The principal goal of this program is to educate scholars who will become faculty members in leading international business schools or universities. It is focused on quality (max. 3 students recruited per year, per concentration) and ensures the research production of students through high-quality supervision and training. It is a 4 to 5-year program: the first two years consist of courses, seminars plus joint research projects with faculty members and ends with a comprehensive examination. The remaining 2 or 3 years are devoted to dissertation work. The production and co-production of rigorous, high impact research is one of the requirements of the program, making Ph.D graduates highly attractive on the academic job market.
Four concentrations are proposed to prospective students: 1) Marketing, 2) Organizational Theory and Human Resources Management 3) Strategy and Management of Innovation and 4) Finance. The context AACSB forecasts a severe shortage of professors holding a Ph.D in business administration by 2012: The principal goal of this program is thus to produce scholars who will become faculty members in leading international business schools or universities. Why Choose the Grenoble Ecole de Management Ph.D program?
Concentrations
Phase 1: Training in research During phase 1, students receive a thorough and sophisticated training in the latest methods of inquiry and state-of-the-art knowledge. The program is taught entirely in English.
1. Training in the chosen field: Depending on the student’s background, the student may be required to follow some courses (180h of courses maximum) from the Master of Sciences in Marketing or the Master of Sciences in Innovation and Technology Management programs. The specific choice of courses will be made on an individual basis. Possible courses include marketing management, management of innovation, brand management, etc…
2. Training in research: The Ph.D student will have to take at least 300h of advanced PhD seminars over the first two years period.
All students will have to take seminars to the most commonly used methodologies in business administration research (minimum of 200h). The goal is to provide the students with a library of different methods. Depending on the chosen concentration, students will then have to choose the methodologies they want to deepen.
Besides methodological seminar, students will have to take at least 100h of seminars on advanced questions in the chosen concentration (marketing, strategy…).
Advanced Marketing seminars (Marketing concentration):
Advanced Strategic Management seminars (Strategy and Management of Innovation concentration):
3. Practical Training in Research: Immediately after their arrival in the program, students are invited to integrate at least one research project of their choice. During this research project they will have to perform several tasks such as: literature review, data collection supervision, settings of the experimental procedure, writing of a specific part of an article. Students will also have to participate in internal research workshops (one day per month).
In order to move on to phase 2, the student will have to:
In order to assure students are progressing adequately, a formal review of the student's progress is undertaken annually. The student has to provide an annual report discussing each year accomplishments, shortcomings, areas of interest and how the student would like to be positioned.
Phase 2: Dissertation work This stage is devoted to the dissertation work of the student. The student will have to choose his/her Ph.D supervisor and two committee members that will provide guidance on specific topics (e.g. econometrics, neural networks…). The committee members may be faculty not belonging to Grenoble Ecole de Management. The student has the possibility to defend his/her Ph.D on the basis of his/her publications.
The doctoral dissertation is designed to demonstrate that the candidate is capable of conducting significant independent scholarly research. The dissertation is expected to be of such scope, magnitude, and originality as to indicate that the student has acquired a command of the area being investigated and that s/he has the ability to contribute new knowledge or outlook to the field.
Prior coursework in business administration is not mandatory for this program. Courses in related disciplines such as economics, mathematics, engineering, statistics or psychology provide the student with the background necessary for integrating and understanding the concepts taught in the Ph.D program. If selected, the student will be invited for an interview and a visit of Grenoble Ecole de Management facilities.
Timing
Application deadline is May 3rd 2010 for a start of the program September 20th 2010. Late applications may be considered if any openings remain.
Admissions Nadège Friess + 33 (0) 476 706 513 Program Director Olivier Trendel + 33 (0) 476 706 525