
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.

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.
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.
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.
Learn more about the faculty and research contributions of the management and organazations area at Michigan Ross.
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
Join the next generation of research scholars preparing to solve the most complex issues facing the fields of management and organizations.

Katherine (Kat) Bae
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Christina Bradley
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Manjari (Manju) Ganti
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Devin Kilpatrick
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Sukanya Roy
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Zoe Schwingel-Sauer
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Alaina Segura
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