faculty-meeting

Faculty Meeting

Your dissertation committee only sees your work through one lens. What if you could hear from forty?

Faculty Meeting gives you a panel of research advisors drawn from the world's major intellectual traditions — Harvard's case-method strategists, Copenhagen's critical theorists, GIBS's African management scholars, CEIBS's China-strategy navigators, and foundational thinkers like Herbert Simon. Each one reads your research question and responds from their tradition, with their frameworks, their standards, and their honest blind spots.

The point is productive disagreement. These advisors don't politely agree with each other. They argue. A Harvard strategist says "show me the competitive dynamics"; a Copenhagen critical scholar responds "whose interests does that framing serve?"; a GIBS pioneer asks "does your theory survive contact with a context where those institutions don't exist?" The friction between them is where the insight lives.

You — the researcher — hear all sides and decide.

What You Get

You type a research question. Here's what comes back.

Ask a single advisor and get feedback in their tradition's voice:

/harvard-strategist What's the competitive dynamics story in my study of hospital M&A?

Assessment: You have a clear empirical setting but you're underspecifying the unit of analysis. Are you studying the acquiring firm's strategy, the target's vulnerability, or the industry dynamics that make consolidation attractive? These are different questions with different theoretical homes...

Key Questions:

1. What does the value chain look like in this market, and where does M&A change it?
2. Are you tracking competitive response from non-acquiring rivals?

Convene a faculty meeting and get 3–5 advisors arguing about your question:

/faculty-meeting Should I use institutional theory or resource-based view to study SOE reform in Vietnam?

The orchestrator picks a panel (here: harvard-strategist, ceibs-navigator, cbs-critical), each gives their full assessment in their own voice, then:

Synthesis

Where they agree: All three insist you cannot study SOE reform without specifying the state's role — it is not "context," it is the phenomenon.

Where they diverge: Harvard frames this as competitive repositioning under institutional change. CEIBS argues the institutional duality (market logic + state logic) IS the research question, not background. CBS asks whose interests "reform" serves and whether the word itself smuggles in a neoliberal assumption.

Productive tension: The disagreement between CEIBS and CBS is the most generative — is "institutional navigation" a neutral description or a euphemism for elite capture?

Find the right advisor when you're not sure who to ask:

/find-advisor I'm studying family business succession in Mexican multinationals

Top matches:

1. egade-family — EGADE (Monterrey Tech). Specializes in exactly this: Latin American family enterprises, multi-Latinas, succession dynamics. [Planned — not yet available]
2. harvard-strategist — Would frame succession as a general management and governance question. Strong on the strategic implications, weaker on family dynamics.

What You Need

Faculty Meeting is a plugin for Claude Code — an AI assistant made by Anthropic that you interact with by typing natural language. It can read your files, search the web, and use specialized tools like Faculty Meeting's advisor personas.

Claude Code runs in two ways — pick whichever you prefer:

• The Claude Code IDE — A desktop app where you chat with Claude alongside your project files
• The terminal — A command-line interface for those comfortable with a terminal

To get started you need:

1. Claude Code — Install it by following Anthropic's setup guide. It takes about 5 minutes.
2. A Claude subscription — Claude Code requires a Max plan (~$100/month) or API credits. There is no free tier for Claude Code.

On cost: We know $100/month is real money on a grad student stipend. If you're evaluating whether it's worth it: Claude Code is useful far beyond Faculty Meeting — it can help with literature searches, data analysis, writing, and coding. Faculty Meeting is one of many things it can do.

Install

Option A: Plugin (recommended — auto-updates)

Once Claude Code is running, type:

/plugin marketplace add phdemotions/faculty-meeting
/plugin install faculty-meeting

That's it. The advisors are available immediately, and you'll automatically get new personas and improvements as we release them.

Option B: Manual

If you prefer to manage updates yourself (requires git):