PROPOSAL FOR A DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN MANAGEMENT

The first Ph.D degree at Rice University was awarded in 1918 (i.e., 6 years after

the founding of the university) in Mathematics. Since then doctoral programs on campus

have steadily increased to include 29 fields of study, and are offered at 6 of the 7 schools

at Rice, with some fields combining study in more than one school. In 2004, 126

doctorates were granted at Rice. The only school at Rice that does not currently offer

doctoral degrees is the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management.1 This proposal

makes a case for setting up a doctoral program at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of

Management.

1. Why a Doctoral Degree in Management?

Currently, 114 universities in the US, and 168 Universities around the world,

offer doctoral degrees in Management/Business. Except Dartmouth, every business

school in the Business Week Top-30 list has a doctoral program in place.2 Even more

importantly, among the top 25 research universities (based on NSF rankings, Gorman

rankings etc.), UC-San Diego and Johns Hopkins are the only Universities that have a

business school but do not have a doctoral program in Management.3 This makes it

1 However, 2 Ph.D’s in Accounting have been awarded from the Jones School, one to N. Sivakumar in 1987, and another to Emel Kahya in 1989, both under the thesis directorship of Philip W. Bell, with two current Jones School faculty serving on the thesis committees, i.e., Bala G. Dharan in the former case, and Edward Williams in the latter case. 2 One of the reasons that Dartmouth has not yet introduced a doctoral program is that it works out to be cost-prohibitive since Dartmouth does not have graduate programs in economics, psychology etc. and, therefore, has to staff the teaching resources for the doctoral program entirely from within the business school. This does not apply to Rice. 3 A reason for this is that UC-San Diego opened a business school only two years back, while Johns Hopkins opened a business school only this year. The top research universities that do not have business schools are Cal-Tech and Princeton.

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evident that having a doctoral program in Management is viewed as being an integral part

of being a top business school, particularly in top research universities. Notwithstanding

this observation, a landmark 2003 report titled, “Sustaining Scholarship in Business

Schools,” co-authored by members of the AACSB International Management Education

Task Force, identifies an emerging doctoral faculty shortage in business as the most

pressing issue facing management education. The report concludes that by 2013, the

expected shortage of business Ph.D’s will reach 2419 (with the current shortage being

1142). For example, if in 2013 there is a need for 29,000 business faculty, the number of

available business faculty will only be 26,581 (i.e., 2419 less than necessary). Many

business schools now end each hiring season with unfilled faculty positions. Thus, the

introduction of a doctoral program in Management at Rice University may be very

opportune in terms of meeting the increasing demand for doctoral candidates in the

faculty job market.

Introducing a doctoral program will also boost the national reputation of the Jones

School when its doctoral graduates are placed in universities around the world. The

research activities of doctoral students – younger in age and fresher in their thinking --

will significantly improve the research culture of the business school. The opportunity to

work with doctoral students will make it easier to recruit top-quality research faculty.4 A

vibrant doctoral program will increase faculty job satisfaction and, therefore, improve

faculty retention. The existence of a (good) doctoral program will positively impact the

rankings of our MBA programs, both directly – for example, one component that

contributes to the composite quality score given to each business school in the Financial

4 Currently, the absence of a doctoral program places a serious burden on the Jones School’s efforts at successfully recruiting strong faculty from other schools. A number of job candidates have turned away from seriously considering the Jones School as a prospective employer on account of this absence.

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Times survey is the number of Ph.D. graduates – and indirectly – by improving the

research reputation of the business school as a whole.

2. Ph.D in Management at Rice University

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degree in Management, as in other disciplines,

is a research degree.5 It is designed to prepare candidates for careers in research and

teaching at academic institutions. The requirements of the proposed doctoral program are

those described in the Rice University General Announcements catalog. The doctoral

degree will be called a Ph.D in Management.

The doctoral program in Management is as integral part of Dean Bill Glick’s

vision and strategic plan to make the Jones School a world class business school with

high quality programs at multiple levels, as well as a school known for thought leadership

and diversity, with multiple vibrant communities clustered around different programs.

The Jones School has most recently set up a Professional MBA (PMBA) program to

complement its traditional MBA and the Executive MBA (EMBA) programs. This

PMBA program has started very successfully. The doctoral program is meant to provide

further momentum to the school’s growth moving forward. Developing top-quality

academic researchers and getting them placed in respected business schools as faculty

will significantly enhance the research reputation of the Jones School.

In starting a doctoral program in Management, the Jones School will introduce

Ph.D.-level courses that will be taught by Jones School faculty (see Section 7, as well as

5 Some business schools confer a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA). While the exact nature of the scope of the DBA varies by institution (for example, what Harvard Business School calls DBA is more akin to what most other business schools call Ph.D.), the DBA generally has a more applied focus. The Ph.D., on the other hand, trains students primarily to be business faculty and is, therefore, more academically rigorous.

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the Appendix, in this proposal). These courses will be of interest to doctoral students in

Economics, Psychology, Statistics etc. Having a strong doctoral program in the business

school will have positive spill-over effects in terms of how well doctoral programs in

Economics, Psychology, Statistics etc. are viewed by prospective students evaluating

these departments for their doctoral studies. The doctoral program in Management will

also provide a formal mechanism by which doctoral students in these other departments

can identify possible thesis topics in business-related areas (by interacting with business

school doctoral students), attend research seminars held in the business school etc.

3. Admission, Candidacy and Timeline

Doctoral study in Management will be open to a limited number of well-qualified

students with (at least) an undergraduate degree. The doctoral program will be supervised

by a set of faculty advisors, who are permanent members of the business school faculty

and specializing in various areas, e.g., Accounting, Finance etc. These area advisors, who

are part of the doctoral admissions committee, will also determine whether applicants

have enough preparation to enter the doctoral program in Management. After admission,

these area advisors will counsel new students on the curriculum in that area and how to

plan their course of study -- which would last 4 years or more -- and serve as advisors to

all the students in their respective areas throughout their course of study. An applicant

should include a completed application form, the application fee, transcript(s),

recommendations, as well as GMAT (or GRE) scores.

Candidacy marks a mid-point in the course of the doctoral program. Achieving

candidacy implies that a doctoral student has both completed required course-work and

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passed a written comprehensive exam, administered by the faculty within the business

school, to demonstrate his/her comprehensive grasp of the subject area. Consistent with

the requirements for Ph.D programs at Rice University, candidates receiving a Ph.D

degree in Management must successfully complete at least 90 semester hours -- including

semester hours counting towards dissertation research during the third year and beyond --

of advanced study and conclude an original investigation that is formalized in an

approved thesis.

Expected Timeline: Doctoral students are expected to be “in residence” throughout the

year. The following schedule is meant to be an example to illustrate the nature of doctoral

studies undertaken by students. The actual schedule will vary from one student to another

depending on the student’s prior background and research interests and the specific

requirements of the area faculty.

First Year: Complete course work during the Fall and Spring semesters (roughly 3 or 4

courses per semester)6 and work on a research project during summer with a faculty

member.

Second Year: Present a research paper in a research seminar, in front of business school

faculty, during the academic year. Complete course work during the Fall and Spring

6 While the student has the flexibility to tailor courses to his/her preferences, the student will be advised on what would constitute pertinent coursework by the area faculty advisor. The first-year courses will consist of some subset or intersection of “core” or basic doctoral courses taken by first-year doctoral students in departments such as economics, psychology etc.

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semesters (roughly 3 or 4 courses per semester)7 and take a comprehensive written exam

in the specialty area, administered by the faculty members of the respective area, during

summer.

Third Year: Take specialized courses as needed to develop the area of expertise. Begin

the dissertation proposal during the Fall semester. Reach candidacy by the end of the

Spring semester. Take a teaching development course from Communications faculty.

Fourth Year (and beyond): Finish and defend the dissertation.

4. Typical Doctoral Program in Management

An example program for a doctoral candidate, specializing in Marketing, is shown below.

Fall of Year 1

ECON 501 Microeconomic Theory I 5 credits Economics dept.

ECON 507 Mathematical Economics I 5 credits Economics dept.

ECON 510 Econometrics I 5 credits Economics dept.

MGMT 901 Pro-Seminar in Marketing-I 3 credits JGSM

7 The second-year courses will primarily consist of “elective” doctoral courses in departments such as economics, psychology etc. that provide the necessary “tools” to study research issues that the student has begun to focus on (in his/her summer research paper and beyond).

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Spring of Year 1

ECON 508 Microeconomic Theory II 5 credits Economics dept.

ECON 511 Econometrics II 5 credits Economics dept.

ECON 523 Dynamic Optimization 5 credits Economics dept.

MGMT 902 Pro-Seminar in Marketing-II 3 credits JGSM

Summer of Year 1

First Year Summer Paper

Fall of Year 2

ECON 514 Industrial Organization and Control 5 credits Economics dept.

ECON 515 Labor Economics 5 credits Economics dept.

STAT 541 Multivariate Analysis 3 credits Statistics dept.

MGMT 903 Econometric Models in Marketing 3 credits JGSM

Presentation of Summer Paper in Marketing Seminar

Spring of Year 2

STAT 552 Applied Stochastic Processes 3 credits Statistics dept.

STAT 622 Bayesian Data Analysis 3 credits Statistics dept.

STAT 640 Data Mining and Statistical Learning 3 credits Statistics dept.

MGMT 904 Game Theory Models in Marketing 3 credits JGSM

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Summer of Year 2

Comprehensive Exam

Fall of Year 3

Dissertation Research

Spring of Year 3

Dissertation Research

Reach Doctoral Candidacy

Summer of Year 3

Dissertation Research

Teaching Development Course

Fourth Year and Beyond

Dissertation Research

Final Dissertation Defence

5. Financial Aid

Doctoral students at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management may be

supported by fellowships or research assistantships from the Jones School.

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Rice Graduate Fellowships: Doctoral students with high academic records and strong

qualifications may receive support through Rice fellowships. In most cases, these

fellowships provide a stipend plus tuition for the 12-month academic period. The

business school will nominate particularly outstanding entering students for a Rice

Presidential Fellowship.

Research Assistantships: Research assistantships are available within the business school.

Admitted doctoral students not qualifying for Rice Graduate Fellowships (as described

above), will receive these awards to provide assistance on faculty research projects, work

that may sometimes eventually contribute to the student’s thesis.

6. Faculty

Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management has 44 tenured or tenure-track

faculty, as listed below.

Accounting (9)

(1) Shannon W. Anderson, (2) Bala G. Dharan, (3) Karen K. Nelson, (4) Richard A. Price

III, (5) Francisco J. Roman, (6) Brian R. Rountree, (7) Wilfred C. Uecker, (8) Sally K.

Widener, (9) Stephen A. Zeff.

Business Economics, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology (4)

(1) G. Anthony Gorry, (2) H. Albert Napier, (3) Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr., (4) Edward E.

Williams.

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Finance (11)

(1) Christopher T. Downing, (2) Jeff Fleming, (3) Gustavo Grullon, (4) George Kanatas,

(5) Evgeny Lyandres, (6) Barbara Ostdiek, (7) Bradley Paye, (8) Shane Underwood, (9)

Masahiro Watanabe, (10) James P. Weston, (11) Yuhang Xing.

Marketing (8)

(1) Richard R. Batsell, (2) Sharad Borle, (3) Utpal Dholakia, (4) Amit I. Pazgal, (5)

Andrew Perkins, (6) P.B. (Seethu) Seetharaman, (7) Siddharth Singh, (8) Robert A.

Westbrook.

Organizational Behavior (4)

(1) Jennifer M. George, (2) William H. Glick, (3) D. Brent Smith, (4) Jing Zhou.

Strategy (8)

(1) Margaret Cording, (2) Haiyang Li, (3) Douglas A. Schuler, (4) Ronald N. Taylor, (5)

Carmen B. Weigelt, (6) Margarethe Wiersema, (7) Duane Windsor, (8) Yan Anthea

Zhang.

The above-mentioned faculty members are highly skilled and innovative

researchers who publish in leading academic journals. Numerous academic seminars in

the business school will provide an open forum to observe the presentation of, and

critically comment on, the research of these faculty, advanced Ph.D students, and visiting

faculty from other academic institutions.

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An appropriate subset of the above-mentioned faculty will constitute a thesis

committee that administers the oral examination for a Ph.D student’s thesis defense and

has final approval/disapproval authority and responsibility for the written thesis.

Consistent with Rice University requirements for Ph.D programs, the thesis committee

for each Ph.D candidate in Management will be composed of at least three faculty

members, two of whom -- including the committee chair – will be tenure-track faculty of

the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, and one will have his/her primary

appointment in another department (such as Economics, Psychology, Statistics etc.)

within the University.

Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management currently has 4 full-time (non-

tenure track) communications lecturers -- Gale Wiley, Sandra Elliott, Rick Schell, Beth O

Sullivan – who are experts in teaching presentation and writing skills to our MBA

students. The talents of the communications faculty can be put to excellent use in training

the doctoral students in Management to be effective teachers in the MBA classroom, as

well as effective writers of research papers.

7. Course Requirements

Doctoral candidates must spend at least 2 years in full-time coursework and can

expect to spend at least 1 year writing the dissertation; 4 to 5 years is a reasonable goal

for completing the doctoral program. For the Ph.D, students must complete a program of

at least 12 graduate-level courses, i.e., 3 courses per semester. The typical number of

courses taken by a doctoral student during his/her two years of coursework will vary from

12 to 20 courses (depending on his preference and the advice of his/her area faculty).

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About 20% of a student’s coursework will be taken from the Jesse H. Jones Graduate

School of Management, while the remaining 80% or so will be taken from other

departments – Economics, Psychology, Statistics etc. – on campus (for example, see

Section 4: Typical Doctoral Program in Management). The courses taken from within

the business school will mostly be doctoral seminars where faculty members from the

respective area discuss theoretical and applied research within the area, explicitly

focusing on the research tools that are useful to undertake such research. The courses

taken from outside the business school will provide the fundamental grounding in the

theories and methods that are necessary to undertake effective research in the candidate’s

specialty area. See the Appendix for a complete listing of courses offered in the

University that are potentially relevant for doctoral candidates in Management, as well as

courses that will be offered within the Jones School.

8. Computing, Database and Library Resources

Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management maintains computing resources

for its faculty and Ph.D students, and develops and maintains access to databases needed

to conduct academic research. All the relevant academic journals necessary to pursue

doctoral research in management are currently available – either in hard copy form or

electronic form or both – in the Ruth and Gil Whitaker Business Information Center

(BIC), which is housed within the business school. Doctoral students will also be

provided with shared office space with desks, chairs, filing cabinets etc.

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9. Benchmark Doctoral Program at Emory University

The Goizueta School of Business at Emory University started a doctoral program

in Management in Fall 2002, and serves as an appropriate benchmark for the doctoral

program efforts at the Jones Graduate School of Management for two reasons: (1) The

Goizueta School is the only business school to have started a doctoral program in the

recent past (i.e., within the past decade), and (2) The Goizueta School is considered to be

a “peer” school to the Jones School in terms of attracting similar applicants to the MBA

program, as well as in terms of class size and quality of faculty. Starting by attracting

about 120 applications in its first year, the Goizueta School most recently attracted as

many as about 300 applications for its doctoral program during Fall 2006. They have

admitted from 7 to 12 students each year. Two students have graduated so far, and both

have taken up faculty jobs at good universities (Rutgers University and London Business

School). This augurs well for the prospects of a doctoral program in Management at Rice

University.

Along with this proposal, we attach a couple of pages from the Emory doctoral

program brochure that list sample course-work for their doctoral students, across five

different areas (Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Marketing, Organization and

Management).

10. Feasibility of a Good Doctoral Program in Management at Rice University

As explained thus far, Rice University has the necessary infrastructure and

resources to set up a good doctoral program in Management. The national renown of Rice

University will enable Jones School to attract good quality applications for the doctoral

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program. A large number of applicants and, therefore, admitted candidates in doctoral

programs at various business schools are international students and/or do not have

business degrees, and come from educational backgrounds in fields such as psychology,

economics, engineering etc. To the extent that the applicant pool for the doctoral program

in Management at Rice University are also likely to conform to such a diverse profile, it

is likely that they will transfer their positive evaluation of Rice University -- that comes

from their assessment of the school at Rice University that reflects their educational

background -- in a favorable manner towards the Jones School while evaluating its

doctoral program in Management. This will make it possible for Rice University to both

attract good applicants and admit good students in its doctoral program in Management.

Advertising the high level of research productivity – in terms of research publications --

of current faculty at the Jones School on the business school’s web-site and brochure, as

well as the presence of communications faculty who will aid doctoral students in

acquiring pedagogical -- presentation and writing -- skills, will facilitate such recruitment

efforts. The set-up and successful take-off of a doctoral program in Management at Rice

University will, in turn, assist the recruitment of top-quality research faculty at the Jones

School moving forward. In this sense, there are beneficial synergies between nurturing

the doctoral program in Management and recruiting top-quality Management faculty to

the business school. A last benefit of having a doctoral program in Management is that

doctoral students at Rice University in department such as psychology, economics,

statistics etc. will now have access to doctoral coursework in such areas as applied

financial econometrics, discrete choice theory for marketing strategies etc. that are

currently unavailable on campus.

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11. Assessment Plan for the Doctoral Program in Management

The success of the doctoral program, once it rolls off, will be measured in terms

of the following academic metrics: (1) Initial placement of doctoral graduates as tenure-

track Assistant Professors at accredited universities, (2) Publication record of doctoral

graduates in top academic journals (as already defined in the Jones School for purposes

of assessing faculty research and, therefore, for promotion and tenure purposes) during

and following their graduate studies at the Jones School, and (3) Tenure and Promotion

records of doctoral graduates at their respective Universities, post-graduation from the

Jones School, as they progress in their faculty careers.

12. Budget for the Doctoral Program in Management

The following calculations for the first year are based on the assumption that the

Jones Graduate School of Management will admit 5 doctoral students in its first year.

Annual Stipend for 5 students $25,000*5 $125,000

Annual Health Insurance for 5 students $10,000*5 $50,000

Annual Teaching Expenses $0 $0

(Equivalent of approximately two faculty lines in the first year, which can be

staffed using existing faculty resources)

Administrative Assistant for Doctoral Program $35,000

General Doctoral Program Office Expenses $50,000

(Travel, Publications, General Expenses)

Doctoral Students’ Office Support $50,000

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(Student Travel, Computers, Printers, Telephones)

Program Director (Faculty Member) $20,000

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TOTAL EXPENSES $330,000

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If we assume that doctoral students will graduate 5 years from the time of joining

the program, the number of doctoral students in residence at the Jones Graduate School

of Management will increase from 5 in the year of inception of the doctoral program in

Management to 10, 15, 20, 25 and then stay at 25 students thereafter. This would imply

that the budget would increase from $330,000 in the year of inception to $505,000 in the

second year, $680,000 in the third year, $855,000 in the fourth year, $1,030,000 in the

fifth year, and then stay at an “equilibrium” amount of about $1,030,000 thereafter.8 The

Jones Graduate School of Management can finance its doctoral program entirely from

internally generated revenues. To the extent that Jones School initiatives such as the

Jones Partners Series and the Rice Alliance maintain frequent communications with local

Houston firms, it is entirely possible that firms that hope to benefit from business

research undertaken by doctoral students may fund doctoral research centers in the future.

Such research centers would further showcase the Jones School and serve it well in terms

of both recruiting top-quality faculty, as well as attracting good students to its doctoral

program.

8 It is possible that the annual teaching costs may not be “absorbed” by existing faculty once the doctoral program reaches equilibrium size. In that case, 2 to 3 additional faculty lines, in terms of additional cost, may need to be factored in to the budget calculation. We have ignored this in the current calculations.

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APPENDIX

We list below courses (course numbers, course titles, and credit hours) that are

currently offered around campus at Rice University – outside the Jones Graduate School

of Management -- that are potentially relevant for a doctoral candidate in Management.

Anthropology

ANTH 601 Graduate Proseminar in Anthropology 3

ANTH 610 The Ethnography of Development 3

Computational and Applied Mathematics

CAAM 508 Ordinary Differential Equations 3

CAAM 533 (STAT 533) Advanced Statistical Inference 3

CAAM 540 Applied Functional Analysis 3

CAAM 541 Numerical Linear Algebra 3

CAAM 552 Partial Differential Equations 3

CAAM 581 (STAT 581) Mathematical Probability I 3

CAAM 583 (STAT 583) Introduction to Random Processes 3

CAAM 640 Optimization with Simulation Constraints 3

Computer Science

COMP 502 Neural Networks and Information Theory I 3

COMP 602 Neural Networks and Information Theory II 3

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Economics

ECON 501 Microeconomic Theory I 5

ECON 502 Macroeconomic Theory I 5

ECON 504 (STAT 604) Advanced Economic Statistics 5

ECON 505 Macroeconomic Theory II 5

ECON 506 Topics in Macroeconomic Theory 5

ECON 507 Mathematical Economics I 5

ECON 508 Microeconomic Theory II 5

ECON 509 Microeconomics III 5

ECON 510 (STAT 610) Econometrics I 5

ECON 511 (STAT 611) Econometrics II 5

ECON 512 International Trade Theory 5

ECON 514 Industrial Organization and Control 5

ECON 515 Labor Economics 5

ECON 518 International Macroeconomics 5

ECON 519 Economic Growth and Development 5

ECON 521 Public Finance I 5

ECON 522 Public Finance II 5

ECON 523 Dynamic Optimization 5

ECON 524 Basic Financial Engineering 5

ECON 565 Health Economics 5

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Mathematics

MATH 521 Advanced Topics in Real Analysis 3

MATH 527 Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics 3

Neuroscience

NEUR 501 (PSYC 575) Cognitive Neuroscience I 3

NEUR 502 (PSYC 576) Cognitive Neuroscience II 3

Political Science

POLI 502 Introduction to Statistics 3

POLI 503 (STAT 503) Topics in Methods and Data Analysis 3

POLI 504 Methodology and Data Analysis 3

POLI 511 Measurement and Research Design 3

POLI 520 Approaches to Comparative Government 3

POLI 530 Approaches to American Government 3

POLI 537 Public Policy and Bureaucracy 3

POLI 538 Political Economy of Policy Change 3

POLI 564 Political Economy of Development 3

POLI 566 Comparative Political Theory 3

POLI 568 Comparative Political Institutions 3

POLI 574 Collective Social Choice 3

POLI 575 Game Theory 3

POLI 576 International Political Economy 3

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Psychology

PSYC 502 (STAT 509) Advanced Psychological Statistics I 3

PSYC 503 (STAT 510) Advanced Psychological Statistics II 3

PSYC 504 Computer Applications in Psychology 3

PSYC 507 Research Methods 3

PSYC 511 History and Systems of Psychology 3

PSYC 520 Foundations of Cognitive Psychology 3

PSYC 521 Psychology of Perception 3

PSYC 522 Information Processing and Attention 3

PSYC 524 Memory 3

PSYC 525 Psycholinguistics 3

PSYC 527 Thinking 3

PSYC 529 Cognitive Research Seminar 3

PSYC 530 Foundations of I/O Psychology 3

PSYC 533 I/O Psychology Research Seminar 3

PSYC 540 Foundations of Engineering Psychology 3

PSYC 541 Human Computer Interaction 3

PSYC 543 Computational Modeling of Cognitive Processes 3

PSYC 550 Foundations of Social Psychology 3

PSYC 575 (NEUR 501) Cognitive Neuroscience I 3

PSYC 576 (NEUR 502) Cognitive Neuroscience II 3

PSYC 577 Introduction to Functional Neuroanatomy 3

PSYC 580 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 3

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PSYC 581 Vision Science 3

PSYC 582 Sensory, Perceptual and Attentional Development 3

PSYC 602 Psychometrics 3

PSYC 620 Advanced Topics in Cognitive Psychology 3

PSYC 621 Topics in Memory 3

PSYC 628 Memory Research Seminar 1

PSYC 629 Psycholinguistics Research Seminar 1

PSYC 630 Advanced Topics in I/O 3

PSYC 632 Leadership 3

PSYC 634 Personnel Psychology 3

PSYC 636 Organization Psychology 3

PSYC 671 Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience 3

Statistics

STAT 503 (POLI 503) Topics in Methods and Data Analysis 3

STAT 509 (PSYC 502) Advanced Psychological Statistics I 3

STAT 510 (PSYC 503) Advanced Psychological Statistics II 3

STAT 532 Mathematical Statistics I 3

STAT 533 Advanced Statistical Inference 3

STAT 540 Practicum in Statistical Modeling 2

STAT 541 Multivariate Analysis 3

STAT 542 Simulation 3

STAT 545 Generalized Linear Models 3

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STAT 546 Design and Analysis of Experiments 3

STAT 547 Survival Analysis 3

STAT 550 Nonparametric Function Estimation 3

STAT 551 Advanced Topics in Time Series 3

STAT 552 Applied Stochastic Processes 3

STAT 553 Biostatistics 3

STAT 581 (CAAM 581) Mathematical Probability I 3

STAT 582 Mathematical Probability II 3

STAT 583 (CAAM 583) Introduction to Random Processes 3

STAT 586 Wavelet and Spectral Analysis 3

STAT 604 (ECON 504) Advanced Economic Statistics 5

STAT 610 (ECON 510) Econometrics I 5

STAT 611 (ECON 511) Econometrics II 5

STAT 622 Bayesian Data Analysis 3

STAT 639 Extreme Value Theory 3

STAT 640 Data Mining and Statistical Learning 3

STAT 647 Advanced Survival Analysis 3

STAT 650 Stochastic Differential Equations 3

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We list below courses (possible course numbers, course titles, and credit hours)

that will be offered within the Jones Graduate School of Management that would be

relevant for a doctoral candidate in Management. These courses will also be open to

graduate students across campus with relevant backgrounds in economics, psychology,

statistics etc.

Fall Doctoral Courses

MGMT 901 Graduate Proseminar in Marketing Research - I 3

MGMT 903 Econometric Models in Marketing 3

MGMT 905 Empirical Methods in Finance - I 3

MGMT 907 Corporate Finance 3

MGMT 909 Graduate Proseminar in Strategy – I 3

MGMT 911 Research Methods in Strategy – I 3

MGMT 913 Graduate Proseminar in Organizational Behavior-I 3

MGMT 915 Creativity and Innovation 3

MGMT 917 Empirical Methods in Accounting Research 3

MGMT 919 Capital Markets Research in Accounting 3

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Spring Doctoral Courses

MGMT 902 Graduate Proseminar in Marketing Research - II 3

MGMT 904 Game Theory Models in Marketing 3

MGMT 906 Empirical Methods in Finance - II 3

MGMT 908 Asset Pricing 3

MGMT 910 Graduate Proseminar in Strategy – II 3

MGMT 912 Research Methods in Strategy – II 3

MGMT 914 Graduate Proseminar in Organizational Behavior-II 3

MGMT 916 Affect and Behavior in Organizations 3

MGMT 918 Financial Reporting and Management Control 3

MGMT 920 Accounting Information and Disclosure 3