PhD in Business Administration
Forging New Knowledge
Become an internationally respected scholar by working alongside leading market, management, and economic scientists to develop your own unique research catalog. Our tailored PhD program helps you become part seer, seeing questions and opportunities others do not, and part detective, sleuthing-out how organizations and markets do, and might someday, work. Mixing such creative and critical thinking will empower you to forge new knowledge that informs business and society.
An Apprenticeship Within an
Urban Research University
We immediately welcome you into our research community as a scholar-collaborator; essentially an apprentice. You work closely with our world-class faculty to tailor a program to your interests, and then dive into your research while building your knowledge bases and developing the rigorous thinking necessary to thrive within the academic community. And all of that is done within a supportive research culture that includes our student-centered faculty and our student-run PhD Student Organization, both of which produce a camaraderie that lasts well beyond graduation. Our supportive environment, moreover, includes the opportunities provided by our Urban Setting, whose countless real-world businesses, organizations, and professionals help enrich our research.
Current and former students (plus Professors Biswas and Heath) at the 2023 Association for Consumer Research Conference in Seattle)
YOUR CAREER OPTIONS
We prepare you for various careers that lie at the crossroads of critical and creative thinking together with specific areas of expertise. The most prominent of these careers lie in academia, where you, as a professor, mix teaching and research. However, other career options exist as well, such as those of business consultant, government agency officer or researcher, and author, knowledge-economy careers that are sometimes combined. As examples, you might become a financial analyst at a large bank or the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), or you might become a consumer protection expert at a marketing firm or the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Several of our professors, for example, supplement their academic careers with business consultancies (e.g., Professor Stock in supply chain management), book authorships (e.g., Professor Mithas in digital business strategies), or expert witness work (e.g., Professor Heath’s investigations into potentially deceptive business communications).
Your Immediate Opportunities
Accounting
Please visit our Accountancy Concentration Page for details on our concentration plus snapshots from our featured research faculty.
You may also want to visit our more general Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy page for an overview of the school and our entire faculty, which includes additional
scholars of interest. Many of our faculty conduct research, though the most research-active
among them are on the tenure track (assistant professors, associate professors, and
professors). We also benefit greatly from numerous non-tenure track faculty, some
of whom conduct research and all of whom are industry experts, such that everyone
contributes to our research mission through their scholarship and/or business expertise.
Finance
Please visit our Finance Concentration Page for details on our concentration plus snapshots from our featured research faculty.
You may also want to visit our more general Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance page for an overview of the school and our entire faculty, which includes additional
scholars of interest. Many of our faculty conduct research, though the most research-active
among them are on the tenure track (assistant professors, associate professors, and
professors). We also benefit greatly from numerous non-tenure track faculty, some
of whom conduct research and all of whom are industry experts, such that everyone
contributes to our research mission through their scholarship and/or business expertise.
Information Systems
Please visit our Information Systems Concentration Page for details on our concentration plus snapshots from our featured research faculty.
You may also want to visit our more general School of Information Systems and Management page for an overview of the school and our entire faculty, which includes additional
scholars of interest. Many of our faculty conduct research, though the most research-active
among them are on the tenure track (assistant professors, associate professors, and
professors). We also benefit greatly from numerous non-tenure track faculty, some
of whom conduct research and all of whom are industry experts, such that everyone
contributes to our research mission through their scholarship and/or business expertise.
Marketing
Please visit our Marketing Concentration Page for details on our concentration plus snapshots from our featured research faculty.
You may also want to visit our more general School of Marketing and Innovation page for an overview of the school and our entire faculty, which includes additional
scholars of interest. Many of our faculty conduct research, though the most research-active
among them are on the tenure track (assistant professors, associate professors, and
professors). We also benefit greatly from numerous non-tenure track faculty, some
of whom conduct research and all of whom are industry experts, such that everyone
contributes to our research mission through their scholarship and/or business expertise.
Further Information
Finally, we are as eager to attract high-quality scholars as we are to conduct and publish our research! So if there is anything else we can do to help, PLEASE JUST ASK! We are happy to chat in person, meet online, email, phone, etc., and happy to put you in touch with our current or former doctoral students.
Many thanks for your time and consideration, and all the very best for writing an
exciting new chapter in your life!
--The Muma College PhD Team