Lindner PhD Programs

PhD

in business administration

LINDNER College of Business

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support for

PhD

students at

Lindner is incredible.

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

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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.

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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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fficial transcripts of all previous graduate and O undergraduate institutions

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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