Spring 2027

Doctoral Research Seminar in Business Strategy

Doctoral seminar exploring drivers of performance heterogeneity among firms through integrative theory and empirical evidence from economics, sociology, psychology, and management.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.79 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.67 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explore foundational concepts and theories in strategic management to build a strong knowledge of seminal research.

  • Develop expertise in emerging phenomena and streams in strategic management research to link and extend seminal theories to contemporary phenomena.

  • Evaluate and creatively integrate research in strategic management to identify connections between ideas, gaps, and future directions for scholarship.

  • Formulate new research questions, conceptual frameworks, or empirical designs that might serve as starting points for publishable research papers.

  • Utilize various methodological approaches in strategic management research to enable the comprehension, design, and execution of reliable and robust empirical studies.

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Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program

    • Graduate/professional standing
    • declared in graduate Business Exchange program
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  • Any of
    • Graduate/professional standing
    • declared in graduate Business Exchange program

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.79 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.67 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Drivers of performance heterogeneity among firms
  • Integrative theory and empirical evidence from economics, sociology, psychology, and management
  • Anatomy of scholarly contributions and conducting strategy research

Skills

  • Design and execute reliable and robust empirical studies using various methodological approaches.
  • Formulate new research questions, conceptual frameworks, or empirical designs for publishable research papers.

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