PhD Academics

CREATE A VISION FOR TOMORROW

CHALLENGE EVERYTHING

This is a small, intellectually intense PhD program that balances collaboration with competitiveness and challenge with support. You’ll take eight courses a year and tackle research projects, colloquia, seminars, and other area-specific academic activities like Teaching Assistant Training. In the end, you’ll have the tools you need to make an impact in any business school environment.
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Research Excellence Combined with Classroom Skills

We believe that hands-on research collaboration between students and faculty is critically important in the education of new scholars. Collaborative research helps students learn how to transform abstract theoretical questions into workable projects that are publishable in major journals. Just as importantly, it is through collaborative research with experienced members of their field that students learn the research norms and values that will guide them through the program and later in their academic careers. Because research excellence is only one part of success, we place an equal emphasis on improving your skills in the classroom.
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Academic Areas

Choose from one of our five academic areas to home in on your area of expertise and go deep.

The PhD in Accounting takes you deep into the production and use of information through the lens of theories adapted from the social sciences, especially economics and psychology. You will focus on microeconomics, econometrics, statistics, and doctoral seminars in accounting.

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Research Resources that Go Beyond

  • Top 25 Library in the Nation

    The Emory University Library system has more than 2.8 million volumes and 200 cross-disciplinary electronic resources.
  • Your Own Research Budget

    You’ll have your own established research support budget for data collection, books, travel, and whatever else your research requires.
  • Computing and Database Support

    The Information Systems & Operations Management department offers data management, computation, and programming to support your research.

Research Starts with Relationships

Throughout the PhD program, students will have research opportunities with multiple faculty. Collaborative research helps students learn how to transform abstract theoretical questions into publishable work. After the first year, PhD candidates will be paired with a faculty member with similar research interests as a teaching or research assistant.
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Teaching to Be the Best Educator

We take teaching seriously. Building a student's skills in classroom instruction is an integral part of the doctoral program. The Laney Graduate School's Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity is a multilevel educational and action learning sequence that prepares doctoral students for the rigors of teaching in a college or university environment.
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Goizueta Experts

  • Race and Gender in the Workplace

    Hall’s research focuses on the influence of race, gender, and class-based biases on interactions within the workplace. In 2016, she was honored as one of the “The World’s Best 40 Under 40 Business Professors” in Poets & Quants.
    Meet O&M Faculty
  • An Accounting Icon

    Dichev’s research has garnered some of the highest research awards in Accounting – including the Notable Contributions to Account Literature Award (twice) and the Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award.
    Meed Accounting Faculty
  • Investing in the Future

    Shanken’s primary research is in the investment/capital markets side of finance with emphasis on the application of sophisticated econometric methods. His teaching interests include capital budgeting, managerial finance, and investment management.
    Meet Finance Faculty
  • Harnessing the Power of Information

    An information systems expert, Bharadwaj brings a wide range of development and executive training experience to the classroom. Her research focuses on the organizational impacts of information technology, as well as internet commerce.
    Meet ISOM Faculty
  • Brave Ideas for a New World

    An operations management expert, Chan focuses on new product development, design management, operational innovation, service management, and empirical operations.
    Meet ISOM Faculty
  • Leveraging the Customer Relationship

    Lewis focuses on the dynamic importance of the customer relationship, such as consumer response to loyalty programs, methods for customer valuation, and dynamic pricing.
    Meet Marketing Faculty