and summer support. The candidate will be required to provide research assistance, up to 20 hours per week during each of the academic semesters and 40 hours per week during the summer. These activities will be aligned with the research below, but will also involve some administrative activities. 

Research Area: The focus of the research will be in the area of corporate entrepreneurship. We are studying why large firms have difficulty succeeding with business-model innovations. Sony changed the way people listen to music with their Walkman and Discman portable music players and Microsoft made a computer in every home a reality. But these same firms faltered when it came to business-model innovation. Sony failed to develop a successful MP3 player and allowed Apple to take over the market with the iPod and iTunes. Microsoft allowed Google to dominate the search-engine space, failing in multiple attempts to compete in the search market. This research project, funded by Corning, ExxonMobil, Innosight (an Innovation Strategy company founded by Clay Christensen), Johnson and Johnson and P&G and supported by the Industrial Research Institute is exploring through in-depth case qualitative studies as well as quantitative survey data, of why business-model innovation is so difficult. 

Basic Qualifications: Bachelors’ degree and evidence of management research activity. Experience with statistics including data base management, regression and factor analyses including familiarity with popular statistical software packages such as SPSS. Some experience in structural equation modeling would be considered valuable. 

Required Applicant Documents: Official college transcripts from all colleges which include a conferment of a bachelor’s degree, three letters of recommendation and GMAT no older than 5 years. Overall GMAT scores in verbal and quantitative should both be above the 80th percentile. An internet based TOEFL score above 95 is required for all international students. Please also include a statement of why you are interested in getting a PhD at Stevens. Some evidence of prior management research activity would be looked at favorably during the review process. Interested candidates who meet these requirements should apply to our PhD program at www.stevens.edu/sit/graduate 

Additional Information: This is a 12 month appointment beginning on September 1, 2012, renewably yearly upon mutual consent. Full time summer support is also provided beginning on June 1, 2012 which includes a 4 week paid internship at Innosight in Boston.  For additional information please contact Peter A. Koen (peter.koen at stevens.edu), Associate Professor and Director for the Consortium for Corporate Entrepreneurship at Stevens www.frontendinnovation.com.

About Stevens: Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu.