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Program Overview
The Ph.D. program in Business Policy/Strategy, housed in the Management department, is designed to produce scholars who wish to conduct high-level theoretical and empirical research and teach at major research institutions. The program stresses close contact between a small group of doctoral students and a highly distinguished faculty.
All students can expect to get exposure to broad academic ideas in management and work closely with a wider range of faculty whose interests intersect with the student’s interests, regardless of their specialization. All doctoral students complete a rigorous program which emphasizes three main aspects: academic coursework, dissertation preparation and graduate assistantship. The program is full-time and takes approximately five years to complete. Ph.D. students receive a stipend and teaching opportunities, as well as a 100 percent tuition supplement and medical insurance subsidy to support learning and research throughout the program.
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This concentration focuses on how organizations operate to leverage their resources, innovate, and create sustained value in a competitive environment. Research in this area can focus on a range of topics pertaining to the firm, including key actors (e.g., executives and managers), contexts (e.g., industry conditions), strategic actions and decisions (e.g., competitive strategies and market selection), and outcomes (e.g., value created for stakeholders). Students in this specialization will develop expertise in research methods which may include archival research, field studies, observational research, structured interviews, experimental studies, and more.
Faculty focusing on the Business Policy/Strategy concentration include:
| Adam Steinbach | Laura Cardinal | D. J. Schepker |
| Patrick Wright | Scott Turner | Erik Hoempler |
Program Structure
The program of study consists of small seminar classes, individual faculty attention and research mentoring relationships wherein doctoral students work closely with faculty members engaged in leading-edge research. All students can expect to get exposure to broad academic ideas in management and work closely with a wider range of faculty whose interests intersect with the student’s interests.
All doctoral students complete a rigorous program which emphasizes three main aspects: academic coursework, dissertation preparation and graduate assistantship.
For more information regarding each of these components and the program progression in general, please visit the Program Structure section.
Placements
Many of our doctoral students make presentations at major academic conferences and graduate with multiple journal publications. They also develop their professional network, which may include Ph.D. alumni who are now faculty at other schools, faculty at other schools who have visited the Moore School and faculty at other schools with whom a doctoral student may co-author with, based on an introduction from his or her faculty advisor.
All of this often translates into great placements and award-winning research — recent graduates have secured faculty positions at some of the nation’s premiere institutions.
Past students are now or have been faculty at top-tier research institutions, including:
- Cornell University
- The University of Tennessee – Knoxville
- Texas A&M
- University of Nebraska
- North Carolina State University
- University of Texas – Dallas
- Wayne State University
- Binghamton University