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INTEREST CATEGORY: DOCTORAL STUDENTS
POSTING TYPE: Awards

Posted by: Yui Ishikawa

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MSI’s 2024 Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition
Deadline: July 15, 2024

The Marketing Science Institute is pleased to announce our annual Alden G. Clayton dissertation proposal competition. The annual Alden G. Clayton Dissertation proposal competition recognizes marketing doctoral students who are working on research questions with important marketing, societal, and policy implications. Each year, MSI encourages top-notch Ph.D. students to apply rigorous research methods to questions that have real business relevance. Learn more about the competition and see past winners .

The 2024 Alden G. Clayton dissertation proposal competition is open to qualified doctoral students worldwide. Submissions must be received no later than July 15, 2024 MSI will grant up to five awards, and each winner will receive a cash prize. Honorable mention awards may also be granted. Awards for 2024 will be announced later in the year. All submissions must be submitted through MSI’s online portal .

Please encourage your eligible doctoral students to participate.

Please note a change to our eligibility requirements. Previously students were expected to have completed no more than half of their dissertation prior to submission.  Accounting for different interpretations of dissertation completion, we have changed that eligibility requirement to simply require that the final dissertation not yet be defended.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Students should be candidates for the doctorate in marketing and related fields (e.g. psychology, economics, management, strategy, etc.).
• The AGC program welcomes applications from both US and international students.
• Students should NOT have defended the dissertation (students can have defended a proposal).
• Participation in other grant or award programs does not preclude consideration for this award.

Instructions For Submission:

• For blind reviewing purposes, please remove any identifying information (name, school, etc.) from the proposal and remove any metadata.
• Please follow the instructions for how to include a separate document containing detailed contact information for you and your thesis advisor/chair.
• Proposals should include a brief statement of the problem area to be researched, relevant theory and hypotheses, the methodology and analyses to be employed, and a brief indicative bibliography. Comment also on the managerial relevance of the expected results.
• All files should use the following naming conventions:
• Title page: pdf
• Main manuscript: pdf
• where (i) ‘AGCSubmissionTitle’ refers to the title of the dissertation you are submitting, with spaces (and any unusual symbols and/or periods) replaced with underscores and (ii) LastName is your last (family) name.
• Maximum submission length is 20 double-spaced pages, inclusive of all tables/exhibits and references. The first page should be a brief, self-contained summary of the proposal.
• Include the names and email addresses of a minimum of 5 potential reviewers for your dissertation proposal. Exclude anyone that you are currently working with (your advisor, committee, etc), exclude any faculty from your University, and exclude any relatives or spouses. We are unable to review proposals without suggested reviewers.

Experienced marketing academics will judge submissions on their potential contribution to business and academia, quality of the conceptual development, feasibility, and appropriateness of methodology, and creativity.

If you have any questions regarding the application process, please email research@msi.org. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Best regards,
MSI Team