With warm wishes, welcome! Our Ph.D. program in Management offers cutting edge training in basic and applied research. If you are condering a career in academia, we offer an interdisciplinary program with faculty members engaged in research in many management areas including organizational behavior, strategic management, human resources management, entrepreneurship, leadership, careers, business ethics, judgment and decision making, behavioral economics, behavioral finance and game theory. I encourage you to take a look at our faculty webpages to more fully investigate our research interests. If a career teaching and inspiring the next generation of business students and publishing in premier journals drives you, I encourage you to get in touch and apply.
Dan Jones
Director of Ph.D. in Business Administration, Management Program
The dynamic and growing College of Business offers a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Management), with cutting-edge management training in theoretical foundations and quantitative methods in basic and applied research. The program offers concentrations in organizational behavior, strategy, entrepreneurship, and behavioral decision making. The program also emphasizes interdisciplinary research and encourages collaborations with other disciplines such as economics, psychology, sociology and neuroscience.
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV is Nevada’s land-grant institution and currently enrolls more than 22,000 students. As of 2019, UNR was chosen as one of just 130 universities to receive the classification as an R1 institution — “very high research activity” — by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. This designation is reserved for doctoral-granting universities with exceptional levels of research activity. In 2020, the University also reached the prestigious Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, becoming one of only 119 institutions in the country so honored. These designations indicate that the Â鶹´«Ã½AV is not only a great place to pursue a research career, but also presents opportunities to connect with local organizations and community members in research endeavors and outreach.
The AACSB-accredited the Â鶹´«Ã½AV College of Business has over 3,000 undergraduate majors and 380 graduate and MBA students. The College of Business is consistently recognized among the best by the Princeton Review and U.S. News and World Reports. The College maintains a collegial and collaborative work environment and is one of the strongest units at the University. Within the College of Business, the Management Department houses a multidisciplinary faculty in areas such as human resource management, organizational behavior, judgment and decision making, strategy, and entrepreneurship.
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Business Administration Ph.D. Student Handbook
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Business Administration Ph.D. Student Handbook
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