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A joint degree offered by HBS and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the PhD in Business Economics combines economic analysis with the practical aspects of business. This degree is primarily intended to prepare students for careers in research and teaching in business administration and related fields of economics. The general management approach of the Harvard Business School is an important ingredient in the program.
The program is distinguished from the Harvard PhD in Economics by its greater emphasis on business fields and its focus on the use of economic analysis and statistical methods in dealing effectively with management problems in these applied business fields. At the same time, it is distinguished from the Doctor of Business Administration degree by its greater emphasis on economic theory and econometric analysis.
Possible fields of specialization include:
* capital markets and financial institutions
* corporate finance
* labor relations
* organizations and markets
* international business
* business strategy and industrial organization
* marketing
* technology and operations management
* corporate governance and control
* business and government
Each field is conceived as a synthesis of some area in business administration with those of economics that contribute appropriate theoretical and methodological tools. Students take an active role in selecting and defining the combination of subjects that will make up their own individual fields of specialization.
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The new DBA program in Strategy encourages students to pursue multi-disciplinary research that utilizes multiple methodologies—quantitative, as well as qualitative—to study how companies and industries around the world develop and sustain competitive advantage.
Faculty affiliated with the Strategy group study a wide array of topics. Many of these topics can best be addressed by drawing on both microeconomics, the foundation that has traditionally been used to study strategy, and on other complementary disciplines. For example, work on how managers perceive their strategic choices requires delving into the broad literature on cognition, which itself draws on psychology and the behavioral sciences. Work on non-market strategy and the regulatory environment of the firm might well draw on political science and law. The DBA in Strategy provides students with the multi-disciplinary training required to examine such questions.
Students in the program are expected to master graduate-level microeconomic theory and econometrics. In addition, they are expected to devote substantial time to mastering one additional complementary discipline, such as psychology, sociology, and political science, and developing expertise in research methodologies suited to their particular interests, such as qualitative analysis, designing effective fieldwork, and analysis of survey data.
In addition to the DBA in Strategy, the Strategy unit offers a Ph.D. in Business Economics, which is designed to attract students interested in pursuing research using a purely economics-based methodology.
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The doctoral program in Accounting and Management, at a very fundamental level, focuses on understanding the role of information and measurement systems for:
* Allocating resources among firms in the economy, and between departments or divisions of individual firms.
* Rewarding and monitoring the performance of managers.
* Formulating, executing and evaluating strategy by firm managers.
* Understanding the profitability of suppliers, products, customers, distribution channels, and business units.
* Managing franchise risk.
More detailed questions that have recently been examined include:
1. What roles do financial reporting and voluntary disclosure of financial and non-financial metrics play in corporate managers' communication with external stakeholders? How do the incentives of corporate managers, standard setters, auditors, analysts and investment managers affect management communication with investors and the allocation of resources in capital markets?
2. How do managers use cost accounting systems to measure the profitability of various cost objects such as products, customers, suppliers, and business units? How can these systems be used for supporting managerial decisions related to sourcing, pricing, servicing customers, and cost control particularly in inter-organizational settings?
3. How do managers set up control systems for formulating, communicating, and implementing a business unit's strategy? How can these measurement systems be used for understanding the difference between bad strategy and bad implementation?
4. How do managers formulate incentive contracts to: (i) induce employees to concentrate on the desired quantity and mix of tasks; (ii) improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the employees; (iii) prompt collaborative partners to take the desired actions and truthfully share their private information; and (iv) improve the efficiency and effectiveness of collaborative partnerships and supply chains?
This program, leading to a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), draws on economic, behavioral, and administrative theory to focus on the firm and its management. Through a combination of discipline- and field-based methods, the curriculum enables students to master concepts and research skills directly relevant to business problems. Candidates must come to understand the point of view of practicing managers and be able to bring theory and careful research to bear in illuminating important business problems.
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Advances in engineering, science, and technology are having profound impact on business. Conversely, business-related issues and economic factors are critical forces that are shaping the development of new technologies. Throughout the intersecting territories of business and technology lie tremendous opportunities for valuable academic studies. A new generation of scholars educated in both business management and technology is needed to investigate and create new knowledge at the interface of these two disciplines.
The STM program will be aimed at carrying out systematic, searching and innovative studies of the impact of science and technology on business, and business aspects of technology development. The goal of the program is to develop new methodologies and generate research that explores the interaction between technology and management.
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The program will accept students with two types of backgrounds: students who already have a strong background in engineering or science but no formal business training; and students who already have a strong background in engineering or science and MBA degrees.
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A Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) in Technology and Operations Management concerns itself with a broad range of issues in manufacturing and service operations, including:
* management of new product and process development and technological innovation
* operations management and strategy
* logistics and supply chain management
The faculty in this specialization come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, such as economics, operations research, engineering, materials science, physics, psychology, and sociology. Faculty and doctoral student research integrates discipline-based approaches with a strong field-based, problem-oriented, and managerial perspective. Research themes in this area are diverse in perspective and problem focus, yet are integrated and define the intellectual synthesis the faculty seek to develop. These themes include:
* the power of learning and improvement
* the role of capabilities in creating competitive advantage
* the importance of process understanding and control
* the leverage achieved through integration in high-performance operating systems
Examples of recent and current doctoral thesis research are:
* studies of product-development strategies and performance in automobiles, high-performance workstations, and semiconductors
* the economics of flexible manufacturing and quick-response systems in the apparel industry
* the diffusion of the Toyota Production System
* the impact of computer-integrated manufacturing strategies on quality, productivity, and flexibility performance
Through a combination of discipline- and field-based methods, the curriculum enables students to master concepts and research skills directly relevant to business problems. Candidates must come to understand the point of view of practicing managers and be able to bring theory and careful research to bear in illuminating important business problems.
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Research and teaching in the field of Management is at the core of Harvard Business School. The DBA Program in Management focuses on research creating management theory and knowledge that is relevant to management practice. Through a curriculum covering multiple disciplines and functional perspectives and through thesis work that typically includes field-based research, students master concepts and research skills that enable them to do research that is directly relevant to business problems.
Students in Management choose at least one discipline in which to anchor their research, usually economics, sociology, or organizational behavior. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of Management is its multidisciplinary perspective. As the phenomena of general management cuts across economics, psychology, sociology, organizational behavior, and administrative sciences, our students develop discipline-based expertise in at least two substantive domains.
Our students’ dissertations typically focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, general management, comparative organizations, organizational learning, development of influence networks in strategic alliances, and transition from entrepreneurial to professional management in domestic and international settings.
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The PhD in Organizational Behavior trains scholars who are able to draw on the concepts and methods of psychology and sociology in conducting research on behavior and management within complex organizations. Students and faculty give special attention to studies that bridge the gap between research and theory on one hand, and constructive organizational practice on the other.
Offered jointly by the Departments of Psychology and Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School, the program combines training in the theory and methods of psychology and sociology, the study of business administration, and empirical research on organizational phenomena. Students have the choice of focusing their research at either the micro (i.e. psychological, interpersonal) or macro (i.e. sociological, organizational) level.
Drawing on resources from each of the participating faculties, the program prepares students for careers as researchers and teachers. Program graduates will be comfortable working either in disciplinary departments or in professional schools-especially schools of management.
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