About Robert

Robert Vesco

I'm doctoral student at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

I want people to pursue opportunities and happiness and I believe entrepreneurship is one important way people can do that.

My research interests include understanding (a) why some areas are more entrepreneurial than others, (b) what drives people to pursue entrepreneurship, and (c) how can policies foster effective and sustainable entrepreneurship.

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General Grad School Advice

Orgtheory.net has an excellent list of general grad school advice

#1: Get the rules!

#2: The unwritten rules of graduate school.

#3: Choosing a graduate program.

#4: How to make the best of course work.

Omar has useful things to say about learning to be a scholar.

#5: Graduate school exams.

#6: Why friends are important.

#7: Picking your adviser.

#8: Choosing people for your committee who aren’t the chair.

#9: Why you shouldn’t pay for graduate school.

#10: Choose a dissertation topic.

#11: What to do while you are working on the dissertation.

#12: Writing your dissertation, part 1.

#13: Writing your dissertation, part 2.

#14: Sorry, you can’t write your dissertation in 15 minutes a day.

#15: Working With Your Committee

#16: About Teaching

#16.2: More About Teaching

#17 All in the Family

#18 What Professors Can do to Help

Kieran on toxic grad programs, following Leiter.

#19 Words for Women

#20 For Students of Color

It Takes A Village to Raise a PhD

#21 When to quit

#21.2 When to quit, follow up

#22 Publishing in graduate school

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