Doctorado Ph.D. Program in Management

A full time program designed to educate outstanding individuals to become international scholars with a multicultural view of management.

The PhD Program equips a new generation of academics and researches with cornerstones in methodology as well as in Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Marketing, Accounting. Finance and Operations, always from the point of view of research. The program takes participants beyond these essential foundations to build a career in Academia.

Welcome to the IE PhD Program in Management, designed to educate outstanding individuals to become international scholars with a multicultural view of management. While working on your doctoral studies you will have the unique chance to live in one of the most exciting and multicultural cities in the world, as well as learning a useful business language, Spanish.

Program Structure:
The main goal of the PhD Program is to educate outstanding individuals to become international scholars in the general field of management. We expect our graduates to undertake careers in academia as world-class researchers and professors, as well as becoming high-profile leaders in industry and the public sector. The PhD program takes four years and is divided in two modules. First and second year are devoted to courses to acquire the basic disciplines of Management Research, while the third and the fourth year will cover the research period where you will develop your PhD Thesis. The enrollment in the PhD Program gives you the possibility of getting a University Research Methodology in Management Science Official Degree, worth 60 ECTS, adapted to the Higher Education Area in accordance with the Bologna Process.

Program Goals and Skills
We expect our graduates to undertake careers in academia as world-class researchers and professors. The skills that students acquire include:

• The vision to recognize important and unexplored business issues.
• A capacity to develop research questions.
• The ability to use a variety of research methods to collect, analyze and present data.
• The organization skills required to follow process of research from the conceptualization of a research question to the recommendations for the development of better management practices.
• An ethical attitude when designing and conducting research.
• The networking skills required to work in collaboration with the business community.
• The writing skills required to present the new ideas and body of knowledge in a coherent way following the standards of major management journals.