Eric K. Clemons
Professor Emeritus at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Title:
How to Present a Research Paper or a Job Talk
Workshop Overview
This presentation is aimed at doctoral students and junior faculty. It addresses how best to create a presentation talk in PowerPoint, how to deliver an effective talk, and how to deal with questions during the presentation.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Create a PowerPoint file that will be easy to read and will guide the presenter during his or her talk.
- Design individual PowerPoint pages that will facilitate the audience’s understanding of the discussion.
- Create a PowerPoint file that will have a clear structure, guiding the audience so that the principal points of the talk will be understood and remembered.
- Manage time during the presentation.
- Prepare for questions and understand how to respond to questions that appear hostile or ignorant, or questions that appear indicate lack of understanding.
Target Audience
Graduate students, junior faculty, and anyone who wants to improve his or her presentation skills or share his or her most successful presentation strategies with others.
Workshop Structure
- I will present the methods that appear to have worked best for me, over my decades as a faculty member, advisor, and consultant.
- We will discuss how this may be adapted to work best for you in your own career.
Expected Outcomes
Participants will leave the workshop with:
- A better understanding of how to prepare and deliver a talk
- A better understanding of how to work with and manage their audience.
- And, if they wish, better preparation for the talk that they are going to give at LMDE.
Bio:
For decades Dr. Eric K. Clemons has been a pioneer in the analysis of business strategy, in areas as diverse as changing channel power dynamics in eCommerce to the regulation of technology giants to limit the harm of natural monopolies or mechanisms for the control of disinformation in online social media. He has worked for leaders in organizations as diverse as the London Stock Exchange, Lever Brothers, Capital One, and the Pentagon. For more than 30 years he directed the Project on Information Strategy and Economics, within the Jones Center of the Wharton School. He has held visiting faculty positions at the Harvard Business School, Cornell Engineering, Peking University Law School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Singapore Management University, and Copenhagen Business School’s Law School. His training includes an S.B. in Physics from MIT, an M.S. in Operations Research from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Computer Science from Cornell University.
