Why Earn a PhD
A doctoral degree can help you join the academic world, either full or part time. But it can also make you a game-changing performer in your current field.
You’ll become a more skilled and confident executive, facing your company’s challenges with high-quality research approaches empowering you to identify inventive, evidence-based solutions. Or you can branch out as a consultant and guide other businesses to success.
Why the Daniels College of Business
- Perform research in the specialty of your choice.
- Learn through a blended format that includes distance learning and two on-campus immersions per quarter.
- Grow through Daniels’ unique approaches of ethical leadership and real-world, challenge-based learning.
- Work closely with faculty who are top researchers in their fields of expertise.
- Enjoy not only the benefits of the Rocky Mountains, but close ties to Denver, a thriving and highly entrepreneurial business community.
Qualified PhD Candidates
- Are established business leaders with a master’s degree and at least 10 years of substantial experience*
- Have demonstrated leadership experience necessary to identify and research relevant and timely business issues
- Are high performers with experience integrating research into real-life challenges
- Are driven by intellectual curiosity about complex problem-solving
- Want to approach business issues more systematically, making decisions based on research and data
*Applications that do not meet our minimum requirements will be considered based on tenure, educational history, work experience and previous accolades.
For More Information
Contact us if you have questions, want to discuss your research interests or would like to learn more about the Executive PhD.
Perform in-depth research in the specialty of your choice.
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Student and Alumni News
Leo Dixon and John Sebesta
Cohorts 5 and 3
Had their paper “AI Adoption in Entrepreneurial Firms: The Influence of Innovativeness, Proactiveness, and Risk-Taking” accepted by the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Dennis Dunivan, Paula Mann and Dale Collins
Cohort 3
Had their article “Expanding the Empirical Study of Virtual Reality Beyond Empathy to Compassion, Moral Reasoning and Moral Foundations,” written with Professor Emeritus Dennis Wittmer, published in Frontiers in Psychology. Read more about their research.
Neil Pollard
Cohort 5
Was one of 20 doctoral students nationally accepted into the 2024 USASBE Doctoral Consortium for Teaching and Learning in Entrepreneurship. Each participant will work with a team on an entreprenurship education project with one of the editors from Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy.
Cynthia Arthur
Cohort 4
Had her article “Technological Acquisitions: The Impact of Innovation on Stock Performance,” written with Teaching Associate Professor Irina Khindanova, PhD, accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Business and Economics.
Daniels Newsroom
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Daniels Students Advance their Careers through Alumni Advisory Board Endowed Scholarship
Increasing Empathy Through Technology
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