PhD Program Academics

The doctoral program is directed toward producing accounting scholars—individuals who have the technical knowledge and insight necessary to ask interesting and relevant research questions, as well as the research skills required to discover appropriate answers. This training is designed to provide a strong foundation for a career as an accounting academic at a research-oriented institution.

The doctoral program in Finance is directed toward producing academic scholars in the areas of banking, corporate finance, and investments. Students learn empirical, methodological and theoretical skills required to conduct original research that creates novel and profound insights and that answers interesting and relevant research questions. Overall the program is designed to provide PhD students with a strong foundation for a successful career as a Finance academic at a research-oriented institution.

Questrom’s Information Systems department (IS) produces high impact research on how information technologies are transforming organizations, industries, and society. The goal of this program is to prepare students for academic careers in IS and related fields. In addition to gaining a broad understanding of the field of IS as a whole, our PhD students develop a deep and specialized mastery of a specific research area that will carry them through the early phases of their careers as productive scholars.

The marketing doctoral program equips PhD candidates with the theoretical, methodological, and substantive expertise needed for successful scholarly careers in marketing. It offers students the interdisciplinary environment to generate creative research ideas, the analytic skills to evaluate and execute the research studies that inform these questions, and experience communicating to the marketing community through published articles, in conferences and seminars, as well as inside the classroom. Students assist in faculty research, co-authoring papers and presentations, and continuing as colleagues throughout their professional careers.

The PhD in Mathematical Finance is for students seeking careers in research and academia. Our PhD students bring with them a deep interest in the creation of complex models and financial instruments as well as a passion for in-depth analysis. If you have a strong affinity for quantitative reasoning and the ability to connect advanced mathematical theories with real-world phenomena, you’ll thrive in the PhD in Mathematical Finance program.

A sampling of the research interests of Questrom faculty and doctoral students include:

• Derivative Securities
• Consumption-Portfolio Choice
• Asset Pricing and Market Frictions
• Arbitrage and Completeness of Financial Markets
• Population Finance
• Life-cycle Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Managerial Contracts
• Numerical Methods

The Management & Organizations doctoral program provides graduates with the theoretical, methodological, and substantive expertise needed for successful academic careers. The program offers students an interdisciplinary environment that draws from psychology, sociology, and organization studies to generate creative research ideas, the analytic skills to evaluate and execute research studies, and experience communicating findings (through articles, conferences, and inside the classroom).

An organization’s ability to create value is key to its survival. Through operations, strategy is translated into actions that deliver that value. That’s why the operations and technology management doctoral program focuses its efforts in five value-creating areas: process management, supply chain management, technology innovation, healthcare delivery, and the application of technology to promote product and process innovations and to solve business problems. The program will ensure you graduate with critical management knowledge and perspectives, expertise in your field, and the research skills to generate new insights.

The field of strategy is distinguished from others by its focus on the general management of the whole organization. A central pursuit in the field is understanding how firms generate performance advantages over competitors, which involves the study of both internal, firm-specific factors as well as the influence of external, environmental contexts. The Strategy & Innovation doctoral program provides graduates with the theoretical, methodological, and substantive expertise needed for successful scholarly careers in strategic management and innovation. It offers students an interdisciplinary environment that draws from economics, sociology, and strategy to generate creative research ideas, analytic skills to evaluate and execute research studies, and experience communicating findings—through published articles, in conferences and seminars, and inside the classroom.