PhD in Business Administration Program is designed for students who aspire to become faculty members at leading academic institutions.
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1. Critically analyze, evaluate, and synthesize new and complex ideas;
2. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of their field of expertise (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Strategy) and mastery of the skills and methods of research associated with that field;
3. Conceive, design, implement, and adapt a substantial process of research with scholarly integrity and concern for the high ethical standards;
4. Generate original research that extends the frontier of knowledge by developing a substantial body of work, some of which could merit national or international refereed publication;
5. Communicate authoritatively and with professional integrity about their field of expertise (e.g.,Accounting, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Strategy) with others such as their peers, the larger scholarly community, and society in general through research and teaching.
Grades
Papers
Surveys
Conferences
Seminars
Thesis
1. Satisfactory application to the program.
2. Satisfactory completion of all required coursework in the program.
3. Successfully complete PhD qualifying examination.
4. Successfully defending a proposal for a PhD thesis project.
5. Successful viva voce examination of thesis by examiners.
6. Final submission of the written thesis.
- 8 courses:
2) 2 Subject Specific Core Courses
3) 2 Elective Courses
2. Submission and presentation of 2 Research Papers (in Year 1 and Year 2 Summer Semesters) as part of the requirements of the Core Research Skills I course.
PhD Comprehensive Examination (Summer of Year 2).
Submission of an Annual Progress Review at the end of Years 1, 2, and 3.
Presentation of a Thesis proposal (Fall of Year 3).
Defence and submission of a Thesis in Year 4.
The overall 4-year program equates to 240 ECTS.
Before the start of Year 2, during the summer of year 1, each student will choose a primary PhD advisor.
- Foundations of Social Science Research
- Research Methods Fundamentals
- Core Research Skills I
- Critical Thinking & Ethics
- Summer Research Paper
- Subject Specific Course I
- Subject Specific Course II
- Elective I
- Elective II
- Summer Research Paper
- PhD Comprehensive Examination
- Thesis Proposal Presentation
- Final Thesis Submission
- Final Thesis Defense
- Two successful GTAs
- GSB Research Seminars
- Research projects
This course considers the relationship between the dominant philosophical perspectives which inform social science research and the practice of doing social science research. It provides the foundations for learning about social science research by enabling students to justify and explain their own epistemological choices. The course highlights how these choices impact upon questions of research design and method. The course introduces philosophical/theoretical concepts alongside practical issues of research method choice and design.
The course provides a foundational understanding and skillset for conducting both quantitative and qualitative research. The course begins by explaining how research is a systematic, controlled, and empirically based, self-correcting approach for discovery. Thereafter, ontological, epistemological, and methodological foundations of both quantitative and qualitative research traditions are described. For quantitative methods, fundamental mathematical principles, such as Central Limit Theorem, are introduced in a systematic way. Students then make use of real secondary data (from a variety of discipline-specific datasets) to perform and report upon basic univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses (using the R programming language). Thereafter, the fundamental principles and assumptions of qualitative research traditions are described with the assumption that individual and social behavior differ from inanimate natural phenomena. Students learn about basic forms of qualitative analyses, alongside practice using open-source software (QualCoder). Strategies for leveraging AI in an ethical and transparent way are offered throughout.