

Alden G. Clayton 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 grants up to five awards and five honorable mentions, encouraging top-notch Ph.D. students to apply rigorous research methods to questions that have real business relevance.
Proposals must be submitted by October 7, 2022. If you have questions about submitting, please contact [email protected] .
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Hortense Fong (Yale University)
Madhav Kumar (MIT Sloan School of Management)
2020 Winners
Johann Melzner (New York University) Olivia Natan (University of Chicago) Jeremy Yang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2019 Winners
Nicolas Padilla (Columbia University) Omid Rafieian (University of Washington)
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Dafna Goor (Harvard University) Tesary Lin (University of Chicago)
2017 Winners
Robert E. Sanders (University of Chicago) Artem Timoshenko (MIT)
2016 Winners
Zhuping Liu (University of Texas at Austin) Daniel McCarthy (University of Pennsylvania) Navid Mojir, (Yale School of Management)
2015 Winners
Mahdi Ebrahimi (University of Houston) Beth Fossen (Emory University) Max Nohe (Tilburg University)
2014 Winners
Xiao Liu (Carnegie Mellon University) Adelle X. Yang (University of Chicago)
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Jonathan Berman (University of Pennsylvania) Clarence Lee (Harvard Business School) Hongshuang (Alice) Li (University of Maryland) Adithya Pattabhiramaiah (University of Michigan)
2012 Winners
Jayson S. Jia (Stanford University)
2011 Winners
Cristina Nistor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2010 Winners
Kelly B. Herd (University of Colorado, Boulder)
2009 Winners
Jeffrey Meyer (Texas A&M University) Dante Pirouz (University of California, Irvine)
2008 Winners
Sumon Datta (Yale University) Andrew T. Stephen (Columbia University) Botao Yang (University of Toronto) Hema Yoganarasimhan (Yale University)
2007 Winners
Zsolt Katona (INSEAD)
2006 Winners
Brett R. Gordon (Carnegie Mellon University) Michael Trusov (UCLA)
2005 Winners
Xiaojing Dong (Northwestern University) Benjamin Kartono (Cornell University)
2004 Winners
Sarit Moldovan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Sangyoung Song (University of Pennsylvania) Debora Viana Thompson (University of Maryland)
2003 Winners
Simona Botti (University of Chicago) Rex Du (Duke University)
2002 Winners
Sangkil Moon (University of Iowa) Kristin Rotte (University of Cincinnati)
2001 Winners
Rajkumar Venkatesan (University of Houston)
2000 Winners
Pankaj Aggarwal (University of Chicago) Julien Cayla (University of Colorado) Jaihak Chung (Cornell University) Detlev Zwick (University of Rhode Island)
1999 Winners
Michael Lewis (Northwestern University) Wendy Moe (University of Pennsylvania)
1998 Winners
Kalyani Menon (McGill University) Erica M. Okada (University of Pennsylvania)
1997 Winners
Chris White (Texas A&M University)
1996 Winners
George S. Babbes (University of California, Berkeley) Nancy Buchan (University of Pennsylvania)
1995 Winners
Rajesh K. Chandy (University of Southern California) Sean A. Meehan (London Business School) Miklos Sarvary (INSEAD) Jorge M. Silva-Risso (University of California, Los Angeles) Ronald T. Wilcox (Washington University)
1994 Winners
David R. Bell (Stanford University) John T. Gourville (University of Chicago) Yong-Soon Kang (University of Colorado at Boulder) Satya Menon (University of Pennsylvania) Vonda Powell (University of Illinois)
1993 Winners
Nadine M. Castellano (University of Iowa) Jennifer Gregan-Paxton (University of Minnesota) Sandy Jap (University of Florida) John Matthews (Harvard University)
1992 Winners
Jonathan D. Hibbard (Northwestern University) John W. Mullins (University of Minnesota) Duncan Simester (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Gordon S. Swartz (Harvard University)
1991 Winners
Alexandra Campbell (University of Toronto)
Rosemary Kalapurakal (Ohio State University)
Vicki Morwitz (University of Pennsylvania) Mehmet Pasa
(University of Chicago) John Walsh
(Cornell University)
1990 Winners
João Assunção (University of California, Los Angeles) Irene Raj Foster (Indiana University) J. Jeffrey Inman (University of Texas at Austin) John J. Sailors (Northwestern University)
1989 Winners
Pradeep K. Chintagunta (Northwestern University) Donna Green (University of Western Ontario) Nirmalya Kumar Northwestern University) Jakki Mohr (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Brian Wansink (Stanford University)
1988 Winners
Helen H. Anderson (Duke University) Marcia K. Armstrong (University of Texas, Dallas) Laura Peracchio (Northwestern University) Emine Sarigollu (University of Pennsylvania)
1987 Winners
Randolph E. Bucklin (Stanford University) Cornelia A.R. Pechmann (Vanderbilt University)
1986 Winners
Eduardo G. Camargo (Northwestern University) Howard Marmorstein (University of Florida) Allen Weiss (University of Wisconsin) Lauren K. Wright (The Pennsylvania State University)
1985 Winners
Sunil Gupta (Columbia University) Durairaj Maheswaran (Northwestern University) S. Ram (University of Illinois)
1984 Winners
Wendy Bryce (University of Washington) Kevin Lane Keller (Duke University)
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Alden G. Clayton Doctoral 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 grants up to five awards and five honorable mentions, encouraging top-notch Ph.D. students to apply rigorous research methods to questions that have real business relevance.
Pre-proposals must be submitted by September 30, 2022.
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Eligibility requirements.
- Students should be candidates for the doctorate in marketing and related fields (e.g. psychology, economics, management, strategy, etc.).
- The dissertation work must be less than 50% completed at the time of submission. The thesis advisor/chair must submit a letter approving the submission and certifying that the dissertation was no more than 50% completed at the time of submission.
- Participation in other grant or award programs does not preclude consideration for this award.
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MSI Clayton Dissertation Competition
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Marketing Science Institute Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Competition; Deadline 15 Oct 2021
INTEREST CATEGORY : DOCTORAL STUDENTS POSTING TYPE : Awards
Author : Barbara Kahn
MSI’s 2021 Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition
Deadline: October 15, 2021
The Marketing Science Institute is pleased to announce our annual Alden G. Clayton dissertation proposal competition. The competition is open to qualified doctoral students worldwide. Submissions must be received no later than October 15, 2021 . MSI will grant up to five awards, and each winner will receive a cash prize. Honorable mention awards may also be granted. Awards for 2021 will be announced in early 2022. All submissions must be submitted through MSI’s online portal here .
Please encourage your eligible doctoral students to participate.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Students should be candidates for the doctorate in marketing and related fields (e.g. psychology, economics, management, strategy, etc.).
- The dissertation work must be less than 50% completed at the time of submission. The thesis advisor/chair must submit a letter approving the submission and certifying that the dissertation was no more than 50% completed at the time of submission here .
- 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.
- Title page: LastName_AGCSubmissionTitle.pdf
- Main manuscript: AGCSubmissionTitle.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.
Please encourage your students to submit to MSI’s online portal here .
Best regards, Barbara Kahn, MSI Executive Director Sherry Pincus, Research Program Director
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PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation
Xiao liu's dissertation work that was supported by the pnc center wins multiple prestigious awards.
Xiao Liu's dissertation work that studies overdraft fees in banking and suggests innovative pricing and product design strategies with big data won several prestigious awards including: Winner, MSI Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition 2014, Winner, ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition 2014, Winner, William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management Science 2015. Xiao Liu was a Ph.D. student at the Tepper School of Business and is now an assistant professor at New York University.
Xiao Liu's dissertation, "Overhaul Overdraft Fees: Creating Pricing and Product Design Strategies with Big Data," was supported by the PNC Center.
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MSI Doctoral Dissertation Competition
Msi’s alden g. clayton doctoral dissertation competition.
Deadline: August 20, 2018
The Marketing Science Institute is pleased to announce our annual Alden G. Clayton dissertation proposal competition. The competition is open to qualified doctoral students worldwide. Submissions must be received no later than August 20, 2018 . MSI will grant up to five awards, and each winner will receive an unrestricted cash prize of $5,000. Honorable mention awards may also be granted. Awards for 2018 will be announced in early 2019. All submissions must be submitted through MSI’s online portal here .
Please encourage your eligible doctoral students to participate.
- Students should be candidates for the doctorate in marketing and related fields (e.g. psychology, economics, management, strategy, etc.).
- The dissertation work must be less than 50% completed at the time of submission. The thesis advisor/chair must submit a letter approving the submission and certifying that the dissertation was no more than 50% completed at the time of submission at here .
- Participation in other grant or award programs does not preclude consideration for this award.
- 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.
- Title page : LastName_AGCSubmissionTitle.pdf
- Main manuscript : AGCSubmissionTitle.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.
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.
Please encourage your students to submit to MSI’s online portal here .
Best regards, Carl Mela, MSI Executive Director

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