PhD
in business administration
LINDNER College of Business
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The
support for
PhD
students at
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is invested in helping candidates succeed as researchers and as teachers.
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The college
-Marcie, 4th year PhD student
The PhD program at Lindner is built on an apprenticeship-style training model in which our students learn the history and current state of research in their area of concentration, conduct original research that advances knowledge in their field, and transfer their knowledge to others through teaching.
THE LINDNER PhD IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM HAS SIX AREAS OF CONCENTRATION: • Accounting
The primary mission of the Lindner PhD Program is to train future business school faculty who not only
• Economics
teach in and across the disciplines in which they work, but also advance knowledge in those disciplines
• Finance
through the generation and conduct of original research. Students work closely with faculty starting day one
• Management
of the program.
• Marketing
Our primary impact lies in supplying extraordinary faculty members to both public and private schools
• Operations, Business Analytics & Information Systems
of business administration, both within the United States and internationally. Recent placements include Clemson University, Drexel University, Michigan State University, Providence College, University of Guelph
In each concentration students learn from the best and
and University of South Florida, among others.
have opportunities to research and teach in their chosen field. The research generated in all concentrations by our doctoral students and faculty addresses issues of national and international importance. Each program is flexible and tailored to the needs of the individual students.
Top Researchers, Top Teachers Lindner faculty is comprised of award-winning researchers. Our professors don’t just teach from the textbooks, they write the textbooks. Perhaps that’s why terms they coin are added to Webster’s Dictionary and their expertise is cited by national media outlets ranging from The New York Times and The Washington Post to ABC News and CBS Sports. Beyond research, our faculty routinely win teaching awards both locally and nationally.
Economics
Accounting Robert K. Larson, CPA, CMA, is Department
Mark Myring is a Professor as well as the
David Brasington is a
Head and a Professor of Accounting. He is a Past-
Norwook and Marjorie Geis Endowed Chair in
Professor and the James C.
President of the American Accounting Association’s
Accounting. His current research focuses on the use
and Caroline Kautz Chair
International Accounting Section and received
of accounting information and analysts’ forecasts
in Political Economy. His
their 2010 Outstanding
in domestic and international
research on house prices and
Service Award and their 2014
capital markets. His
school-related issues has been
Outstanding International
research has been published
cited over 1000 times. He has
Accounting Educator Award.
in The Accounting Review,
presented his work in seven
He’s written nearly three dozen
Contemporary Accounting
different countries.
articles in a variety of leading
Research, Journal of Accounting
general and international
and Public Policy, Journal
accounting journals.
of Business Finance and Accounting and the CPA Journal.
Top 25 Master of Accounting program in the most recent Public Accounting Report
Debashis Pal is the David Sinton Professor of Economics. His research interests are in microeconomics, industrial organization and applied game theory. His research characterizing economic outcomes arising in varied market structures is widely
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cited in the literature.
Jeff Mills is an Associate Professor of Economics.
Steve Slezak is a financial theorist whose research
Chen Xue joined the University of Cincinnati as an
His research interests are in the areas of time series
appears in top-tier finance and economics journals,
assistant professor of finance in 2012 after earning
econometrics, Bayesian inference and statistical
including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial
his PhD in finance from the University of Michigan.
hypothesis testing. He has
Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of
He is an active researcher in the area of empirical
published articles in the
Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of
asset pricing and has published
Journal of Econometrics,
Economics and Management Strategy. In general,
articles in leading finance
Journal of Applied
his research focuses on how informational problems
journals such as the Review of
Econometrics, Econometric
adversely affect managerial incentives and the
Financial Studies.
Reviews, Empirical Economics,
effective management, sharing, and pricing of
and Applied Economics.
risk. His current project areas include: incentives to commit
Finance
fraud, executive compensation, liquidity and model risk and the pricing of idiosyncratic risk.
Alex Borisov joined the University of Cincinnati in 2012. His research centers on corporate finance. He has published his research in journals such as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Journal of Banking and Finance. His work has been presented at numerous national and international academic conferences and institutions
Top 10 Master of Finance programs by Master of Finance Degrees* *Of programs under $23,000
as well as featured in the Wall Street Journal. PhD Program, 2014-15
Management Elaine Hollensbe received the 2010 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in WorkFamily Research and the 2011 Owens Scholarly Achievement Award for her collaborative research on work-home balance. Another paper, “Where is the ‘Me’ among the ‘We’?: Identity Work in a Greedy Occupation,” received the 2006 Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award as selected by ten highly regarded researchers in the field from the Top Ten Management journals. Suzanne Masterson is Doctoral Program Director and an Associate Professor of Management. Her research on organizational justice and organizationemployee relationships has appeared in many top journals. Masterson is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and serves on three top editorial review boards.
Charles Matthews is
Joshua Clarkson is a
a Distinguished Teaching
consumer psychologist who
Professor of Entrepreneurship
specializes in the areas of
and Strategic Management.
persuasion, self-regulation,
He is also the Founder of
and expertise. His research
the University of Cincinnati
has been published in various
Center for Entrepreneurship
journals, including the Journal
Education & Research. He is
of Consumer Research, the
an internationally recognized scholar with research
Journal of Marketing Research,
published in leading journals on topics such as
and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
nascent entrepreneurship, family business, strategy,
His findings have been featured in media outlets
innovation, leadership, and decision-making.
from business magazines to pop-psychology books.
Matthews has been quoted in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Industry Week,
Mary Steffel is a recipient
Forbes, Business Week, and Inc. He is also the coauthor
of the Society for Consumer
of Innovation & Entrepreneurship: A Competency
Psychology Dissertation Award
Framework (Routledge, forthcoming 2015).
for her research on gift giving. Her research on consumer
Marketing
judgment and decision making
Frank Kardes is Recipient of the 2004
worldwide such as NBC’s Today
Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for Consumer Psychology. He is also a Fellow of five professional societies, the Co-Editor of Marketing Letters, and a member of several editorial boards.
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has been featured in media Show, Time magazine, Yahoo! and Women’s Health magazine.
Lindner marketing program is ranked among the Top 40 graduate programs in the country by Master’s Degrees Online
Operations, Business Analytics and Information Systems Jeff Camm is a Professor of Business Analytics and
Craig Froehle is a Professor of Operations.
the Director of the University of Cincinnati Center
He also holds appointments at the University of
for Business Analytics. He is an INFORMS Edelman
Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati
Laureate and the recipient of the INFORMS Prize
Children’s hospital. He studies health care delivery
for the Teaching of Operations
system issues like emergency department capacity
Research Practice. His research
management, operating room
in innovative applications of
scheduling, clinic workflow,
optimization has appeared in
and improving the patient
Science, Management Science,
experience. His award-winning
Operations Research and other
research has been widely
journals.
published in both business and health care journals.
Yan Yu is a Professor of
“
The faculty,
both in the department and surrounding the PhD program, are amazing.
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-Gary, 2nd year PhD student
Lindner Business Analytics
Business Analytics. She researches nonparametric
Roger Chiang is a Professor of Information
estimation, statistical finance, and data mining. She
Systems. His research interests include business
is ranked among the Top 20
has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of
intelligence, data and knowledge management,
the American Statistical Association and Statistica
and intelligent systems, particularly in database
graduate data analytics
Sinica. At the University of Cincinnati, she received
reverse engineering, database
Honorable Mention for the
integration, data and text
Excellence in Mentoring of
mining, document classification
Doctoral Students Award.
and clustering, domain
programs in North America by InformationWeek
knowledge discovery, semantic information retrieval, and text analytics for market structure analysis. PhD Program, 2014-15
Meet
a few
PhD Candidates
Sung Doo Kim is opening a rare avenue of research into coping with technology-induced distractions from work in our contemporary society. Previous research has focused on breaks during off-job hours such as evening, weekend and vacation periods or on traditional “offline” breaks taken during working hours such as lunch or coffee breaks. Given the prevalence of online work breaks, his University of Cincinnati studies examined this phenomenon in depth, utilizing extensive one-on-one interviews with professionals from a variety of industries and occupations. Kim’s recent study suggests that managers consider organizational policies that tap into the positive potential of online work breaks but also establish policies encouraging responsible behavior such as providing limits on the time spent on online breaks or holding training on effective strategies that bring benefits from online breaks. After presenting his findings at the Academy of Management meeting, Kim’s research was picked up by news outlets including the Huffington Post, Economic Times (India), Business Courier, China Topix and the Daily Mail. Kim was awarded a Society for Human Resources Management Foundation Dissertation Award to help fund his dissertation.
at
Lindner
Lauren Laker’s current research draws on the fields of operations research, management, health care services research and information systems. She currently has two papers in press: • The Flex Track: Flexible Partitioning between Low- and High-Acuity Areas of an Emergency Department • T he Nature and Necessity of Operational Flexibility in the Emergency Department Both papers, which are multidisciplinary collaborations, explore the utilization of physical resources in the emergency department. Through research led by Laker, which involved field observation, primary data collection, and the development of a discrete-event simulation, she evaluated the possible benefits of flexible capacity. The study results suggest that operational flexibility is a valuable tool for improving efficiency, and that flexible resource allocation should be considered in order to help emergency departments respond more effectively to demand variability and to mitigate resource-based operational constraints. Her research is in press at Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Ashley Otto’s research lies at the intersection of social cognition and judgment and decisionmaking. She takes a strong theoretical approach to her work, aiming to explain multiple theories via common underlying meta-theories. A paper that is currently under review explores the intersection of a variety of different choice strategies that consumers rely on for decision-making. Specifically, Otto and her co-authors explore the commonalities of those who make decisions by, essentially, avoiding them. For instance, failing to make a decision, postponing a decision, or making a decision that does not involve action or change all represent this broader phenomenon of decision avoidance. Looking at the cognitive motivations underlying decision avoidance, this work finds that the ubiquitous bias to engage in decision avoidance can be driven by a consumer’s desire to achieve cognitive closure with a decision. Essentially, consumers engage in decision avoidance strategies as a quick yet justifiable means to resolve a choice and achieve closure with a decision.
Life the
in
Queen City
People often state that Cincinnati is the “biggest small town in the world”, an
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Kiplinger magazine ranked Cincinnati best bet for “hot spots” and among the 10 greatest cities for young adults
excellent combination of small-town friendliness coupled with all of the advantages of a big city. Now is an exciting time to be part of Cincinnati’s vibrant community where students and young
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Cincinnati was named the ninth smartest city in the country by Movoto
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A thriving arts community representing all 5 arts disciplines: ballet, opera, art museums, symphony, and theater
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Forbes named Cincinnati one of the Top 20 U.S. cities where individuals can truly make a difference
families can enjoy both an affordable cost of living and a thriving downtown district filled with events and attractions. The University of Cincinnati’s strategic location at the heart of such a diverse and ever-expanding business environment provides many opportunities for our PhD students to research real-world problems in real-world settings.
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Cincinnati has more Fortune 500 companies per capita than New York, Los Angeles, Boston or Chicago
Most
Mashable named Cincinnati as the most social city in the country
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
The University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business PhD program is designed to provide the background and skills necessary to conduct independent research and to prepare the student for a primary career in teaching and research.
Admissions Process APPLY ONLINE: GRAD.UC.EDU APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JANUARY 15TH
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S tatement of Purpose: why you wish to pursue a PhD degree, including area(s) of research and teaching interest
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ree letters of recommendation from faculty Th members or professional colleagues. Writers may use their own style
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fficial GMAT (no code needed) or GRE score O sent directly from ETS (University code 1833)
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fficial TOEFL scores sent directly from ETS O (University code 1833, international students)
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esume/vita outlining educational and work R experience
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The application fee: $65 for domestic students
These materials should be submitted online with the application or sent to the Graduate Programs Office listed below. When all of these materials have been received, the application will be reviewed for an admissions decision. Applicants will receive written notification of the admissions decision. PhD Program Office University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business PO Box 210020 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0020 USA (513) 556-7190
and $70 for international students
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Suzanne Masterson, PhD Doctoral Program Director Suzanne.Masterson@uc.edu (513) 556-7125
Angel Elvin Assistant Director, Graduate Programs Angel.Elvin@uc.edu (513) 556-7190
Credit Hours: Minimum 90 semester credit hours above the baccalaureate degree (60 semester credit hours above the master’s degree) distributed as follows: Introductory Doctoral Seminar 3 Core Statistics Requirement 6 Additional Research Methods 6 Area of Concentration 18 Support Area/Area Specified 15 Business Core 8 Additional Choice Coursework 4 Total Seminar/Course Hours 60 Dissertation work 30 TOTAL GRADUATE HOURS 90
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There are three reasons that I chose the University of Cincinnati:
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its location, near an urban, downtown environment, the caliber and friendliness of the professors, and the fact that the program allows teaching in the second year.
-Carlos, 2nd year PhD student
Carl H. Lindner College of Business PhD Program Office