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Doctoral Research Opportunities

Find Your Match

You’ll collaborate with world-class faculty who mentor you and share your research interests. During admissions, we carefully match your research focus with our faculty’s work. They provide individualized attention, partnering with you to solve critical management and organizational problems, considering their broader impact on communities.

Seminars

A collaborative forum to build the intellectual capital, presentation skills, and job market readiness you need to succeed—led by faculty and peers alike.

Research Seminars

These seminars are hosted by your department. Questrom has an active faculty seminar series where distinguished researchers from other universities present recent work.

Student seminars

A key aspect of doctoral training is the PhD IDEAS research seminar series, where students present to PhD students across different departments and receive feedback at various stages of their projects. These seminars run throughout the year, foster the exchange of ideas across departments, help build a strong sense of community within the Questrom doctoral program, and provide valuable opportunities for students to sharpen their presentation skills and better prepare for the academic job market.

Job Market Seminars

These seminars provide the opportunity to defend your work and receive feedback. The experience is all about preparing you for your professional life and positioning you for candidacy as a faculty member at a research institution.

Recent PhD Student Publications

Our Research Institutes

Research institutes at Questrom drive innovation through research, forums, and ongoing relationships with businesses across the globe. By tackling real-world challenges and forging industry partnerships, our institutes not only advance knowledge but actively contribute to positive change.

Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, and Society

The mission of the Institute is to help students, industry leaders, regulators, and the broader public understand and appreciate the role business and markets do, can, and should play in creating lasting prosperity, advancing societal goals, and solving global challenges.

Digital Business Institute

The Digital Business Institute nurtures a vibrant community of students, faculty, and researchers alike with interests in digital business, focusing on the practical application of research to the real-world challenges in our ever-changing business world.

The Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy

The Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy develops ethical capacity in today’s and tomorrow’s global business decision-makers to lead with integrity, inspire courage through action, and use their voices boldly to impact their organizations and the world.

Institute for Leadership & Work

The Institute for Leadership & Work exists to elevate leaders who are responsible and committed to advancing meaningful work that delivers enduring value for people and organizations, while expanding the dialogue beyond traditional boundaries to stakeholders and C-suite board members.

Technology & Policy Research Initiative

The Technology & Policy Research Initiative (TPRI) supports independent inter-disciplinary research on the causes and consequences of technological change. TPRI also works with leaders from the business and policy communities to translate research results into fact-based innovation policies that promote equitable and sustainable long-term growth.

GLOB~S

GLOB~S harnesses data science to unravel and tackle the complexity of managing geographically-dispersed organizations and foster sustainable innovation, firm profitability, and social welfare globally.