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Doctoral Program Specialization & Course Work All doctoral students will take a five course seminar series in their first year that provides a foundation in the primary intellectual disciplines that inform management scholars. Four courses -- organizational behavior, organizational theory, strategy, and managerial cognition -- provide a strong theoretical grounding. The fifth course is a research methods survey course that will provide students with a solid foundation in a variety of research methodologies commonly deployed in management studies. Please click here to see course descriptions. To further the depth of one's studies, students are expected to choose an area of specialization. The purpose of the specialty is to allow students to gain expertise in one of the underlying social science disciplines. Student may choose from one of three core areas of management:
Beyond the five first-year doctoral seminars, students are expected to take a number of advanced seminars in their area of specialization. The doctoral program allows a student to complete all course work in two years of full-time study. While credit may be granted for courses taken at other institutions, students must complete at least 15 points of course work at NYU. To remain in the program, a student must maintain a grade point average of at least a 3.0. While completing courework, each student will choose a faculty advisor. Until a student has chosen an advisor, the school's Doctoral Office and the Department Coordinator provide advice. Comprehensive Exams After completing their courework, students take both a written and an oral comprehensive examination. To take the comprehensive examination a student must have no more than one incomplete course. The written examination deals only with topics relating directly to a major in management. It tests a student's knowledge of the field, and offers a student opportunities to critique and integrate current developments, to generate research questions, and to derive practical implications. The Management Department offers doctoral comprehensive examinations only once each year typically in the late spring. Exams are tailored to individual students given their area of specialization. Students are expected to exhibit competency in all areas of management and expertise in their choosen area of specialization. Students are also expected to demonstrate that they can devise effective research designs. The Ph.D. Program Committee decides which questions appear on a specific examination. As a rule, the examination is closed book -- students cannot refer to books or notes. The possible grades are: 4 denoting High Pass, 3 denoting Pass, 2 denoting Marginal, 1 denoting Fail. Any student who attains an average score of 2 or better passes the written portion of the examination and may take the oral portion of the examination. Any student who attains an average score lower than 2 fails the written portion of the examination and must take the entire examination over again. Except in special circumstances, a failing student will have to complete an additional year of study before taking the examination again. A student who passes the written portion of the examination is told of any topics in which he/she performed poorly or in which her/his knowledge remains in doubt. He or she then has a week to ten days to prepare for the oral portion. However, the oral portion of the examination is not restricted to these topics: the examiners have the right to inquire about any part of the field of management. Each student chooses two members of his/her orals committee and the Department Coordinator chooses two members. A student should come to the oral portion of the examination prepared to talk for twenty minutes about her/his research interests. This presentation and the ensuing discussion are intended to help students to develop dissertation ideas. If failed, the examinations may be retaken only once, after an appropriate period of further study; the student must retake both the written and oral sections. The examination committee normally provides a failing student with a written statement of the reasons for failure. Summer Paper Following comprehensives, students will write a summer paper in the second summer of their residency that he/she intends to submit to a peer-reviewed journal. Students will be required to present their papers in a department seminar in the following Spring. Dissertation After passing the comprehensive examination and completing the summer paper, a student chooses a dissertation committee and prepares a written dissertation proposal. A dissertation committee consists of at least three members: normally two members represent management and one member represents another field. The student designates one member of the dissertation committee as chairperson. A dissertation committee can include persons who are not affiliated with New York University, but the chairperson must be a member of the Stern School's faculty. After the dissertation is at least 25 percent done but less than 50 percent done, the student presents a dissertation proposal. The student presents this proposal to an advisory committee composed of (a) the three (or more) members of the intended dissertation committee and (b) two faculty members chosen by the Department Coordinator: at least one of the latter of whom should come from outside the Management department. If the advisory committee accepts the proposal, the student prepares a memorandum that summarizes the discussion and specifies how the proposal is being revised to meet major criticisms. A completed dissertation must satisfy three members of the dissertation committee. The student must also present the completed work at a public seminar that is attended by the dissertation committee and other interested people. A student must complete all requirements within six years of entry into the doctoral program. Advising and Policies The Managment Department has a Doctoral Committee that meets regularly to evaluate student progress, advise the Coordinator on admissions decisions, consider policy changes, etc. Each year students prepare a Progress Report and Plan which is the basis of an annual evaluation and feedback process involving advisors, faculty for whom students work in research practicum, and the Management Doctoral Committee. We have found this process a valuable way to provide our students with guidance when it is most useful. |
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