Doctor of Philosophy in Business

If you are intellectually curious, enjoy learning new things and generating new ideas, have an analytical mind for solving problems, and desire to work as a full-time, tenure-track faculty member at a business school, a doctoral degree in business is ideally suited for you.

Faculty and student collaboration

Study: Professional stock recs on social media prove surprisingly valuable
Eric Weisbrod, associate professor of accounting, and Matt Peterson, accounting doctoral candidate, are co-authors of research that shows social media may be a surprisingly reliable source for stock tips — if you know where to look. Users tend to follow the advice of other users making money. The article examines sell-side analysts’ stock recommendation revisions on Twitter, before the platform was renamed X.
Study: A relational view of shiftwork: Co-scheduling with higher performers
Faculty member Patrick Downes worked with doctoral student Sareum "Ella" Lee on a study about the practice of scheduling shift workers into times and places to conduct their work.
Study: Multinational enterprises should choose between two colocation strategies
Professor Chang Hoon Oh collaborated with Jukyeong Han, an assistant professor at McMaster University and a former doctoral student at KU, along with Minyoung Kim, on a paper to help managers answer whether multinational enterprises should repeatedly colocate with the same competitors across multiple countries or with diverse competitors with less repetition.

Study: PCAOB insepection deficiencies and future financial reporting quality: D…
Professor Chan Li co-authored a study with Patience Constance, who earned a doctorate in accounting from KU, and Clive Lennox, examining whether PCAOB inspection reports are useful for signaling the risk of misstatements in future periods and the extent to which different types of audit deficiencies predict future misstatements.
Video: Workplace + audit study
Faculty members Adi Masli and Felix Meschke and professor emeritus Jim Guthrie worked with then-doctoral candidate Minjie Huang on this study about how workplace environment influences outcomes of an audit.

Faculty and current students

The school has a highly motivated and qualified cadre of professors with interdisciplinary research orientation. Most of our faculty have Ph.D.s from the top U.S. research universities. Some of our graduates have been placed at leading business schools.

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In addition to full tuition and fee payment, all Ph.D. students are supported via research or teaching assistantships or fellowships. Subsidized health insurance is available through the university. Learn more about funding opportunities.

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