Management Ph.D.
Shaping the World of Enterprise
The Ph.D. program in Management prepares students to positively impact the academic profession and the practice of management through excellence in research, teaching, and service.
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Leading Management Thought
Our faculty publish in the most prestigious academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. Members serve on the editorial boards of these journals, and some have editorial leadership positions. A unique strength of the department is its breadth of expertise.
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Mentorship and Practice
Students are prepared to combine rigorous theories with robust research methodologies to advance current thinking about management issues facing organizations, including entrepreneurial ventures and established companies. A distinctive feature of the program is the many opportunities it offers Ph.D. students to learn directly from the department’s world-class faculty.
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The World Needs You
The demand for skilled educators is strong, and doctoral graduates in management from the University of Texas at Austin have enjoyed considerable placement success over the years. If you aspire to a career as a management educator and researcher, a doctoral degree from Texas McCombs will give you a strong foundation for success.
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Application Deadline
The application deadline for the Management Doctoral Program is December 15th.
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Areas of Specialization

Management research frequently builds on contributions of diverse disciplines from psychology, economics, and sociology to communications, political science, and anthropology. Through research collaborations with our faculty, students have the opportunity to expand their understanding of management and build knowledge in related disciplines.

Organization Science

Encompasses a wide variety of topics at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. Current faculty research interests include but are not limited to:

  • Ethical decision making, ethical dilemmas in organizations
  • Culture and community in groups and organizations
  • Emotions, identity, and creativity
  • Organizational identification processes
  • Cultures in organizations and work/family issues
  • Organizational adaptability and learning
  • Virtual communities

Strategic Management

Strategy research focuses primarily on firm conduct and firm performance. It comprises both theories explaining reasons that some firms achieve sustainable superior performance and theories that focus on firm boundaries and firm growth. Significant areas of faculty research currently include:

  • Corporate strategy, mergers, acquisitions, and alliances
  • Competitive strategy
  • Technology strategy and innovation
  • Technology entrepreneurship
  • Organizational learning and adaptation
  • Business platforms and ecosystems
  • Corporate governance and strategic leadership

Diverse Topics

The diversity of rich topics pursued in both the Organization Science and the Strategic Management areas are also reflected in a wide range of methodologies, ranging from lab experiments, to field surveys, to qualitative analysis of evidence from the field, to the latest advances in econometric analysis of large-scale quantitative datasets, to quasi field experiments. 

Multiple Methods

Students in the program have the opportunity to develop deep expertise in a variety of research methods. Students take several research methods courses taught by management faculty and are strongly encouraged to supplement their training with advanced methods courses in economics, psychology, and sociology.

Faculty Collaboration

Our program emphasizes early and continued involvement in collaborative research projects with faculty, which is essential for students to develop mastery in research methodologies.
Preparation and Qualifications
The Texas McCombs Management doctoral program assumes that students have taken advanced courses to establish a reasonable mathematics, statistics, and economics background. Adequate computer programming skills are necessary for coursework. Prospective applicants are required to hold a four-year bachelor's degree (a formal degree in the area of study is not required) or equivalent before starting
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Career Destinations

The primary goal of the Texas McCombs Ph.D. program is to prepare students for exceptional academic careers. Over the last five years, McCombs Management Ph.D. alumni have excelled at top institutions globally.

Recent Graduate Placements

2020

Sae Lee – China Europe International Business School

Andrea C. Marquez – University of Texas at San Antonio

2019

Benjamin Dow – Washington University

Natalie Longmire – Tulane University

Julie Sharek – University of Central Florida

Santosh Srinivas – HEC Paris

Wei Yang – George Mason University

2018

Suho Han – Syracuse University

Niranjan Janardhanan – London School of Economics

Seung-Hwan Jeong – Georgia State University

Yurianna Kimmons – Oklahoma State University

2016

Christina Kyprianou – Clemson University

Students and Job Market Candidates

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Bai, Yunxiang

Banga, Meenal

Chung, Jong Sig

Datta, Arun*

Lee, Min Ju

Oladimeji, Temitope

Pyun, Eugene*

Rhee, Junyeon

Sachdeva, Puneet

Shardlow, Ed*

Sohn, Wonbin*

Strassman, Jamie

Wubneh, Kinde

Yamamoto, Kendall

Are You Ready to Change the World?
The Texas McCombs Doctoral Program is seeking individuals who are interested in transforming the global marketplace. Are you one of these future thought leaders?
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