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UCLA Anderson Ph.D. program

Where Brilliant Minds Break Through

Professor Chris Tang, prolific researcher in Management and Operations, with Rob Richmond, researcher in foreign currency investment.

Welcome to UCLA Anderson’s Doctoral Program — the first step in pursuing an academic career in management.

From the dean of our program.

"On behalf of our faculty, thank you for visiting the UCLA Anderson Ph.D. program! If you're serious about advancing our understanding of business disciplines through rigorous research, I invite you to explore everything our Ph.D. program has to offer. You'll have the opportunity to train with world-renowned scholars and alongside the next generation of researchers. In that pursuit, you will have UCLA's resources and strengths as a world-class research institution available to you."

Join us as we expand the boundaries of business knowledge. Apply to become one of tomorrow's leading scholars today.

Professor Stephen Spiller Associate Dean and Director Ph.D. Program UCLA Anderson School of Management

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Kevin Huang ('22) Assistant Professor, CUHK-Shenzhen

Noncompliance with SEC Regulations: Evidence from Timely Loan Disclosures

Jon Bogard ('22) Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Target, distance, and valence: Unpacking the effects of normative feedback

Nur Kaynar Keles ('22) Assistant Professor, Cornell

Discovering Causal Models with Optimization: Confounders, Cycles, and Feature Selection

Geoff Zheng ('20) Assistant Professor NYU Shanghai

Growth Options, Incentives, and Pay for Performance: Theory and Evidence

Sebastian Ottinger ('21) Assistant Professor CERGE-EI

The Political Economy of Propaganda: Evidence from US Newspapers

Daniel Walters  ('17) Assistant Professor INSEAD

Investor memory of past performance is positively biased and predicts overconfidence

Marissa Sharif (’17) Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School

The Effect of Categorization on Goal Progress Perceptions and Motivation

Marco Testoni  ('19) Assistant Professor Tilburg University

The market value spillovers of technological acquisitions: Evidence from patent-text analysis

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before you go

Help us keep in touch — it won’t take long, developing the next generation of business scholars.

Fuqua's PhD Program in Business Administration (CIP 52.1399, STEM eligible) prepares candidates for research and teaching careers at leading educational institutions and for careers where advanced research and analytical capabilities are needed.

At Fuqua, you'll develop close working relationships with leading scholars in your field in a stimulating and collaborative learning environment. We encourage strong collaborations between students and faculty, both within your academic area and across different areas, in order to foster the groundbreaking interdisciplinary research we're known for.

Academic Experience

Our PhD program focuses on three critical development areas to prepare you for your career:

• Independent inquiry
• Competence in research methodology
• Communication of research results

From the start, you'll be introduced to rigorous coursework and the research activities across our faculty and your PhD student peers.

Our Faculty

In our PhD degree program, you'll work with our world-renowned faculty who are recognized for excellence in both teaching and research, and for their accessibility across degree programs.

Program Requirements

The PhD in Business Administration is a degree of the Graduate School of Duke University and follows the degree requirements set by Duke's Graduate School. In general, the PhD program requires an average of 5 years to complete. After you and a faculty member in your academic area determine your specific study program, according to your interests and goals, you'll be required to:

• Gain expertise in your area of special interest through your coursework and independent study
• Complete a preliminary qualifiying exam in this area of study by the third year of residence, or earlier
• Defend your dissertation successfully

How to Apply

If you have any questions about Fuqua's PhD programs, please contact our PhD Program Office +1 919.660.7862 or by email . Applications for the PhD program can be found online on the Duke Graduate School website . The application deadline is December 14.

Admission is based on both merit and on a competitive basis. On average, each academic area matriculates 2-3 students each year. The acceptance rate ranges between 2% and 8% across the areas.

Recent PhD Placements

Oliver Binz  - Accounting

• The Information Content of Corporate Earnings: Evidence from the Securities Exchange Act of 1934   Journal of Accounting Research, 2022
• Firms’ Response to Macroeconomic Estimation Errors Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2022
• Managerial Response to Macroeconomic Uncertainty: Implications for Firm Profitability The Accounting Review, 2022

Gregory Burke  - Accounting

• SEC Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposals: No-Action Requests, Determinants, and the Role of SEC Staff   Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2023

Matt Kubic  - Accounting

• Regulator Continuity and Decision-Making Quality: Evidence from SEC Comment Letters The Accounting Review, forthcoming
• State Sponsors of Terrorism Disclosure and SEC Financial Reporting Oversight Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2021
• Examining the Examiners: SEC Error Detection Rates and Human Capital Allocation The Accounting Review, 2021
• Time to Get It Right: An Examination of Post-Acquisition Fair Value Adjustments Journal of Financial Reporting, 2021

Chen Chen  - Decision Sciences

• Dynamic Pricing of Relocating Resources in Large Networks Management Science, 2021

Mingliu Chen  - Decision Sciences

• Optimal Monitoring Schedule in Dynamic Contracts Operations Research, 2020

Yan Chen  - Decision Sciences

• Society of Agents: Regret Bounds of Concurrent Thompson Sampling NeurIPS 2022, accepted

Huseyin Gurkan  - Decision Sciences

• Informing the Public About a Pandemic Management Science, 2021
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• Multistage Intermediation in Display Advertising Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020

Cagin Uru  - Decision Sciences

• Sequential Search with Acquisition Uncertainty Management Science, forthcoming
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Sophie Yu  - Decision Sciences

• Testing Correlation of Unlabeled Random Graphs Annals of Applied Probability, forthcoming
• Testing Network Correlation Efficiently via Counting Trees Annals of Statistics, accepted
• Settling the Sharp Reconstruction Thresholds of Random Graph Matching IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022

Jingwei Zhang  - Decision Sciences

• On the Strength of Relaxations of Weakly Coupled Stochastic Dynamic Programs Operations Research, forthcoming
• Dynamic Programs with Shared Resources and Signals: Dynamic Fluid Policies and Asymptotic Optimality Operations Research, forthcoming

Hanjing Zhu - Decision Sciences

• One-Pass SGD in Over-Parametrized Two-Layer Neural Network AISTATS, 2021

Rafael Alves  - Finance

• Forecasting Large Realized Covariance Matrices: The Benefits of Factor Models and Shrinkage Research Policy, 2022

John Barry  - Finance

• Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis Journal of Financial Economics, 2022

Hao Pang  - Finance

• Common shocks in stocks and bonds Journal of Financial Economics, 2022
• Contagion in a network of heterogeneous banks Journal of Banking and Finance, 2021

Danbee Chon  - Management & Organizations

• Disentangling the Process and Content of Self-Awareness: a Review, Critical Assessment, and Synthesis Academy of Management Annals, 2021

Sean Fath  - Management & Organizations

• Encouraging Self-Blinding in Hiring Behavioral Science and Policy, forthcoming
• How Reflecting on Experiences of Disadvantage Can Lead White Men to Perceive Racial Privilege Harvard Business Review, forthcoming
• Blinding Curiosity: Exploring Preferences for “Blinding” One’s Own Judgment Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2022
• Self-Views of Disadvantage and Success Impact Perceptions of Privilege Among White Men Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2022
• Why Putting on Blinders Can Help Us See More Clearly MIT Sloan Management Review, 2021
• The Highs and Lows of Hierarchy in Multiteam Systems Academy of Management Journal, 2021
• Signaling Creative Genius: How Perceived Social Connectedness Influences Judgments of Creative Potential Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2021

Carman W Fowler  - Management & Organizations

• Seen and Not Seen: How People Judge Ambiguous Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2022

Anyi Ma  - Management & Organizations

• On the Mutual Constitution of Person and Culture: Examining the Link Between Perceived Control and Cultural Tightness-Looseness Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, forthcoming
• Support for Increasing Low Wage Workers’ Compensation: The Role of Fixed-Growth Mindsets about Intelligence Journal of Experimental Psychology, forthcoming
• Reconciling Female Agentic Advantage and Disadvantage with the CADDIS Measure of Agency Journal of Applied Psychology, 2022
• Exploring Perceptions of Disadvantage and Success as Interwoven Antecedents of White Privilege Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2022

Jessica Paek - Management & Organizations

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• Tying the Value of Goals to Social Class Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2023
• The Andrew Carnegie Effect: Legacy motives increase the intergenerational allocation of wealth to collective causes Social Psychological and Personality Science, forthcoming

Rebecca Ponce de Leon  - Management & Organizations

• “Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Non-Prototypicality of Black Women Academy of Management Journal, 2022
• “They’re Everywhere!”: Symbolically Threatening Groups Seem More Pervasive than Non-Threatening Groups Psychological Science, 2022
• Double Jeopardy or Intersectional Invisibility? Reconciling (Seemingly) Opposing Perspectives Research on Social Issues in Management: The Future of Scholarship on Race in Organizations, forthcoming
• Ironic Egalitarianism: When Hierarchy-Attenuating Motives Increase Hierarchy-Enhancing Beliefs Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2021

Sara Wingrove  - Management & Organizations

• Interpersonal Consequences of Conveying Goal Ambition Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, forthcoming
• Scientific Skepticism and Inequality: Political and Ideological Roots Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2020

Rodrigo Dias  - Marketing

• Spending and Happiness: The Role of Perceived Financial Constraints Journal of Consumer Research, 2022
• Aha over Haha: Brands Benefit More from Being Clever than from Being Funny Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2022

Holly Howe  - Marketing

• Aha vs. Haha: Brand Benefit More from Being Clever than from Being Funny Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2022
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• The Shifting Perspectives Study Protocol: Cognitive Remediation Therapy as an Adjunctive Treatment to Family Based Treatment for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa Contemporary Clinical Trials, 2021
• Anger Damns the Innocent: The Paradox of Anger in False Accusations of Wrongdoing Psychological Science, 2021

Nah Lee  - Marketing

• Vertical versus Horizontal Variance in Online Reviews and Their Impact on Demand Journal of Marketing Research, accepted

Demilade Oba  - Marketing

• How communication mediums shape the message Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2023

Siddharth Prusty  - Marketing

• Robust Importance Weighting for Covariate Shift Proceedings of the Twenty Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2020

Jacqueline Rifkin  - Marketing

• Penny for Your Preferences: Leveraging Self-Expression to Encourage Small Prosocial Gifts Journal of Marketing, 2020
• How Nonconsumption Can Turn Ordinary Items into Perceived Treasures Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2021

Kelley Gullo Wight  - Marketing

• Social Relationships and Consumer Behavior  APA Handbook of Consumer Psychology, 2022
• Secret Consumer Behaviors in Close Relationships Journal of Consumer Psychology, forthcoming

Lingrui Zhou  - Marketing

• Befriending the Enemy: The Effects of Observing Brand-to-Brand Praise on Consumer Evaluations and Choices Journal of Marketing, 2022
• Better to Decide Together: Shared Consumer Decision Making, Power, and Relationship Satisfaction Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2021

Yuan-Mao Kao  - Operations Management

• Impact of Information Asymmetry and Limited Production Capacity on Business Interruption Insurance Management Science, 2022

Yuexing Li  - Operations Management

• Data-driven Dynamic Pricing and Ordering with Perishable Inventory in a Changing Environment Management Science, 2022

Chen-An Lin  - Operations Management

• Wait Time–Based Pricing for Queues with Customer-Chosen Service Times Management Science, 2022

Ali Kaan Tuna  - Operations Management

• Sustainability Implications of Supply Chain Responsiveness Research Policy, 2022

Divya Sebastian  - Strategy

• Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage By Ashish Arora, Wesley M Cohen, and Honggi Lee Research Policy, 2023

Lia Sheer  - Strategy

• Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the Two Worlds of Scientific Discovery and Invention within the Firm Research Policy, 2022
• Knowledge Spillovers and Corporate Investment in Scientific Research American Economic Review, 2021
•  Matching Patents to Compustat Firms, 1980-2015: Dynamic Reassignment, Name Changes, and Ownership Structures Research Policy, 2021
• FARS Midyear Meeting Outstanding Reviewer Award 2022
• EAR Conference Best Discussant Award 2021

Matthew Kubic  - Accounting

• The Fuqua School of Business' Best Dissertation Award 2019-2020

Ayoub Amil  - Decision Sciences

• RMP Jeff McGill Student Paper Prize (2022), Finalist  - Multi-Item Order Fulfillment Revisited: LP Formulation and Prophet Inequality
• INFORMS M&SOM Student Paper Award (2023), Second Place
• The Fuqua School of Business' Best Dissertation Award 2022-2023
• INFORMS 2022, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, Finalist

Taha Ahsin  - Finance

• MFA Doctoral Symposium (2022), Finalist
• SFA Doctoral Student Paper Runners-Up Award (2022)

Jing Huang  - Finance

• European Finance Association Best Conference Paper Prize 2021 for  Open Banking: Credit Market Competition when Borrowers Own the Data
• Western Finance Association Best Paper in FinTech 2022, for "Fintech Expansion"

YoungJun Song  - Finance

• Most Influential Faculty Award
• Selected for AOM Best Paper Proceedings (top 10% of accepted papers)
• Lepage Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Faculty Award
• Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Outstanding Dissertation Award 2020

Jessica Paek  - Management & Organizations

• Lim Kim San Fellowship at Singapore Management University 2022
• Kenan Institute for Ethics Graduate Fellowship 2021–2022
• Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper Award, Academy of Management Meeting, Conflict Management Division 2021
• Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity Graduate Student Scholarship 2021
• The Fuqua School of Business' Best Dissertation Award 2021-2022
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Advancing Research and Creativity Grant 2022
• Winner, INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition 2021

Jessica Reif  - Management & Organizations

• Teaching on Purpose Fellowship, Kenan Institute for Ethics (2024)
• Best Student Poster Award, Honorable Mention - Society for Judgment and Decision Making (2022)
• AMA CBSig Rising Star Award (2023)
• AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow
• AMA CBSig Rising Star Award
• AMA Mathew Joseph Emerging Scholar Award
• SCP 2023 Best Competitive Paper Finalist
• Co-Principal Investigator, The Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business Research Grant 2022
• Best Talk Award 2022, Society for Consumer Psychology Conference (Interpersonal Relations & Group Processes Track)
• Early Career Faculty Award 2021, University of Missouri-Kansas City Emeritus College
• AMA Sheth Consortium Fellow 2020
• Society of Consumer Psychology, Best Poster Award - Beyond Persuasion: Developing a Framework of Communication Patterns in Joint Decision-Making

Chenghuai Li  - Operations Management

• Winner, Best Paper Competition 2022, Digital Supply Chain and Supplier Diversity Conference
• INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Competition, Winner 2020 - Data-driven Clustering and Feature-based Retail Electricity Pricing with Smart Meters
• College of Sustainable Operations Student Paper Award, Honorable Mention 2021 - Wait Time Based Pricing for Queues with Customer-Chosen Service Times
• Recipient of the Duke India Initiative Grant ($2020)
• Duke Graduate School Bass Instructional Fellow
• The Fuqua School of Business' Best Dissertation Award 2020-2021

What areas of study do you offer?

We have study concentrations in the following areas: Accounting, Decision Sciences, Finance, Marketing, Management and Organizations, Operations Management and Strategy.

Could you evaluate my chances of admissions to the program?

Please be advised, we cannot offer assessment of candidacy to applicants or provide feedback to re-applicants. The admission decision is made by faculty in each area and awarded on a competitive basis, after evaluating all applications. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.

Do you have online or part time options for your degree program?

No, online or part time options are not available for our doctoral program.

Do you have to be in residence during the program?

Students are required to be in residence during their coursework (2-3 years) and are highly encouraged to remain in residence for the remainder of the program. On average, students complete the program in 5 years.

I have a graduate degree. Could I be exempt from the GRE/GMAT test requirement?

The GMAT or GRE is required for admission to the Business Administration Program. The GMAT or GRE cannot be waived under any circumstance.

Is there a minimum score for GMAT or GRE?

There is no minimum score requirement, although successful applicants tend to have competitive scores.

If I have an MBA degree, will that make a difference?

Some students have an MBA or another master's degree before entering the program. However, an MBA or another master's degree is not required for admissions.

Is work experience required?

No, it is not required.

Are interviews required as part of the admissions process?

No, they are not required, although some areas may choose to conduct preliminary interviews prior to final admission decisions.

How many recommendation letters are required?

Three recommendation letters are required.

What financial assistance is available for doctoral students?

Fuqua offers fellowships to all doctoral students, including international students. This fellowship pays for tuition, a competitive stipend for living expenses, and single person health fees. The fellowship is renewable for up to five years of doctoral education, conditional on good academic standing in the program. Additional funding in the form of research and teaching assistantships is also available to PhD students. For information about financial aid, please see  https://gradschool.duke.edu/financial-support .

Your admission to the PhD program will include stipends, tuition and registration, and health fees for up to ten semesters, provided you are making satisfactory progress in the program.  Other forms of financial assistance include:

• Desktop computer
• Support for approved academic travel
• Assistance in seeking funding from the Graduate School and outside sources

Teaching and research assistantships are available for supplementary funding.  For additional information about financial aid, please see  https://gradschool.duke.edu/financial-support .

Can I visit the Fuqua School of Business?

The PhD office is unable to offer school tours or individual meetings with Fuqua faculty before the pre-admit season begins. Contacting faculty prior to application submission is not necessary. Due to the volume of inquiries, faculty members regret that they are unable to respond to all inquiries. Prospective students are encouraged to learn about  faculty research .

Do you have a resource guide for Duke and the greater Durham area?

Duke Graduate School and the Emerging Leaders Institute  have surveyed current students and created  The Professional's Guide to Duke and Durham  to answer common questions for incoming students.

Duke's Graduate School

The answers to the following frequently asked questions can be found at the  Duke's Graduate School  general webpage:

• How do I apply to the PhD Program?
• Do I need to provide TOEFLs or IELTS scores?
• What is the minimum ESL-related score?
• If I have an admissions question, who do I contact?
• How much is the application fee?
• Are official documents required during the application review process?
• My transcript is not in English, do I need to provide a translation?
• What if I retake the GRE or GMAT, which score is considered?
• How can I check the status of my application?

Start your application to one of our PhD programs now.

Accounting * Decision Sciences * Finance * Management and Organizations * Marketing * Operations Management * Strategy

PhD Program in Business Administration

Duke university’s fuqua school of business.

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Fields of Study

Get a solid foundation in the tools of accounting research.

Decision Sciences

Help organizations make better decisions.

Push the frontiers of research in financial economics.

Management and Organizations

Understand organizations from multiple perspectives.

Among the most published and cited marketing faculties in the world.

Operations Management

Think conceptually, carefully and creatively about operations issues.

Innovation, entrepreneurship, organizations, and business and public policy.

The Carlson PhD in Business Administration is a research-based program designed to train students to contribute to scientific discovery in one of seven concentrations . Our program emphasizes engaged scholarship in which our students consider ways to both advance science and inform important applied and societal questions.

As a PhD student at Carlson School of Management, you'll be part of a vibrant community of scholars and professionals, where diversity is celebrated and collaboration is encouraged. With access to top-notch resources and nationally-ranked programs in computer science, economics, applied economics, sociology, and psychology at the University of Minnesota, you'll have the opportunity to develop expertise in your field and conduct cutting-edge research. Situated in the heart of the Twin Cities, with its thriving metropolitan community and headquarters for 16 Fortune 500 companies, Carlson provides a dynamic and stimulating environment for your academic and personal growth.

The Carlson School Advantage

Experience The Carlson School Advantage in our distinguished PhD program.

areas of concentration to focus your studies

U.S. public university business faculty for intellectual contributions

current students

Message from the Director

The Carlson School’s PhD program in business administration prepares students for careers as faculty members at universities worldwide and for research positions in the industry. Students gain experience conducting basic and applied research, skills for continued professional and scholarship growth, and grounding in the fundamentals of good teaching. Graduates attend faculty positions at top research institutions prepared to teach and mentor future business leaders. Having gained mastery of a discipline within business administration, they have the tools to contribute to the field’s future development. Students in our program have the opportunity to develop close collaborations with world-renowned faculty across seven disciplines. Our faculty are well-known scholars who regularly publish in top journals, have won distinguished academic awards, are editors of leading journals, and receive prestigious grants. We encourage a collaborative, supportive environment among students who bring diverse perspectives, outstanding academic records, and varied work experience.

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