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Going for your doctorate or already have it? What was your dissertation about?
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My Doctorate is in Homeland Security and my Dissertation is on Public Attitudes towards Police Examining the effects of the NYPD use of Stop Question and Frisk and how it impacts police community relationship in the areas of trust and cooperation.
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Here's the APA citation for mine:
Hatfield, D. D. (2009). Relationships between emotional intelligence competencies and transformational leadership skills: U.S. Government civil servant leaders. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (3371528)
The most important thing is to pick a topic you're really, really interested in, because you are going to live, sleep, and eat that topic for a few years! You don't want to get bored with it halfway through!
Hatfield, D. D. (2009). Relationships between emotional intelligence competencies and transformational leadership skills: U.S. Government civil servant leaders. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (3371528)
The most important thing is to pick a topic you're really, really interested in, because you are going to live, sleep, and eat that topic for a few years! You don't want to get bored with it halfway through!
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I am in the process of writing my dissertation right now. Its focus is on ‘how do veteran-owned small businesses effectively utilize SBA programs as a strategy for building capacity and competiveness?'
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You might want to check out Hardy Stone's "VetLikeMe" site and newsletter he puts together for VOSB and SDVOSB. It has a lot of useful information in it, and he is always looking for contributing authors. I suspect you'll have a lot to contribute along the way! http://vetlikeme.org/va-cve-verification-does-not-provide-affiliation-shield-says-sba-oha/
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My doctoral dissertation was on online video game addiction and the U.S. Military. I successfully defended my dissertation in 2012.
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LTC (Join to see) I used five case studies from my patient load with online gaming as a factor in their dysfunction. Using the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) as a measure, I was able to apply CBT-IA in their treatment.
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LTC (Join to see) - that sounds very interesting. I bet it was "easier" to do as it seems relevant and interesting. I've seen some topics that even those trying to do the research were bored from it!
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LTC (Join to see) - Crunching the numbers was tedious, but writing the results section was fun.
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LTC (Join to see) I can relate! I had to sort through all the college and universities in the US down to the ones that were brick and mortar 4-year colleges and universities and had been in existence and reported their enrollment and Clery Act information all six years that my study covered. That is harder than one would think! Then pull the Clery Act data for those schools that Excel randomly selected and then hello SPSS!
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Already have it. Sorry for the lengthy answer, but you asked:
My dissertation was a finance dissertation that examined tiered market structures. It focused on the June 2006 restructuring of the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, where the listing environment changed from two to three tiers (with the top tier having the highest listing standards for any exchange in the world). The first portion examined market quality. Theories predicted that different listing and disclosure requirements could result in different levels of information production across the NASDAQ tiers, and thus result in different market quality characteristics. I found some cross-sectional evidence of market quality differences, but did not find evidence of market quality changes when firms changed tiers. Within the NASDAQ trading environment, this result is consistent with a visibility effect, where better (lesser) known stocks are more (less) liquid due to higher levels of investor participation. The second portion examined the reputation effect resulting from NASDAQ’s tiered structure. Theories indicated that exchanges choose listing and disclosure standards to maximize the combination of its reputation value and the value of cash flows from listing and trading fees (of firms listed on their exchanges). I found that NASDAQ’s 2006 restructuring did not appear to enhance its reputation, either directly or indirectly. The restructuring did not result in any positive announcement effect for NASDAQ firms. Further, I found little evidence to support any announcement effects as firms cross into new tiers. Lastly, I found that the restructuring did not appear to have helped NASDAQ become more competitive in the marketplace for attracting new initial public offerings.
My dissertation was a finance dissertation that examined tiered market structures. It focused on the June 2006 restructuring of the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, where the listing environment changed from two to three tiers (with the top tier having the highest listing standards for any exchange in the world). The first portion examined market quality. Theories predicted that different listing and disclosure requirements could result in different levels of information production across the NASDAQ tiers, and thus result in different market quality characteristics. I found some cross-sectional evidence of market quality differences, but did not find evidence of market quality changes when firms changed tiers. Within the NASDAQ trading environment, this result is consistent with a visibility effect, where better (lesser) known stocks are more (less) liquid due to higher levels of investor participation. The second portion examined the reputation effect resulting from NASDAQ’s tiered structure. Theories indicated that exchanges choose listing and disclosure standards to maximize the combination of its reputation value and the value of cash flows from listing and trading fees (of firms listed on their exchanges). I found that NASDAQ’s 2006 restructuring did not appear to enhance its reputation, either directly or indirectly. The restructuring did not result in any positive announcement effect for NASDAQ firms. Further, I found little evidence to support any announcement effects as firms cross into new tiers. Lastly, I found that the restructuring did not appear to have helped NASDAQ become more competitive in the marketplace for attracting new initial public offerings.
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LTC Kevin B. I never understood why we have different stock markets like NASDAQ. But I have an idea of what you were studying. Were you surprised by your results or were you expecting these?
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LTC (Join to see) - The stock markets are just for-profit companies who all compete against each other. We used to have a few major exchanges and a bunch of regional exchanges. In the 90s and 00s they went through a period of consolidation though.
We expected to find some significant market quality and asset pricing results. The absence of significant results was quite surprising. It went against what the theories predicted.
We expected to find some significant market quality and asset pricing results. The absence of significant results was quite surprising. It went against what the theories predicted.
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I wrote my dissertation on how Bush, Gore and Buchanan used email as a campaign tool in the 2000 presidential election.
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My dissertation examined the role students' demographics and their satisfaction with educational technology plays on attrition patterns in online programs in the military.
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My dissertation was on the economic, political, tactical, and strategic value of information in times of crises at multiple levels of military, intelligence, foreign service, and political decision making process. It focused in particular on the need to preserve an appropriate balance between staff and line officer populations to acquire, analyze, distribute, and render decisions in an environment where too often critically needed staff resources are redeployed to command positions abandoning the critical mission of working decisionmaking tasks into shape ripe for optimal decisionmaking up the chain of command. While I employed a simplistic mathematical model this work was well received by the intelligence community. Warmest Regards, Sandy
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I'm pretty sure I can understand why the IC folks liked it, Sandy. For the same reason the ops community probably didn't like it as much, I suspect. The problem I've seen is the IC is horrible at the first part, but thinks they are great at it. They are good at the second part, but only within their own little world. I'd like to just shake them sometimes to show them where the real wars are fought and make them see what the warfighters really need from the IC. I don't think they'll every quite get it, though. Just one man's simple opinion! Good to hear from you. Is your dissertation published anywhere I might find it? VR, Dave
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SGM (Join to see). I agree completely . . . will ask if redacted version is available. Warmest Regards, Sandy
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My doctorate was law school, so didn't really apply. I did write my MA thesis on Japanese Naval Development from 1870 to 1940.
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Andrew, it took you 70 years to write your MA thesis? That's a long time - it must have been grueling! :-)
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My dissertation identified the influences for using social media by employee in the organization.
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