Behavioral

I'm having a hard time figuring out what you're trying to ask.

I just finished an assignment not too long ago, and am taking an email/forum break before starting on a presentation I have to give tomorrow afternoon. I should also start working on readings for this week and two writing assignments, but that's for after my presentation anyway \o/

Evanston east of Ridge, south of Central, and north of Davis is pretty much walkable to campus. Prices shoot up for living near "downtown" Evanston (i.e., everything near the Davis St. CTA station). There are six main CTA stops that a lot of students live in (all purple line): Main, Dempster, Davis, Foster, Noyes, and Central (Davis, Foster, and Noyes being the most dense). Living off Evanston Loop NU shuttle, the CTA 201/201N bus, or similar isn't a bad idea if you might be opposed to walking or if you live a little further away.

There are plenty of 2BR apartments near the CTA for less than $1600/month; $1200-$1300 is pretty common for decent apartment buildings, too. A lot of these apartments aren't the most Internet-friendly, so it's hard to shop around from out-of-town. It'd be best if you come before summer for a weekend and visit all these locations and sign a lease then and there.

Yes, sir!

I'm going to guess my advisor's name being on the author list had a big influence during my undergrad (one of the most well-published, and former president of both of our national societies), but I was 6/6 for applications/acceptances. I have yet to submit anything during graduate school since my research is a HUGE departure from what I did back then.

This might come off as rude, but I'd consider going to an MBA program outside the typical Top 25 (except some programs with niches, like Thunderbird's International Business program, etc.) a waste of time and money. MBAs aren't so much about what you'll learn (the AACSB keep curricula more or less the same between accredited schools), but rather the networking and socialization you get at your program. MBAs going to Harvard, Stanford, etc. aren't necessarily getting the best jobs because they're getting a superior education -- it's because the top recruiters primarily recruit only at top schools; if you check the % salary increase pre-/post-MBA charts on websites like Financial Times, you'll see that the fall-off in return-on-investment is dramatic once you go to regional schools. It's a different matter if you go get your MBA on your employer's dime, but even then, the opportunity/option cost of doing that may make it not worth it; i.e., your job offers you free tuition to a regional school and you're actually a candidate who could have gotten into a top b-school; attending and getting your MBA closes a lot of doors since many b-schools will not take in applicants with prior MBAs.

I can go on forever about what behavioral marketing is, but it's basically a field in marketing that focuses on psychological processes in consumer behavior. A major subfield within behavioral marketing is behavioral decision theory (BDT), which a summary of can be found here: http://www.columbia.edu/~rk566/research/The%20Synthesis%20of%20Preference.pdf BDT is very much the cross-section of classical microeconomics and psychology, which practically arose from the Kahneman and Tversky papers on Prospect Theory and was propagated form there. Contemporary researchers on the subject come from Economics (George Loewenstein), Psychology (Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, etc.), and Marketing (Dan Ariely, Ravi Dhar, etc.)--and many other disciplines as well. Much of what goes on in the discipline is seeing how robust the biases and errors humans make in choice tasks, how they differ from microeconomic predictions, and what are the causes/moderators of such biases/errors. Anyway, I'm doing research on judgment and decision making, goals and motivation, behavioral decision theory, and (just recently) neuromarketing (neuroscience of consumer behavior / influence). If you're actually at Florida, you have one of the best behavioral marketing faculties focusing on behavioral decision theory at your business school. Here's a paper by Joe Alba (senior faculty at Warrington) on the theoretical aspect of "unused utility", a popular paper by Chris Janiszewski on pricing's effect on consumer preference, and a fairly recent review paper on 'rationality' and its implications on behavioral decision theory by Robyn Leboeuf. You really should just drop them a visit and ask them about their research. There are also more quantitative/econometric modelers in marketing in case that's your interest. They tend to focus on marketing variables (pricing, R&D, ROI, order of entry, customer satisfaction, etc.) at the firm, brand, and/or product levels.

It's usually a safe bet for girls to just wear a casual dress with a sweater/jacket for dinner. Guys usually wore slacks or jeans with a button-down, no tie/dinner jacket.

Everything ported onto both Mendeley and EndNote for easy archiving/keyword searching. File structure in my computer/Dropbox is simply "Courses/[Quarter Year]/[Name of Class]/[Meeting Number/Date]/" and usually that's enough stratification to have manageable files. Physically, I have one of these document organizers where I place "to-be-read" papers (each compartment corresponds to a different course or project [or ideas for future projects within a certain domain]); I also have one of these magazine files where I place my "have read" files that I still need to keep handy (i.e., ongoing projects, courses where I have assignments, etc.); lastly, I just find 3-ring binders for papers that I don't think I'll be using too frequent (papers from previous courses, etc.). It's a little exhaustive of a system, but it works great for me. I'm only a first year, and a lot of the professors say they wish they were as organized as this when they started grad school. It really makes finding papers an ease (between my online and physical file structures).

A lot of Chicagoans also use delivery services (like peapod) if they don't live conveniently near a supermarket or if it's (in a typical winter) too cold to go out.

This is actually one of the better suggestions here. I've read dissertations as reviews of bodies of literature, but I haven't used that strategy since early undergrad.

I try not to use it as much as I can -- my best ideas usually come when I'm somewhere public, and talking to my phone while looking extremely pensive doesn't give the best impressions.

I usually write a note on my phone if I'm away from my computer. If it's a little more well-developed, I record a voice message and transcribe it later.

It's strict for Marketing (in no particular order): Journal of Marketing (JM), Journal of Consumer Research (JCR), Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Marketing Science (MS) If you're doing quant/modeling: American Economic Review (AER) and Econometrica are the two A-level journals. If you're doing behavioral/psychology: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP), Psychological Science (PsychSci) are considered the two fairly agreed-upon A-level journals

I normally rock well-groomed facial hair, but went shaven for my interviews. It's just plain cleaner, in my opinion.

I only know of the below average treatment of the Econ PhD students / lack of interaction with faculty.

Anywhere that's convenient to the Blue Line (or walking distance if you can afford living in West Loop). The apartments you're finding for that cheap are usually either too far to walk to a CTA and/or in a 'bad' neighborhood. It seems like anywhere in the North side served by the Red or Brown line is pretty expensive and the areas in between those two trains are far less expensive.

ASAP except for emails I receive after 10pm. I'm usually up and sometimes next to a computer until 1 or 2am everyday, but I don't want to give the impression to professors that I am up at that time so that I don't give them the expectations that I can be bothered at that time on a regular basis. Some of my colleagues at a different school answer emails into the late hours of the night because their professors have developed that as an expectation if they have unresolved questions lingering. I'd rather not be in that situation.

With all clothes, but especially suits/business-wear, the cut makes the look. Make sure you get your pants hemmed, your jacket/coat arms adjusted, and your shirts tapered. An expensive suit can look cheap when everything's the wrong size, and conversely a cheap suit can be elevated when it's sized perfectly.

Write anything now. Edit later. I tend to write a lot after drinking some scotch.

Bachelors: B.A. in Joint Math/Econ and B.S. in Psychology Formal Math Training: Calculus 1/2/3, Linear Algebra, ODE, PDE, Real Analysis, Probability/Stochastic Theory, Topology Informal Math Training: None? Current Grad School Status: Second quarter in a behavioral marketing PhD program -- pretty smug about my decision not to go into Economics (which I had been planning on for most of my undergraduate career!).

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Nope. Don't ever make that assumption until you get that in writing.

University, department, and (if necessary) advisor's funds. I only paid for 2 out of my 6 presentations so far out of pocket. I also got lucky on two of my presentations because I presented a poster at a pre-conference (sub-society of a larger more general society) and the parent conference with only a small marginal cost.