Academic Program Resources

Finance Department

Procedure for Proposal Presentations

1. At least two weeks before the date of your proposal, please send the following information to PhD Program Director, Susan Jackman:

• Scheduled date, time, and location (room number) for your proposal
• Title of proposal or presentation
• List of committee members, noting who your chair is. Details regarding the committee requirements are available online.

David Dranove, Faculty Director of the PhD Program, approves of all committees. Once Susan has his approval, she'll process the paperwork for your proposal and give the forms to your committee chair. To pass the proposal, signatures are required from your proposal committee members. The signature form is returned to Susan Jackman for processing.

2. Please send the names of your proposal committee to Finance Department DGS by June 15th. Please 'cc' the members of your committee on that email, so they are also aware.

3. Please ensure that the members of your committee can attend your presentation on that day.

4. Please forward an electronic copy of your paper to the Academic Events Coordinator.

5. The Academic Events Coordinator, will send an email announcement to the entire department two weeks before the presentation date. This will include the titles of your talk and presentation.

6. The Academic Events Coordinator, will book a room for all proposals. Please coordinate with them and the members of your committee to pick an appropriate time. If the members of your committee cannot be there, please make sure they can participate via Zoom. If one of your committee members cannot participate on the set dates, contact the DGS immediately.

7. The presentation schedule will be posted on the Finance Department’s Proposal Presentation Intranet website.

PLEASE NOTE: Do not circulate materials posted here. They are for internal use by Faculty and Ph.D. students of the Kellogg Finance department only .     Date/Time Name Paper   Fourth-Year Presentations

Procedure for Dissertation Defense

1. The student must receive approval from their dissertation committee to (i) proceed with the dissertation defense; and (ii) the date/time of the dissertation defense.

2. At least two weeks before the date of your defense, please send the following information to PhD Program Director, Susan Jackman:

• · Scheduled date, time, and location (room number) for your defense
• · Title of dissertation
• · List of committee members, noting who your chair is. Details regarding the committee requirements are available online.

David Dranove, Faculty Director of the PhD Program, approves of all committees. Once Susan has his approval, she'll process the paperwork for your defense and give the forms to your committee chair. To pass the defense, signatures are required from your committee members. The signature form is returned to Susan Jackman for processing.

3. After obtaining approval from the dissertation committee, and at least one week before the dissertation defense date, the student must give an electronic copy of the dissertation to the Academic Events Coordinator. They will post the dissertation on the Finance Department’s Dissertation Presentation Intranet website.

4. The Academic Events Coordinator, will book a room for the dissertation defense. Please coordinate with them and the members of your committee to pick an appropriate time well in advance (at least two weeks prior to the desired date).

5. The Academic Events Coordinator will send an email announcement to the entire department one week before the dissertation defense.


Dissertation Presentations

Date/Time Name Paper Date TBA Time TBA Room TBA TBA Title TBA Date TBA Time TBA Room TBA TBA Title TBA Please note: files are for individual reading and not for circulation.