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The Academic Life⚓︎

Advice & Tips⚓︎

  • Richard Hamming, "You and Your Research", 1986. source archive
  • Peters, Robert L. Getting what you came for: the smart student's guide to earning a master's or a Ph. D. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. source
  • Booth, W. C., Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., Colomb, G. G., Williams, J. M., & Williams, J. M. (2003). "The craft of research". University of Chicago press. source
  • Fei-Fei Li, "De-Mystifying Good Research and Good Papers", 2009. source archive
  • Feibelman, Peter J. "A PhD is not enough!: A guide to survival in science". Basic Books, 2011.
  • Phillips, Estelle, and Derek Pugh. "How to Get a PhD: A Handbook for Students and their Supervisors". McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2015.
  • Andrej Karpathy, "A Survival Guide to a PhD", 2016. source archive
  • Volkan Cirik, "PhD 101", 2019. source archive
  • Sam Altman, "How To Be Successful", 2019. source archive
  • Sebastian Ruder, "10 Tips for Research and a PhD", 2020. source archive
  • Isabelle Augenstein, "Increasing Well-Being in Academia", 2020. source archive
  • Li, Longxing. "The A-Z of the PhD Trajectory: A Practical Guide for a Successful Journey." International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 32.3 (2020): 536-538. source
  • Banafsheh Behzad and Xiaonan (Shannon) Shang, "Transitioning from Student to Professional" INFORMS Speakers Program, 2022. video

Academic Writings⚓︎

  • Cochrane, John H. "Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students." Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 2005. pdf Chinese Version
  • Zinsser, William. "On writing well: The classic guide to writing nonfiction." New York, NY (2006). source
  • Clark, R. P. (2008). "Writing tools: 55 essential strategies for every writer". Little, Brown Spark. source
  • McCarthy, Michael, and Felicity O'dell. Academic vocabulary in use. Ernst Klett Sprachen, 2008.
  • Sword, H. (2012)."Stylish academic writing". Harvard University Press. source
  • Brittman, Felicia. "The Most Common Habits from more than 200 English Papers written by Graduate Chinese Engineering Students." (2011). pdf
  • Swales, J.M. et al. "Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills". University of Michigan Press, 2012. source
  • Clark, Roy Peter. How to write short: Word craft for fast times. Little, Brown Spark, 2013. source
  • Bailey, Stephen. Academic writing: A handbook for international students. Routledge, 2014. source
  • Morley, John. "Academic phrasebank." Manchester: University of Manchester (2014). source
  • Wallwork, A. (2016). "English for writing research papers". Springer. source
  • Card, Stuart K. "The PhD Thesis Deconstructed." IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 36.04 (2016): 92-101. source
  • Silvia, Paul J. How to write a lot: A practical guide to productive academic writing. American Psychological Association, 2018. source
  • INFOGRAPHIC: The secret to using tenses in scientific writing source
  • Using tenses in scientific writing: Tense considerations for science writing pdf
  • Struijk, Mylène, et al. "Putting the IS back into IS research." Information Systems Journal (2021). source

Review Writings⚓︎

  • Elisabeth PainSep. 22, 2. (2016, September 22). "How to review a paper". Retrieved August 31, 2020. source archive
  • Rai, A. (2016). Editor's comments: writing a virtuous review. MIS Quarterly, 40(3), iii-x. pdf
  • Wiley. "How to perform a peer review". Retrieved August 31, 2020. source
  • Indiana University East. (2017). "How to Write a Review of a Scholarly Article". Retrieved August 31, 2020. source
  • Adams, J. (2020, August 6). "How to Write an Article Review". source
  • Ahmed, B. S. (2018, February 26). "Tips and advice when you review a scientific paper". Elsevier. source
  • MIS Quarterly. (2020). "Reviewing for MIS Quarterly: Virtuous Reviewing at MIS Quarterly". source.

Response to Reviews⚓︎

  • Pang, Min-Seok and Thatcher, Jason B. (2023) "A Practical Guide for Successful Revisions and Engagements with Reviewers," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 24(2), 317-327. source

Academic Presentations⚓︎

  • Reinhart, Susan M. Giving academic presentations. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002. source
  • Chivers, Barbara, and Michael Shoolbred. A Student′ s Guide to Presentations: Making your Presentation Count. Sage, 2007. source
  • Graham Burton. Presenting: Deliver Academic Presentations with Confidence HarperCollins UK, 2014.
  • Rendle-Short, Johanna. The academic presentation: Situated talk in action. Routledge, 2016.
  • Nycyk, Michael. "Academic and scientific poster presentation: a modern comprehensive guide." (2018): 1550-1552.
  • Guest, Michael. Conferencing and Presentation English for Young Academic. Springer, 2018. source

Academic Career⚓︎

  • Showalter, English. The MLA guide to the job search: A handbook for departments and for PhDs and PhD candidates in English and foreign languages. Modern Language Assoc. of America, 1996.
  • Goldsmith, John A., John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold. The Chicago guide to your academic career: A portable mentor for scholars from graduate school through tenure. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
  • Kelsky, Karen. The professor is in: The essential guide to turning your Ph. D. into a job. Crown, 2015. homepage
  • Vick, Julia Miller, Jennifer S. Furlong, and Rosanne Lurie. "The academic job search handbook." The Academic Job Search Handbook. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
  • Boice, Robert. Advice for new faculty members. Vol. 75. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.
  • Firth, David, Matt Germonprez, and Jason Thatcher. "Managing your PhD student career: How to prepare for the job market." Communications of the Association for Information Systems 34.1 (2014): 5. source
  • Liu, Yihong. "Notes for Ph.D. Job Interview Experiences 02–21-2020." Yihong Liu’s Blog, 26 May 2020, source.
  • Baquero, Carlos. "Publishing, The Choice and The Luck." blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM, Communications of the ACM, 22 Nov. 2021, source archive.
  • Baquero, Carlos. "Picking Publication Targets." March 2022 | Communications of the ACM, Communications of the ACM, 1 Mar. 2022, source archive.
  • Association for Information Systems (AIS) Career Services
  • INFORMS Career Center
  • Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Placement List
  • Interdisciplinoxy.com
  • Akadeus.com

Teaching⚓︎

  • Bain, Ken. What the best college teachers do. Harvard University Press, 2004. source
  • Filene, Peter. The joy of teaching: A practical guide for new college instructors. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2009. source
  • Seldin, Peter, J. Elizabeth Miller, and Clement A. Seldin. The teaching portfolio: A practical guide to improved performance and promotion/tenure decisions. John Wiley & Sons, 2010. source
  • Colby, Anne, et al. Rethinking undergraduate business education: Liberal learning for the profession. John Wiley & Sons, 2011. source
  • Bowen, José Antonio. Teaching naked: How moving technology out of your college classroom will improve student learning. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
  • Angelo, Thomas A., and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. Jossey Bass Wiley, 2012. source
  • Lang, James M. Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty. Harvard University Press, 2013. source
  • Doyle, Elaine, Patrick Buckley, and Conor Carroll, eds. Innovative business school teaching: Engaging the millennial generation. Routledge, 2014. source
  • David Gooblar, "They Haven’t Done the Reading. Again.", 2014. archive
  • Carey, Benedict. How we learn: The surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2015.
  • Nilson, Linda B. Specifications grading: Restoring rigor, motivating students, and saving faculty time. Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2015. source
  • Henderson, Linda J. "Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education." (2016): 56-60. source
  • Nilson, Linda B. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. John Wiley & Sons, 2016. source
  • Howard, Jay. "Class Discussion: From Blank Stares to True Engagement.", 2019. source archive
  • Gilmore, Joanna, and Molly Hatcher, eds. Preparing for College and University Teaching: Competencies for Graduate and Professional Students. Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2021. source
  • Müller, S. D. (2022). Student Research as Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 50, pp-pp. source
  • Zheng, Lily. DEI Deconstructed: Your No-nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing it Right. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022. source
  • Daniel T. Willingham. Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy. Gallery Books, 2023. source
  • Regan A. R. Gurung and John Dunlosky. Study Like a Champ: The Psychology-Based Guide to “Grade A” Study Habits. APA LifeTools, 2023. source
  • Barbeau, Lauren, and Claudia Cornejo Happel. "Critical Teaching Behaviors: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching." (2023). source
  • The website "Solve a Teaching Problem" by Eberly Center, Carnegie Mellon University provides practical strategies to address teaching problems across the disciplines.
  • Journal of Management Education
  • Management Teaching Review
  • Journal of Teaching in International Business
  • Journal of Education for Business

AI & Education⚓︎

This list comes from the Center of Teaching and Learning at the University of Texas at Dallas along with other sources.

  • Julia Staffel, ChatGPT and Its Impact on Teaching Philosophy and Other Subjects video
  • Cynthia Alby, Chatgpt: Understanding the New Landscape and Short-Term Solutions Google Docs
  • Lee Skallerup Bessette's Zotero Library on ChatGPT source
  • Teachers On Fire, Should Schools BAN ChatGPT? 4 Reasons Not To! video
  • Eric Prochaska, Embrace the Bot: Designing Writing Assignments in the Face of AI source
  • Alexandra Mihai, Let's get off the fear carousel! source
  • Art Brownlow, AI Essay Writing: Dawn in the Garden of Good and Evil video
  • Kritik Education, 12 Ways Instructors Can Use OpenAI to Transform Assessments source
  • Derek Bruff, A Bigger, Badder Clippy: Enhancing Student Learning with AI Writing Tools source
  • @herfteducator, A Teacher’s Prompt Guide to ChatGPT Aligned With 'What Works Best' pdf
  • Center for Teaching & Assessment of Learning @ University of Delaware, Considerations for Using and Addressing Advanced Automated Tools in Coursework and Assignments website
  • Gabby Jones / Bloomberg, ChatGPT Is a Wake-up Call to Revamp How We Teach Writing website
  • Joshua Wilson, Writing Without Thinking? There’s a Place for ChatGPT — If Used Properly website
  • turnitin.com, AI-generated text: What educators are saying source
  • turnitin.com, AI-generated text: An annotated hotlist for educators source
  • turnitin.com, Guide for approaching AI-generated text in your classroom source
  • SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY, Generative AI & ChatGPT: Resources for Instructors source
  • UCLA, ChatGPT and AI Resources source
  • Lance Eaton, Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools source

Ethics⚓︎

  • Davison, Robert M., Maris G. Martinsons, and Louie HM Wong. "The ethics of action research participation." Information Systems Journal (2021). source
  • Umphress, Elizabeth E., et al. "From the Editors: Insights on how we try to show empathy, respect, and inclusion in AMJ." Academy of Management Journal (2022). source

Dress Code⚓︎

  • Lee, Christopher. "Dressing the Professor: What to Wear for Working in Academia." Gentleman's Gazette, 8 Nov. 2018. source archive
  • Block, Marta Segal. "What to Wear on Campus." HigherEdJobs, 18 Apr. 2017. source archive
  • martinkich. "Student and Faculty Dress Codes." ACADEME BLOG, 5 Feb. 2015. source archive
  • Smart, Michael. "How a Professor Should Dress: Tips for Lecturers, Tas & Teachers." LearnPar, 21 May 202. source archive
  • Lightstone, Karen, Rob Francis, and Lucie Kocum. "University faculty style of dress and students' perception of instructor credibility." International Journal of Business and Social Science 2.15 (2011). source
  • 40+Style. "What to Wear to a Conference or Presentation to Be Stylish and Professional." 40+ Style, 3 Aug. 2020. source
  • Crestline. "What to Wear to a Conference: The Ultimate Guide." Crestline, 28 Feb. 2022. source
  • Monus, Elle. "3 Ways to Dress for a Conference." WikiHow, WikiHow, 10 Oct. 2021. source

Statistics and Probability⚓︎

  • Casella, George, and Roger L. Berger. Statistical inference. Vol. 2. Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury, 2002. source

Optimization⚓︎

  • Boyd, Stephen, Stephen P. Boyd, and Lieven Vandenberghe. Convex optimization. Cambridge university press, 2004. pdf
  • Sundaram, Rangarajan K. A first course in optimization theory. Cambridge university press, 1996.

Combinatorial Optimization⚓︎

  • Burer, S., & Letchford, A. N. (2012). Non-convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming: A survey. Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science, 17(2), 97-106.
  • Cooper, M. W. (1981). A survey of methods for pure nonlinear integer programming. Management Science, 27(3), 353-361.
  • Hemmecke, R., Köppe, M., Lee, J., & Weismantel, R. (2010). Nonlinear integer programming (pp. 561-618). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  • Korte, B. H., Vygen, J., Korte, B., & Vygen, J. (2011). Combinatorial optimization (Vol. 1). Berlin: Springer.
  • Li, D., & Sun, X. (2006). Nonlinear integer programming (Vol. 84). New York: Springer.
  • Hansen, P. (1979). Methods of nonlinear 0-1 programming. In Annals of Discrete Mathematics (Vol. 5, pp. 53-70). Elsevier.

Bayesian Optimization⚓︎

  • Brochu, Eric, Vlad M. Cora, and Nando De Freitas. "A tutorial on Bayesian optimization of expensive cost functions, with application to active user modeling and hierarchical reinforcement learning." arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.2599 (2010). source
  • Shahriari, Bobak, et al. "Taking the human out of the loop: A review of Bayesian optimization." Proceedings of the IEEE 104.1 (2015): 148-175. source
  • Frazier, Peter I. "Bayesian optimization." Recent advances in optimization and modeling of contemporary problems. Informs, 2018. 255-278. source

Microeconomic⚓︎

  • Varian, Hal R. Microeconomic analysis. WW Norton, 1992.
  • Rubinstein, Ariel. Lecture notes in microeconomic theory: the economic agent. Princeton University Press, 2012. pdf

Econometrics⚓︎

  • Greene, William H. Econometric analysis (Eight Edition). (2017).
  • Cameron, A. Colin, and Pravin K. Trivedi. Microeconometrics: methods and applications. Cambridge university press, 2005.
  • Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data. MIT press, 2010.
  • Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. Introductory econometrics: A modern approach. Nelson Education, 2016.
  • Hill, R. Carter, William E. Griffiths, and Guay C. Lim. Principles of econometrics. John Wiley & Sons, 2018.
  • Davidson, Russell, and James G. MacKinnon. Econometric theory and methods. Vol. 5. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Maddala, Gangadharrao S. Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics. No. 3. Cambridge university press, 1986.
  • Angrist, Joshua D., and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist's companion. Princeton university press, 2008.
  • Baltagi, Badi Hani. "Econometric analysis of panel data". Springer International Publishing, (6th Edition, 2021). source
  • This Wikipedia page compares technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.

Causal Inference⚓︎

  • Pearl, Judea. "Causal inference in statistics: An overview." Statistics surveys 3 (2009): 96-146. pdf
  • Pearl, Judea. Causality. Cambridge university press, 2009. author's website
  • Hernán, Miguel A., and James M. Robins. "Causal inference." (2010): 2. source
  • Glymour, Madelyn, Judea Pearl, and Nicholas P. Jewell. Causal inference in statistics: A primer. John Wiley & Sons, 2016. author's website
  • Peters, Jonas, Dominik Janzing, and Bernhard Schölkopf. Elements of causal inference: foundations and learning algorithms. The MIT Press, 2017. source
  • Pearl, Judea, and Dana Mackenzie. The book of why: the new science of cause and effect. Basic books, 2018. author's website
  • Yao, Liuyi, et al. "A survey on causal inference." arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02770 (2020). source
  • Cunningham, Scott. "Causal inference." Causal Inference. Yale University Press, 2021. author's website
  • Matheus Facure's handbook Causal Inference for The Brave and True github repository
  • Brady Neal's blog provides a good list of books
  • Brady Neal's blog also provides a good course "Introduction to Causal Inference"

Game Theory⚓︎

  • Gibbons, Robert S. Game theory for applied economists. Princeton University Press, 1992.
  • Fudenberg, Drew, and Jean Tirole. Game theory. MIT press, 1991.
  • Myerson, Roger B. Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict. Harvard university press, 2013.
  • Osborne, Martin J., and Ariel Rubinstein. A course in game theory. MIT press, 1994.

Industry Organization⚓︎

  • Tirole, Jean. The theory of industrial organization. MIT press, 1988.
  • Vives, Xavier. Oligopoly pricing: old ideas and new tools. MIT press, 1999.
  • Martin, Stephen. Advanced industrial economics. Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
  • Belleflamme, Paul, and Martin Peitz. Industrial organization: markets and strategies. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Artificial Intelligence⚓︎

  • Shmueli, Galit. "To explain or to predict?." Statistical science 25.3 (2010): 289-310. source
  • Shmueli, Galit, and Otto R. Koppius. "Predictive analytics in information systems research." MIS quarterly (2011): 553-572. source

Machine Learning⚓︎

  • Hastie, Trevor, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman. The elements of statistical learning: data mining, inference, and prediction. Springer Science & Business Media, 2009. source
  • Bishop, Christopher M. Pattern recognition and machine learning. springer, 2006. pdf
  • Barber, David. Bayesian reasoning and machine learning. Cambridge University Press, 2012. source
  • Murphy, Kevin P. Machine learning: a probabilistic perspective. MIT press, 2012.
  • Goodfellow, Ian, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville. "Deep learning." Cambridge: MIT press, 2016. source
  • Sergey Levine provides a course CS W182 / 282A - UC Berkeley at Designing, Visualizing and Understanding Deep Neural Networks
  • Murphy, Kevin P. Probabilistic machine learning: an introduction. MIT press, 2022. website
  • Murphy, Kevin P. Probabilistic machine learning: Advanced Topics. MIT press, 2023. website
  • Berente, Nicholas, et al. "Managing artificial intelligence." MIS Quarterly 45.3 (2021): 1433-1450. source
  • Balaji Padmanabhan, Xiao Fang, Nachiketa Sahoo, and Andrew Burton-Jones. "Machine Learning in Information Systems Research", MIS Quarterly Editors' Comments, 2022. source

Few-shot Learning⚓︎

  • Wang, Yaqing, et al. "Generalizing from a few examples: A survey on few-shot learning." ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 53.3 (2020): 1-34. source

Transfer Learning⚓︎

  • Pan, Sinno Jialin, and Qiang Yang. "A survey on transfer learning." IEEE Transactions on knowledge and data engineering 22.10 (2009): 1345-1359. source
  • Weiss, Karl, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, and DingDing Wang. "A survey of transfer learning." Journal of Big data 3.1 (2016): 1-40. source
  • Tan, Chuanqi, et al. "A survey on deep transfer learning." International conference on artificial neural networks. Springer, Cham, 2018. source
  • Zhuang, Fuzhen, et al. "A comprehensive survey on transfer learning." Proceedings of the IEEE 109.1 (2020): 43-76. source

Reinforcement Learning⚓︎

Computer Vision⚓︎

Natural Language Processing⚓︎

  • keon on github.com provides a curated list dedicated to natural language processing at awesome-nlp

Stochastic Differential Equation⚓︎

  • Gardiner, Crispin W. "Handbook of stochastic methods: for physics, chemistry and the natural sciences." (2004). source
  • Dixit, Robert K., and Robert S. Pindyck. "Investment under uncertainty". Princeton university press, 2012. source
  • Klebaner, Fima C. "Introduction to stochastic calculus with applications". World Scientific Publishing Company, 2012. source
  • Evans, Lawrence C. "An introduction to stochastic differential equations". Vol. 82. American Mathematical Soc., 2012. pdf
  • Mikosch, Thomas. "Elementary stochastic calculus with finance in view". World scientific, 1998. source
  • Oksendal, Bernt. "Stochastic differential equations: an introduction with applications". Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. source
  • Mao, Xuerong. "Stochastic differential equations and applications". Elsevier, 2007. source

Theory Building⚓︎

  • Hassan, Nik Rushdi; Lowry, Paul Benjamin; and Mathiassen, Lars (2022) "Useful Products in Information Systems Theorizing: A Discursive Formation Perspective," Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23(2), 418-446. source

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