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Interested in a Phd in Management?
What can I do with a PhD in Management?
Most management PhD programs seek to train individuals to become professors of management in research-productive universities. It is rare that PhD programs are tailored at training practitioners and consultants. If you are interested in this type of career, you might consider a DBA program or a Master’s degree or Phd in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
What do Management Professors do?
Every university, department, and job is slightly different, but generally speaking management professors teach, conduct research, and engage in service.
Teaching: Most management professors teach management courses, but some might also teach general business courses. The amount of teaching that professor do depends on the type of job—some jobs are more teaching heavy and some jobs are more research heavy.
Research: Almost all tenure-track management professors engage in academic research. Academic research typically involves asking research questions and making specific hypotheses on topics that interest you and are also of interest to managers, collecting data to test those hypotheses, writing up the results in a journal article format, and submitting to academic journals with the hopes of being published. Another part of the job that sometimes falls under research, but can also fall under service, includes mentoring and training students (undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD)
Service: Service can be devoted to ones university, college, department, or even to the field at large and involves activities that help generate new, or sustain, build, and/or promote existing, academic endeavors. Service can include reviewing and/or editing for conferences and journals, serving on committees, chairing or being part of theses and dissertations, and many other tasks,
Where can I find a list of schools that grant PhDs in Management?
To my knoweldge, there is not an exhaustive list of PhD-granting institutions for Management, but there are lists of Departments of managements, many of which do have PhD programs. For instance, the TAMUGA rankings are a joint effort by Texas A&M and UGA to rank management departments based on research productivity (i.e., number of publications). See that list here: https://www.tamugarankings.com/
suggestions for GMAT/GRE resources
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The GRE Official Guide (from the test makers)
The GMAT Official Guides (from the test makers)
Graduate Admissions Essays (4th Edition)
Note: While there are a lot of guide books out there, this one is particularly helpful because it outlines ALL of the minutia involved and all the steps that you need to consider and take to successfully navigate the graduate admissions process.
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