University of Victoria

PhD in International Management and Organization at the Sardul S. Gill Graduate School at the University of Victoria's Peter B. Gustavson School of Business was created to develop "candidates with an integrated perspective on management to address complex global issues." The program offers students unique opportunities to participate in an international exchange or industry practicum experience, and emphasizes the importance of adequate teacher training to prepare future business school faculty.

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2012

City University of Hong Kong and Fudan University, College of Business and School of Management, Hong Kong SAR and Shanghai, China
The City University of Hong Kong and Fudan University DBA Program is a new and highly innovative joint doctoral program, aimed at senior Chinese executives who seek to resolve the often complex and profound problems encountered in their own business practices and observations, through rigorous academic research.

University of St. Gallen, School of Management, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Finding a climate for change in the 2004–2007 timeframe as the Bologna process was implemented and university-wide reforms were underway, the University of St. Gallen (HSG) instituted several revisions to its PhD Program in Management (PMA). For influence, HSG observed some of the doctoral programs delivered at some of its fellow CEMS Alliance schools, and took into strong consideration the post Bologna political discussions at the Swiss and the European levels. Today's format, unique among many other doctoral programs, offers students a standard, part-time track and an expanded, full-time track based on their career aspirations. The PMA is currently the University's largest doctoral program, with six specializations.

2011

Durham University, Durham Business School, Durham, United Kingdom
At the Durham Business School, cultivating a supportive and engaged research community among doctoral students and faculty has helped make the PhD in Management Program highly recognized around the world, in addition to being a positive and fruitful experience for its students. Doctoral candidates can expect a rigorous program, but with the support of a dual supervisor team, as well as other opportunities to develop their research skills, such as completing the University's Doctoral Training Program.

Georgia State University, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The Executive Doctorate in Business at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business takes executive education to the next level, with a practical research-based degree for experienced businesspeople, embedded in a professional environment, who want to learn to apply research methodology to problems facing that environment.

Universidad de los Andes, School of Management, Bogotá, Colombia
The Universidad de los Andes PhD in Management program was initiated in 2007 as a result of the dedication of a group of Colombian professors hoping to create a doctoral program in management in Colombia that would contribute to the development of doctoral faculty in the country and expand its limited academic community. The full time program offers two areas of concentration and is designed for individuals who have a clear goal to develop an academic career focused on teaching and research, especially those interested in understanding the management reality of the country.

2010

Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Now in its 16th year of operation, the Tulane Latin American Faculty Development PhD Program is designed to offer experienced, working faculty in Latin American business schools the opportunity to advance their careers with doctoral-level research degree training, while retaining their teaching positions. The Freeman School of Business has partnered with a number of Latin American business schools to enhance these teaching faculty and their home institutions.

Montreal Joint Doctoral Program, Concordia University, HEC Montréal, McGill University, Université du Québec á Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
For the past 34 years, Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business, HEC Montréal (affiliated with the Université de Montréal), McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management, and the School of Management (ESG) of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), have combined their educational efforts to deliver the Montréal Joint Doctoral Program, a collaborative PhD in business administration that is more expansive and flexible than any one of the participating schools could offer alone.

Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management, Provo, Utah, USA
The Marriott School of Management’s Master of Accountancy (MAcc) program began in 1994 and offers a specialized PhD Prep Track, which is designed to prepare graduates from the MAcc program for doctoral studies elsewhere. Douglas Prawitt, founding coordinator of the program, notes that all six of the original formal cohort graduated in 2000 and went on to top doctoral programs.