Management & Organizations

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PhD in Management and Organizations

Prepare for a career teaching and leading at a top business school. Collaborating with world-renowned faculty, you’ll produce research that explores individual and organizational dynamics, helping managers make better leadership decisions. Leverage the resources of top-ranked social sciences programs across the University of Michigan to add breadth and depth to your research.

The M&O program allowed me to learn and try new things in a nurturing environment and then gave me the freedom to develop my ideas. The faculty are engaged and really care about students’ success. Whenever I expressed an interest in doing something unique to further my development, they were fully supportive. Michigan Ross has all of the pieces I needed to grow as a scholar, and the resources and depth of collaboration across the university are unmatched.

Lindsey Cameron, PhD '20, Assistant Professor of Management, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

Research Origins: Where do research ideas come from?

Michigan Ross Professor Gretchen Spreitzer explains the genesis of her research on how employees at the middle level of an organization can feel empowered to spark change and thrive.

Management and Organizations PhD Program Structure

The first two years of the program include a sequence of four seminars on organizational behavior and theory and four terms of research methods courses, two of which must be quantitative. You will take additional graduate courses in your areas of interest.

Before the end of the second year, you will complete a piece of empirical research under faculty guidance.

The preliminary exam, covering organizational behavior, organizational theory, and research methods, takes place at the end of the second year. The remainder of the program is devoted to the dissertation.

Management and Organizations PhD Faculty

As a PhD student at Michigan Ross, you will have the opportunity to work closely with social scientists spanning a broad range of research areas and have access to unparalleled resources for pursuing your diverse scholarly interests.

Maxim Sytch

Professor of Management and Organizations

Sue Ashford

Michael & Susan Jandernoa Professor of Management and Organizations

Wayne Baker

Robert P. Thome Professor Emeritus of Business Administration

Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Charleen Case

Assistant Professor for Management and Organizations

Julia Lee Cunningham

Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Jerry Davis

Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration

Professor of Management and Organizations

Lindy Greer

Professor for Management and Organizations

Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow

Andy Hoffman

Professor of Management & Organizations

Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Holcim (US), Inc. Professor of Sustainable Enterprise

Shirli Kopelman

Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations

Ethan Kross

Professor of Management and Organizations

Dave Mayer

John H. Mitchell Professor in Business Ethics

Professor of Management and Organizations

Chair of Management & Organizations

Scott Page

John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management

Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration

Professor of Management and Organizations, Ross

Professor of Political Science, Professor of Complex Systems, Professor of Economics, LS&A

Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks

William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration

Professor of Management and Organizations

Lance Sandelands

Professor of Management and Organizations

Professor of Psychology

Gretchen Spreitzer

Associate Dean for Executive and Corporate Relations

Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration

Professor of Management and Organizations

Jim Walsh

A.F. Thurnau Professor

Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Business Administration

Professor of Management & Organizations

Professor of Strategy

Janet Weiss

Mary C Bromage Collegiate Professor of Business Administration

Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy

Stephen M Ross School of Business and Professor of Public Policy

Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Learn more about the faculty and research contributions of the management and organazations area at Michigan Ross.

Management & Organizations Faculty and Research

Recent Management and Organizations Placements

Mijeong Kwon, 2022
University of Colorado, Denver

Laura Sonday, 2021
University of North Carolina

Eun Woo Kim, 2020
University of Nottingham, Ningbo China

Lindsey Cameron, 2019
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Teddy Dewitt, 2019
University of Massachusetts, Boston

Cassandra Chambers, 2018
Bocconi University

Chen Zhang, 2018
Tsinghua University

Lyndon Garrett, 2017
Boston College

Ashley Hardin, 2017
Washington University

Yong Hyun Ki, 2017
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Maddy Ong, 2016
Singapore Management University

Matt Karlesky, 2015
Suffolk University

Suntae Kim, 2015
Boston College

Chris Myers, 2015
Harvard University

Current Management & Organizations PhD Students

Join the next generation of research scholars preparing to solve the most complex issues facing the fields of management and organizations.

Katherine (Kat) Bae
katkbae@umich.edu

Christina Bradley
cmbrad@umich.edu

Laurel Detert
ljdetert@umich.edu

Megan Gabruk
mgabruk@umich.edu

Manjari (Manju) Ganti
mganti@umich.edu

Sarah Gordon
sjgordo@umich.edu

Hilary Hoyt Hendricks
hihilary@umich.edu

Eun Bit Hwang
eunbit@umich.edu

Devin Kilpatrick
devinbk@umich.edu

Sukanya Roy
suroy@umich.edu

Zoe Schwingel-Sauer
zoeschw@umich.edu

Alaina Segura
ansegura@umich.edu

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