Our PhD students draw on diverse personal and professional backgrounds to pursue an ever-expanding range of research topics. Learn about each of the program requirements and curriculum, read student profiles as well as student research, and placement information.

Our graduates go on to research and teaching positions at the world’s leading business schools and universities, while advising top corporations, nonprofits, and policy organizations. Some of the greatest intellectual challenges of our time are emerging from …

Jointly administered by HBS and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Ph.D. in business administration grounds students in disciplinary theories and methods and trains them to apply these theories and methods in academic research on important business problems.

The Business Economics PhD program is offered jointly with the Economics Department at Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Business School. This PhD program trains you for research and teaching careers at business schools, discipline departments, and governmental agencies.

Harvard Griffin GSAS has offered PhD programs in collaboration with HBS since 1916. In addition to business administration, Harvard Griffin GSAS and HBS collaborate on programs in business economics, organizational behavior, and health policy (management track).

Our PhD programs train students to produce innovative, rigorous, and relevant research and encourage students to become exemplary teachers at top-tier institutions of higher learning. Our programs have continuously evolved to reflect the needs of students, respond to changes in the field, and remain true to our mission.

Applications for Fall 2026 will open in September! Our PhD programs train students to produce innovative, rigorous, and relevant research and encourage students to become exemplary teachers at top-tier institutions of higher learning.

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Harvard Business School. Jointly administered by HBS and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, students in the program are both economics and business school students, receiving the benefits of a PhD from Harvard’s world-class Economics Department along with specialized access to HBS faculty and resources.

The PhD in Business Administration grounds students in the disciplinary theories and research methods that form the foundation of an academic career. Jointly administered by HBS and GSAS, the program has four areas of study: Accounting and Management , Marketing , Strategy , and Technology and Operations Management .