Date Nights
The e-mail message was one of the longest and most detailed Dr. Ariana Pinello had ever received from a student. It recited countless facts and information bits from a class Dr. Pinello had taught, including some she had herself forgotten—and with good reason: the class had taken place a full year ago. The student had…
Read MoreThe Mathematics of Life
The reminders would arrive in Helen Brown’s mailbox, like clockwork, every year. The wrong time of year, as far as she was concerned. “Those PhD Project mailings would always come at bonus time,” recalls the erstwhile corporate and Big Four accountant. The message in those PhD Project brochures was seeping into her consciousness, but next…
Read MoreTo MBA or Not to MBA?
For Angela Andrews changing jobs in the corporate world had become a depressing routine. “You’re in a different cubicle, but it’s the same job.” Despite a string of successful stints in financial accounting at top corporations, Dr. Andrews had never landed in the niche that felt just right. “I couldn’t find the job that fit,”…
Read MoreIntrovert or Extrovert?
At first the idea of Michael Kimbrough, rising star at a leading accounting firm, becoming a business school professor seemed just about half right to him. Conducting research and delving into analyses of business issues had always appealed to him, but opportunities to do so in the deadline-delineated life of corporate client service were limited.…
Read MoreCross the Ocean
María Cabán-García, already a college professor, lacked three things in her life: the letters Ph.D. and all they stood for. To earn them, she uprooted her life and family, left her native home in Puerto Rico, and took on a challenge so daunting that she dared not to dwell on it too closely. Dr. Cabán-García…
Read MoreYou Mean More
The mailings finally got to him. Danny Lanier, public accountant, had reached that point in life and career where he was starting to wonder where true fulfillment might lie. It was then that he began paying closer attention to The PhD Project mailers that seemed to be arriving a couple of times a year with…
Read MoreHard Choice, Easy Decision
Francisco Roman had just earned his Master’s degree in economics, and the future looked bright. But a tough choice loomed ahead for the young financial analyst: on one side of his desk sat two exciting job offers in trans-national companies. Spread out on the desk’s other side was a stack of Roman’s application papers for…
Read MoreA Source of Inspiration
Carolyn Callahan doesn’t shy away from the title of trailblazer. The former University of Louisville College of Business Dean and Vice-Provost earned her doctoral degree from Michigan State University in E. Lansing and in her first academic position at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst supported the launch of her research career. This occurred at…
Read MoreLifting One Another Up
A second-year accounting doctoral student from Arizona State University named Thomas Lopez was among the presenters at the first PhD Project conference in 1994. And from that moment on, he’s been deeply connected and dedicated to The Project’s mission. Today, he’s known as Dr. Lopez to students at the Culverhouse College of Business at The…
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