Strategy and Entrepreneurship Ph.D.
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The Strategy and Entrepreneurship Ph.D. program, designed by the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Innovation department (SEVI), offers students the opportunity to work directly with distinguished faculty to develop cutting-edge business research.
Program Overview
The Strategy and Entrepreneurship curriculum is designed for flexibility, with focused core courses in Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management, and elective courses in economics, psychology, sociology, political science, and public administration. The combination of a strong core and several areas of emphasis allows students to develop novel theoretical contributions and practical insights for managers, entrepreneurs, and their organizations.
Areas of Emphasis
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship explores how individuals recognize and exploit opportunities and develop new technologies and organizations. Students may further focus on social entrepreneurship, which examines how individuals or start-up companies develop, fund and implement solutions to social or environmental issues.
Strategy and the Business Environment
Strategy and the Business Environment focuses on how business uses strategies such as lobbying and financial contributions to politicians or PACs to achieve superior performance. It also focuses on how other actors in the business environment, such as social movement activists, regulatory agencies and the judiciary, affect business performance.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility explores how companies simultaneously address the expectations of shareholders and external stakeholders concerned with social and environmental issues. It often involves a “Triple-Bottom-Line" approach through which a company achieves a balance of economic, environmental and social imperatives.
Micro Foundations of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Micro foundations of strategy and entrepreneurship explores the broad impact that individuals have on new and established organizations. It integrates individual-level and firm-level perspectives to understand how individual characteristics such as personality and values shape important organizational outcomes including firm performance, strategy, new value creation, and financial capital acquisition.
Program Structure
The Ph.D. program in Strategy and Entrepreneurship is designed to ensure that students receive an exposure to the broad areas of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, develop the conceptual skills and methodological tools necessary to design and conduct independent research, and develop the skills and experience necessary to teach at all levels of higher education. The program requires an educational background in business, sociology, political science, or economics. Students without this educational background may also be admitted but may be required to take up to 3 master's level courses in one of these areas.
SEVI Program of Study
Required Courses 13 credit hours |
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Choose one of the following: |
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Supporting Fields Choose four courses from the following:12 credit hours |
Supporting courses can include the below options or equivalent courses as approved by the Ph.D. Coordinator.
Courses for the supporting fields requirement are selected in consultation with the student's Ph.D. Advisory Committee. All courses taken for the Supporting Fields must be at the graduate level and/or taken for graduate credit. In certain circumstances, and with the approval of the student's advisor and Ph.D. coordinator, a student may request permission to substitute a graduate course not listed here. |
Research Requirements 18 credit hours |
Research methods courses can include the below options or equivalent courese as approved by the Ph.D. Coordinator.
Choose 12 hours from the following:
Courses used to meet the Research Requirements will be selected in consultation with the student's Ph.D. Advisory Committee and should support the student's program of study. The courses should provide the student with a knowledge of advanced descriptive and inferential statistics, research design, and research methods. In certain circumstances, and with the approval of the student's advisor and Ph.D. coordinator, a student may request to substitute a graduate course not listed here.
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Dissertation 18 credit hours |
Admissions Requirements for
the Ph.D. Programs
Applicants who wish to apply for the doctoral program in SEVI must submit their application to the Graduate School of Business by December 15.
Learn more about admissions requirements.Placements
- Penn State - Dora Roumpi
- Appalachian State - Jacqueline Tilton
- University of Nebraska – Mirzo Abdurakhmonov
- Kansas State - Hansin Bilgili
- Colorado State - Samantha Conroy
Faculty Research Interests and Highlights