If faculty know of any exceptional students that might be interested, please pass along this message and kindly ask them to join us for one of our two virtual open houses on Wednesday, October 15
th at 12pm (12.00) Eastern Time or Monday, October 20
th at 7pm (19.00) Eastern Time. Please email Prof. Joe Labianca (
glabianca@umass.edu) for the link and to register for the events.
Seeking New Ph.D. Students in Management Department
Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst – the flagship campus of the UMass system
Are you passionately curious about how organizations operate and how they can reshape our world? Our Ph.D. in Management prepares you for a rewarding and impactful career as a management scholar and professor engaged in research, teaching, and consulting.
We are recruiting exceptional students for our Ph.D. program in Management, with courses beginning in Fall 2026. Applications are currently being accepted; the final deadline is December 15, 2025.
What Distinguishes Our Program?
• World-class faculty engaged in leading-edge scholarship and scholarly journal editing with many years of proven ability to develop doctoral students in a supportive environment and help them establish great, meaningful careers
• Full-time, year-round, on-campus program with exceptional levels of interaction with your faculty mentors employing a team-on-individual-student mentoring approach
• An innovative new, contemporary curriculum for all Management Ph.D. students employing a mix of courses and modules and a choice between one of two concentration tracks, allowing you to pursue your passion for knowledge, while still being able to work with faculty involved in a diverse set of intra-organizational, inter-organizational, and societal topics:
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Organization Studies (research topics and courses: examining diverse workplaces, organization and management roles in promoting social and environmental justice, leading organizations, exploring conflict and emotions in organizations, organizational ethics, designing better organizations using formal and informal structure; social network analysis)
https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/programs/doctoral/admissions. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Apply here
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Strategic Management (research topics and courses: innovation, human capital resources, knowledge management, entrepreneurship, sustainability, emerging economies, decision-making, corporate governance, competitive advantage, international management)
https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/programs/doctoral/admissions. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Apply here
• Five years of guaranteed stipend and tuition waiver funding, allowing you sufficient time to complete your dissertation and obtain your dream job. Students are also very well-resourced for their travel and research expenses.
Faculty
Our faculty focuses on developing positive mentoring relationships with each student and inviting them into a collaborative scholarly community. Students engage intensively in collaborative projects with faculty members beginning in their first year in order to develop well-rounded research, teaching, and consulting skills.
Our faculty have placed former students at some of the world's best universities. Their research has been published in the management field's top scholarly journals, has won numerous awards, and has been used by a wide variety of organizations to make important decisions. They serve on the editorial boards and as editors of the best academic journals and play influential leadership roles in various divisions of the Academy of Management.
Management Faculty Profiles:
https://www.ulyatsolmon.com/. Click or tap if you trust this link.">Ulya Tsolmon
(Ph.D., Duke) – gender gap; organizational structure; corporate strategy
About Amherst
UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, sits on nearly 1,450 acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The Town of Amherst gracefully combines colonial charm with the vigor of one of New England's major educational centers, the Five College Consortium: Smith, Hampshire, Amherst, and Mount Holyoke Colleges and The University of Massachusetts Amherst. This area of Western Massachusetts offers an exhilarating degree of social, cultural and recreational diversity.
If you are interested in our program, please contact the Management Ph.D. Program Coordinator, Prof. Joe (Giuseppe) Labianca at
glabianca@umass.edu, for more information.
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