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Learn more about the Executive Doctorate program at an upcoming open house event:
Monday, November 3
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Grand Hyatt Buckhead
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Monday, November 10
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Buckhead Executive Education Center
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 | Overview
To thrive in today's complex, internationally competitive business environment, organizations require leaders who possess interdisciplinary knowledge, the ability to think in global terms and the acumen to design systems that shape and respond to worldwide and societal trends.
The Executive Doctorate in Business program offered by the J. Mack Robinson College of Business of Georgia State University helps executives develop these capabilities by teaching them how to apply relevant knowledge and research skills to contemporary business problems. It also addresses the lifelong learning needs of intellectually active professional adults who already possess advanced degrees in their fields but wish to continue their education to the highest level.
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Benefits
Robinson College's Executive Doctorate in Business advances the development and practice of effective organizational leadership by providing senior-level executives with:
- Knowledge and expertise to identify, understand and tackle interdisciplinary, big-picture issues that characterize international business management
- Skills in formal social inquiry to define and address complex issues and, in turn, to disseminate knowledge that will influence professional activity and public policy
- An interdisciplinary, globally oriented perspective that is unavailable in traditional advanced degree programs
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Student Profile
- Senior managers and executives with significant business experience and high intellectual capability and curiosity—such as consultants, principals in market research firms and executives of firms that value and use results of business research studies
- Practitioners with a commitment to lifelong learning and professional development
- Executives who desire to go beyond the level of business understanding provided by an MBA degree
- Individuals who wish to join the ranks of the 12% of CEOs who hold doctorates
- Professionals who want advanced education beyond an MBA but who are unwilling to abandon their current career for full-time study
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Program Description
Robinson's Executive Doctorate in Business comprises course-based activities and research projects with the initial emphasis on course activities and an increased focus on research projects as students progress through the program.
Six content courses provide students with knowledge about global business leadership:
- Leadership to Create Human Value
- Theory & Practice of Collective Action
- Emerging Markets and Global Models for Business
- Global Economic Systems and Issues
- Influences and Limitations on Executive Decision Making
- Social Responsibility in Business Leadership
Five courses on research practices, design and analysis equip students with the understanding required to undertake formal research:
- Research Publications and Practices
- Designing Qualitative Research Studies
- Analyzing Qualitative Research Data
- Designing Quantitative Research Studies
- Analyzing Quantitative Research Data
During the second and third semesters, students participate in research projects in groups of two to three people, under the supervision of a senior researcher. Each project will address a contemporary business issue and be conducted with the objective of publishing the results.
During the fourth, fifth and sixth semesters, each student engages in an independent research project under the supervision of a senior researcher. This project addresses a business issue affecting the student's firm. Each student will produce and defend a doctoral thesis with the expectation of publishing it.
Finally, the program offers seminars and workshops with senior researchers to stimulate the participants' learning and ongoing research activities.
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Location
The program is offered in an executive format with students coming to Georgia State University's Buckhead Executive Education Center for four three-day residencies (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays) during each of six semesters over a three-year period. Executive Doctorate in Business students will take a total of 18 three-credit-hour course- and project-based activities (including 15 credit-hours of thesis work).
The program is located at the Buckhead Executive Education Center at 200 Tower Place, Suite 400, 3348 Peachtree Rd. NE.
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Fees
Program fees are $95,000, payable over three years.*
Contacts
Maury Kalnitz
Director
Executive Doctorate in Business
404-413-7187 (office)
404-413-2203 (mobile)
kalnitz@gsu.edu |
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Lars Mathiassen, Ph.D.
Academic Director
Executive Doctorate in Business
404-413-7855 (office)
lmathiassen@gsu.edu |
Buckhead Executive Education Center
Tower Place 200, Ste. 400
3348 Peachtree Rd. NE
Atlanta, GA 30326
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* Pricing is subject to change.
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