LBS Quant MKT PhD 25fall 面经

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申请季发面经来攒RP！

First Round notification: Dec 6

First Round interview: Dec 10

Interviewer: One professor I mentioned in SoP, another professor is co-ordinator

Introduce yourself

tell me about the research project you’ve done in predoc

• I chose a project that is related to quant mkt. It is an econ paper, with a focus on theory contribution. So I start with the theory contribution. But the interviewer didn’t really get the point of theory contribution, keep asking “What is the research question”
• I give an example to illustrate the model. Then she gets the point.

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Why marketing? Your research interest is empirical IO, you could do empirical IO in econ.

Why London Business School

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我是从Econ转去quant mkt的。和我类似情况的小伙伴，需要注意

1. 有一个convincing 的Econ转quant mkt的理由
2. 如果做的project比较偏theory，在讲的时候要注重具体应用，多举例子

Tripleg

A Ph.D. in economics from a top 30-40 school in North America promises far more career avenues than does a Ph.D. in Marketing. As I understand it, Marketing is a niche area of empirical IO. Of course, anone with a Ph.D. in either of these is about sure ticket to a research-based position in academia or industry.

zzmypster

Tripleg 发表于 2024-12-19 07:13
[md]A Ph.D. in economics from a top 30-40 school in North America promises far more career avenues t ...

This is quite misinformed and misleading. LBS MKT regularly placed students at places like UCL and Bocconi. All of the top 30 econ PhD programs are not even close.

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zzmypster 发表于 2024-12-19 23:10
This is quite misinformed and misleading. LBS MKT regularly placed students at places like UCL and ...

Agreed! The placement of Econ PhD and predoc become much worse after covid for unknown reason.
Here is the placement of LBS PhD: https://assets.london.edu/hxo16fanegqh/5JqRfG9ZRnOWpygoPwGo85/9f21c3cf4d4b244afee851e5caeecc58/web-placement-list-2012---2023.pdf
Here is the placement of Boston Univ Econ PhD (I would say top 20-30 level?): https://www.bu.edu/econ/academics/phd/recent-phd-placements/
Here is the placement of USC Econ PhD (top 30-40?): https://dornsife.usc.edu/econ/doctoral/placements/

The median placement of LBS PhD, whatever track, is much better than BU Econ PhD and USC Econ PhD.

Tripleg

Okay. I do not think I was providing misinformation, though. As for me, a research-based Economist position at a non-academic institution or corporation (e.g., Federal Reserve Bank and Microsoft) is as good as (or even better than) a faculty position at a research school. Yes, BU and USC Econ departments rank among the top 50.

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我也被追问了research questions，当时还以为是我没讲清楚

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Tripleg 发表于 2024-12-21 00:49
[md]Okay. I do not think I was providing misinformation, though. As for me, a research-based Economi ...

"BU and USC Econ departments rank among the top 50"???

What ranking system are you even using???

Also when a young scholar applies for top PhD business programs, I believe it is safe to assume they want to stay in academia as a goal after graduation instead of targeting industry. Otherwise, they could easily get a CS degree and earn way more money than Econ in industry.