Financial/Managerial/Behavioral Acct.

This course will focus on empirical financial, managerial and behavioral accounting research. The source for course readings and assignments is current peer-reviewed academic journals. The emphasis will be on accounting policy, both internal and external to the firm, and organizational and human decision making aspects of accounting research in organizations.

Special Topics in Accounting

This course will cover empirical research in various specialized areas of accounting, which may include taxation, international accounting issues, accounting information systems, agency, advance managerial issues of performance evaluation, and various other topics covered in the major academic accounting journals. This course is designed for an advanced student in accounting who plans on pursuing an accounting-related dissertation.

Effective University Teaching

This course introduces the student to current research in the areas of learning and teaching methodologies by examining different learning paradigms and theories and how these are applied at the college and university level. Students research in and apply the tools and skills needed to teach in a college or university environment. Topics include responding to how students learn what they learn with curriculum and course development, syllabus preparation, delivery mechanisms, use of technology, and student and teacher assessment/evaluation.

Dissertation Proposal Seminar

This seminar is the first step towards the dissertation proposal development process. Students will work in the development of a complete dissertation prospectus (approximately a 20-30 pages) in the standard format containing the specifications required for doctoral research in Business Administration and have it approved by their instructor. If the students plan to use the prospectus to encourage academics to serve as chairs of their dissertations, the students will be guided in this process. This seminar must be taken in the student's final session of course work in the Ph.D. in Business Administration program.

PhD Dissertation Series

The Dissertation Continuation courses must be taken every session in order for students to maintain their active status in the doctoral program. The 700 series courses will be 4 credit courses and will appear in a separate section on the student's transcript dedicated to the dissertation. While enrolled in the 700 series courses and until completion of the dissertation, students will receive grades of "PR" signifying satisfactory progress upon a showing of actual progress in the dissertation. Four (4) semester credits will be awarded to each PR grade; however, credits earned towards 700 series courses will NOT be included in overall GPA calculation. Students will submit progress reports at the end of each session while enrolled in the 700 series courses. The student's progress will be determined by the dissertation chair and/or the Director of the Ph.D. program. Upon completion of the dissertation and successful defense of the dissertation a final grade will be assigned to the final 700 series course. Students are expected to complete the dissertation and the program by the end of 711.

Dissertation Continuation

On an individual case-by-case basis, students unable to complete the program by 711 may be permitted to continue in the program if there is an expectation of completion of the program in a reasonable time or where extenuating circumstances prevented timely completion. If approved, students may continue with the Dissertation Continuation courses 712 and beyond taking a course every session in order to maintain their active status in the doctoral program. Similar to 700-711, courses 712 and beyond will be 4 credit courses and will appear in a separate section on the student's transcript dedicated to the dissertation. Students will continue to receive grades of "PR" signifying satisfactory progress upon a showing of actual progress in the dissertation. Students will submit progress reports at the end of each session while enrolled. Upon completion of the dissertation and successful defense of the dissertation a final grade will be assigned to the final 700 series course.  

Studies in Corporate Finance

This elective, non-Horizon Live course is a broad overview of some of the major topics in corporate finance research. The first two modules focus on the decision-making environment that executives face regarding financial policy. This includes the laws concerning corporate governance and how they affect decision making. This also includes a comprehensive overview of managerial incentives and the agency theories that attempt to predict how management will set policy. The remaining modules focus on research in some key areas of corporate policy – capital structure, diversification, and dividend policy. Course Description: Students will explore the current academic research involving corporate laws and governance, agency theories, dividend policy, capital structure policy, and corporate diversification. Students will prepare an empirical research study related to corporate finance theory.

Topics in Finance

This course will cover empirical research in various specialized areas of finance, which may include international/comparative finance, empirical asset pricing and valuation, entrepreneurial finance, ethical considerations in finance, and various other topics covered in the major academic finance journals. This course is designed for an advanced student in finance who plans on pursuing a finance-related dissertation.

Foundations of Information Systems

This course will introduce students with scholarly research on information technology management and organizations. Students will discuss the trends in information systems (IS) research with a historical perspective. Students will be exposed with classic theories, methodological approaches, and streams of research covered in the major academic journals in the IS literature. This course is designed for an advanced student in the doctoral program in Business Administration with the concentration in Information Technology Management.

Seminar in Info. Sys. & Info. Tech Mgmt

This course will explore the current academic research of the impact of information systems on the global market and society. Students will also learn modern research methods in data collection and analysis. This course is designed for an advanced student in the doctoral program in Business Administration with the concentration in Information Technology Management.

Special Topics in Info. Tech. Mgmt.

This course is an in-depth exploration of the interactions among information systems, organizations and society. Students will review the current theoretical and methodological streams of research in the field. This course is designed for an advanced student in the doctoral program in Business Administration with the concentration in Information Technology Management.

Strategic Management

This Ph.D. level seminar in strategic management focuses on an overview of the field. The basic literature and research is examined. This course focuses upon scholarly works as the basis of study, and as such, the student will also be required to conceptualize and write a scholarly research proposal in strategic management.

Special Topics in Management

This course will address research in various specialized areas of management, which may include ethics, social cognition, and conflict management and negotiation, as well as various other topics covered in the major academic management journals. This course is designed for an advanced student in management who plans on pursuing a management-related dissertation.

Marketing Management Strategy

Study of research issues associated with marketing management decisions. Recent research in the areas of strategic marketing, marketing segmentation, new product development and introduction, pricing strategies, channel policy, promotion decisions, and sales force management decisions are examined, critically. The course includes both quantitative and behavioral approaches to studying these issues.

Buyer Decision-Making and Behavior

This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the foundational principles and prevalent practices of buyer behavior and decision-making including both consumer and industrial categories. Following the theme that the interaction of what a firm offers and how it is offered coupled with what a buyer wants and needs leads to satisfaction, that satisfaction leads to loyalty, and that loyalty leads to profitability, academic articles in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Consumer Marketing, the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and others are used as a basis for study and application. This course is designed for an advanced student in marketing who plans on pursuing a marketing-related dissertation.

Special Topics in Marketing

This course will address empirical research in various specialized areas of marketing, which may include buyer behavior, brand management, international marketing and globalization, marketing research, marketing models, new product development, innovation management, implications of new technologies on the marketing mix, and various other topics covered in the major academic marketing journals. This course is designed for an advanced student in marketing who plans on pursuing a marketing-related dissertation.

Organizational Studies I

This course introduces students to the philosophical foundations and controversies of science related to the field of business administration and its sub-disciplines. The module topics are interrelated and build upon each other, with the nature and role of theory as a central theme. Module 1 examines the controversy about the relationship between business practice and academic, theory-based research. Module two focuses on epistemology, ontology, and alternative research paradigms that provide the philosophical foundations for the nature of theory. Module 3 explores the contexts for the evolution of theory-based schools of thought, and Module 4 focuses on the nature of theory itself. Module 5 addresses the nature and level of theory development in relation to the "fit" of research associated with different paradigms. Course readings are drawn from the diversity of disciplines related to the field of management/organizations/business administration.

Organizational Studies II

This course synthesizes major topics and perspectives in Organization Theory. This course is required for all CBA PhD students. It develops a foundation for research in organizations, strategic management, organizational information systems, and other related disciplines of management. The course will focus on organization level issues, such as design, technology, organizational learning, change, and decision making, as well as on perspectives on the relationships between organization and environment. Empirical research drawing on Institutional, Resource Dependence, Population Ecology, and Transaction Costs theories will be reviewed.

Organizational Change

The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the scholarly work in the area of organizational change. Students will learn research methods unique to the study of processes of change, review key theoretical frameworks describing the elements of change, and develop a research proposal to examine change in a context of the student's choosing. The course will stress the development of critical and analytical skills through review of the academic literature.

Introductory Data Analysis

This course introduces doctoral students to the analysis of the behavioral research data that will underlie much of the content in the program, as well their own research efforts culminating in the dissertation. Starting with the basic definitions of data and data distributions and the concept of variance in interval and ordinal variables and leading through concepts of randomness and probability of behavioral phenomena, students gain practice in defining well-formed research questions and hypotheses, assessing relationships between two variables including regression and correlation and contingency tables. The course concludes with a basic introduction to research design, emphasizing strong and weak inferences of causality and the distinction between experimental methods, quasi-experimentation, and non-experimental research. Students will be introduced to SPSS throughout this course.

Research Design & Fieldwork

Continuing the themes of RES600, this course begins with a detailed introduction to regression models and their uses and misuses in the behavioral sciences. The second module deals with operational definition of variables, construction of measures and scales, and reliability and validity issues; the third with sampling procedures and alternatives; required sample sizes for different kinds of analysis; and statistical power, including interactions of power, sample size, and effect size. Module 4 introduces the General Linear Model and the essential equivalence of most variance-based statistical methods. The course concludes with a further treatment of regression modeling, including the estimation of direct and indirect effects and ways of estimating both mediating and moderating effects in testing of complex models. Students will continue to use SPSS throughout this course.

Adv. Data Mgmt. & Analysis

Res603 is an in depth study of research logistics and research designs (including experiments, quasi-experiments, observational and archival studies, and secondary analysis), survey layout and design (including creating and using multi-item scales), exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and the general linear model (including ANOVA, MANOVA, and ANCOVA)

Advanced Multivariate Data Analysis

This course examines the application and interpretation of advanced quantitative research methods and techniques for effective explanation and presentation of the results of such research. Topics include advanced regression techniques and effect size estimation, structural equation modeling and related latent variable estimation procedures, and advanced scaling, clustering, and factor structure estimation procedures. Opportunities for the study of specialized research tools possibly including but not limited to bootstrapping, time series analyses, multi-level research methods, social network analysis, and advanced multivariate experimental estimation techniques will also be provided as needed.

Current Research in Bus. & Mgmt.

This course explores and analyzes recent research studies in the fields of business and management in light of the major theories, methodological approaches, and practical applications that shape them. Students develop skills in examining and critiquing research on and in organizations, and understanding of the process and practicality of doing such research, attending to levels of analysis and inference as well as data collection, measurement, and analysis. Each term, a diverse set of current research articles and studies will be analyzed to raise questions about how different research topics have been addressed and how they might be used to stimulate future studies. Students are encouraged to identify gaps in selected areas of research, as a basis for refining their selection of dissertation topics.

Directed Study in Research Methods

Directed Study in Research Methods