The Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, the nation's first business Ph.D. has approximately 100 students in residence. The program helps students develop their innovation, research skill and prepare for work in top academic institutions worldwide. The flexible full-time program takes approximately five years to complete from the start of academic studies to defending a dissertation. Students will select a dissertation discipline in accounting, econometrics and statistics, economics, finance, management science/operations management, managerial and organizational behavior, marketing or organizations and markets. Classroom instruction, close research assistance from professors and informative seminars, brown bag lunch sessions and workshops complement the student's research. Notable alumni of the school have gone on to become CEOs of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch.
Booth School of Business
Ph.D. Program Office
The University of Chicago
5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-7298
chicagobooth.edu
Harvard Business School earned the overall No. 1 ranking on the U.S. News 2010 list of the best business schools worldwide. Candidates may pursue a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) or a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) with specialties in business economics, organizational behavior, science technology and management and health policy management. Program research results in the publication of approximately 35 books and 300 academic papers annually. The full-time curriculum requires a residence of at least two years, with program completion in four or five years. MBA-holders from an AACSB-accredited institution are exempt from taking a semester of MBA-related course requirements.
Harvard Business School
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
1350 Massachusetts Ave.
Holyoke Center 350
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-5315
hbs.edu
The Leonard N. Stern School of Business ranked No. 2 from 2002 to 2006 in the Financial Times doctoral ranking category which gets determined by the quantity of Ph.D. alumni who get hired at the top 50 ranked business schools in the U.S. Some of the school's Ph.D. graduates have gone on to teaching positions at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, The University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, Stanford University and Wharton College. Students can pursue doctoral studies in accounting, economics, finance, information systems, marketing, operations management, organizational behavior/theory or statistics. The school offers a pre-doctorate program to prepare for the Ph.D., a four-semester non-credit tuition-free program with a living stipend open to bachelor degree holders and beyond.
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
NYU Stern
Henry Kaufman Management Center
44 West Fourth St.
New York, NY 10012
212-998-0600
stern.nyu.edu