The School of Business encourages and fosters a rich research-oriented environment for faculty and doctoral candidates. Students can choose from a variety of topics reflecting the varied research interests of our faculty. The Ph.D. Program is intended to prepare students to conduct original research; i.e., to explain phenomena previously not well understood and then to test proposed explanations empirically.
Accounting
- Accounting standards-setting
- Analyst forecasts
- Auditing
- Corporate financial reporting issues
- Initial Public offerings
- Internal control
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Securities regulation in international capital markets
- Taxes and business decisions
- Tax policy
Finance
- Asset pricing models
- Corporate management behavior
- Risk management
- Corporate governance
- Financial distress and default
- Credit risk
- International finance
- Macro finance
- Real options
- Institutional investors
- Mutual funds
- Hedge funds
- Market efficiency
- Cost of capital
- Bank competition
- Culture and finance
- Environmental impacts on real estate value
- Capital structure
- Dividend policy
- Insurance markets
- Healthcare finance
Management
- Teams in organizations
- Empowerment and empowering leadership
- Social networks
- Multi-level theory
- Strategic entrepreneurship
- Corporate alliance and networks
- Learning process
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Creativity and innovation
- Strategic human resource management
- International expansion
- Long-term decision making
Marketing
- Big data anlytics, Branding in developed and emerging markets
- Cross-cultural research
- Cognitive computing applications
- Consumer search and decision making
- Consumer social networks and social media
- Creativity, identity and emotions
- Digital marketing and analytics
- Digital strategies for customer relationship management
- E-commerce and online retailing
- Global citizenship and consumer behavior
- International marketing
- Interpersonal social networks and social capital
- Marketing-finance interface
- Mobile and digital marketing
- Sales management and innovation
- Product design
- Social interaction and peer effects
- Quality and innovation
Operations & Information Management
- Auction theory and applications
- Database design and security
- Database management
- Distributed computing and client/server technology
- Electronic commerce
- Economics of information and information systems
- Healthcare information systems
- Management of technology
- Manufacturing systems, planning and strategy
- Supply chain management
- Telecommunication and network modeling and analysis
- Applications of operations research and other optimization techniques to areas such as product design, production scheduling, and facility location