The doctoral program in Management offers students an opportunity to pursue advanced study with a diverse group of world-renowned management faculty. Management is an interdisciplinary area, combining the study of organizations with areas such as sociology, economics, and psychology. The study of management involves examination of macro- and micro-level factors that affect organization effectiveness and efficiency.

The management Ph.D. program is designed to prepare students to conduct and publish research in top-tier journals and to take academic positions at leading research-based universities in the United States and abroad. The Ph.D. curriculum in management consists of two major tracks: 1) Strategic Management, and 2) Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (OB/HRM). A minor is also available for PhD students working in other specialization areas.

Strategic Management track

Strategic Management deals with the competitive dynamics of firms and industries. Topics of study include sources of competitive advantage, patterns of industry evolution, technological change, firm boundaries, and interfirm collaboration. Students are expected to develop expertise in a foundational discipline, such as economics or sociology, to inform their study of strategy phenomena. Students are also expected to develop mastery in a core set of corresponding research methods, including but not limited to quantitative archival methods.

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management track

This track is concerned with explaining individual behavior, team processes and outcomes, and how employees and organizations interact. Some of the central topics of study include leadership, motivation, decision-making, team performance, behavioral ethics, justice, turnover, and employee well-being. The core body of knowledge of this content draws heavily from the domain of psychology, as well as seminal and contemporary research in OB/HRM. This program also includes a strong research methods foundation, which includes the tools of laboratory experiments and survey-based field research, and a variety of analytic approaches. This track may also include qualitative research as well.