If faculty know of any exceptional students that might be interested, please pass along this message and ask them to join us for one of our
two virtual open houses on Monday, December 12th at 10am (10.00) Eastern Standard Time or Tuesday, December 13th, at 9pm (21.00) Eastern Standard Time.
Please email Prof. Joe Labianca (glabianca@umass.edu) for the link and to register for the events.Seeking New Ph.D. Students in Management
Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst – the flagship campus of the UMass system Are you passionately curious about how organizations operate and how they can reshape our world? Our Ph.D. in
Management prepares you for a rewarding and impactful career as a management scholar and professor engaged in research, teaching, and consulting.
We are recruiting exceptional students for our Ph.D. program in Management, with courses beginning in Fall 2023. We are evaluating applications on a rolling basis; the final application deadline is January 20, 2023.
What Distinguishes Our Program?
• World-class faculty engaged in leading-edge scholarship with many years of proven ability to develop doctoral students in a supportive environment and help them establish great, meaningful careers
• Full-time, year-round, on-campus program with exceptional levels of interaction with your faculty mentors employing a team-on-individual-student mentoring approach
• An innovative new, contemporary curriculum for all Management Ph.D. students employing a mix of courses and modules and a choice between one of two concentration tracks, allowing you to pursue your passion for knowledge, while still being able to work with faculty involved in a diverse set of intra-organizational, inter-organizational, and societal topics:
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Organization Studies (research topics and courses: examining diverse workplaces, organization and management roles in promoting social and environmental justice, leading organizations, exploring conflict and emotions in organizations, organizational ethics, designing better organizations using formal and informal structure; social network analysis)
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Strategic Management (research topics and courses: innovation, human capital resources, knowledge management, entrepreneurship, sustainability, emerging economies, decision-making, corporate governance, competitive advantage, international management)
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Five years of guaranteed stipend and tuition waiver funding, allowing you sufficient time to complete your dissertation and obtain your dream job. Students are also very well-resourced for their travel and research expenses.
FacultyOur faculty focuses on developing positive mentoring relationships with each student and inviting them into a collaborative scholarly community. Students engage intensively in collaborative projects with faculty members beginning in their first year in order to develop well-rounded research, teaching, and consulting skills.
Our faculty have placed former students at some of the world's best universities. Their research has been published in the management field's top scholarly journals, has won numerous awards, and has been used by a wide variety of organizations to make important decisions. They serve on the editorial boards and as editors of the best academic journals and play influential leadership roles in various divisions of the Academy of Management.
Management Faculty Profiles:Michael Blomfield (Ph.D., London Bus Schl) – innovation; corporate investment in science
Marta B. Calás (Ph.D., UMass Amherst) – critical organizational analyses; transnational mgmt.
Ina Ganguli (Ph.D., Harvard) – social entrepreneurship; scientific knowledge production
Emily Heaphy (Ph.D., U Michigan) – the changing nature of work relationships; emotions
Charles J. Johnson (JD, U Virginia Law School) – entrepreneurship center associate director
Jennifer Kish-Gephart (Ph.D., Penn State) – behavioral ethics; social class; gender; inequality
Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca (Ph.D., Penn State) – managing conflict; social networks; org design
Mzamo Mangaliso (Ph.D., UMass Amherst) – behavioral strategy; emerging markets; uncertainty
Charles C. Manz (Ph.D., Penn State) – self-leadership; empowering leadership; shared leadership
Jennifer Merton (JD, UConn Law) – small business planning & succession; ethics; environmental law
Bogdan Prokopovych (Ph.D., U Rhode Island) – sustainability; social entrepreneurship
Feng Qiu (Ph.D., U Oregon) – ethics, whistleblowing, helping behaviors, emotions
Orlando Richard (Ph.D., U Kentucky) – managing diversity; organizational justice; leadership
Anurag Sharma (Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill) – strategy & financial markets, MNEs, emerging economies
Bruce Skaggs (Ph.D., Penn State) – organizational knowledge creation & coordination; service firms
Gregory Thomas (MBA, Clark Atlanta) – entrepreneurship; innovation; strategic planning
Cristina Vlas (Ph.D., UTexas at Dallas) – organizational learning; patenting; diversity; CEO personality
... and joining us in Fall 2023:
Temitope S. Oladimeji (Ph.D., UTexas at Austin) – entrepreneurial strategy & managerial cognition
About AmherstUMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, sits on nearly 1,450 acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The Town of Amherst gracefully combines colonial charm with the vigor of one of New England's major educational centers, the Five College Consortium: Smith, Hampshire, Amherst, and Mount Holyoke Colleges and The University of Massachusetts Amherst. This area of Western Massachusetts offers an exhilarating degree of social, cultural and recreational diversity.
If you are interested in our program, please contact the Management Ph.D. Program Coordinator, Prof. Joe (Giuseppe) Labianca5, for more information.Quick links
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