Management Department
Isenberg’s Management program equips students with the creative problem-solving skills necessary to understand and plan for change.
Charles C. Manz
Nirenberg Chaired Professor of Business Leadership
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Research
Our program offers access to a unique group of world-class faculty specializing in the following research topics:
- Strategic Human Capital
- Human Resource Management
- Person-Organization Fit
- Diversity
- Leadership
- Corporate Social Responsibility Practices
- Social Identity, Sensemaking Processes and Organizational Change
- Sustainability
- The influence of Culture and Values
- The contributions of Feminist Theorizing
Degree Timeline
Students must take 45 credits of coursework, building foundational knowledge in Organization Studies and Research Methods before taking advanced courses. The program includes a summer paper and first year portfolio, a colloquium, a comprehensive examination, a 2-year teaching requirement and a dissertation.
YEAR 1: Coursework, including foundational courses; Summer paper; Colloquium; First Year Portfolio
YEAR 2: Coursework, including core courses, research electives and minor area courses; Colloquium; Comprehensive exam
YEAR 3: Additional coursework as needed; Development of dissertation proposal; Teaching
YEAR 4: Dissertation; Teaching
Anurag Sharma
Associate Professor
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Cognate Areas
Our program is designed to be an integrative discipline that draws extensively from such fields as organizational theory, organizational behavior, and industrial organization economics. Major topics within the field include:
- Competitive advantage
- Dynamic capabilities
- Corporate governance
- Sustainable strategies
- Strategic decision-making
- Corporate entrepreneurship
Degree Timeline
Students must take 45 credits of coursework, which seminars in organizational theory and organizational behavior, as well as statistics, methods and elective courses. Students must pass both a qualifying and comprehensive examination, take a professional colloquium course, write and defend a dissertation, and teach at Isenberg.
YEAR 1: Coursework, including statistics, research methods and theory courses, and research electives; Qualifying exam; Colloquium
YEAR 2: Coursework, including core courses, research electives and minor area courses; Comprehensive exam; Colloquium
YEAR 3: Additional coursework as needed; Development of dissertation proposal; Teaching
YEAR 4: Dissertation
Stephen Brand
Associate Director, Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship & Lecturer, Management
Jennifer Merton
Associate Chair, Law Lecturer Coordinator, & Senior Lecturer , Management
Bruce Skaggs
Academic Coordinator, Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, Chair & Professor, Management
Gregory Thomas
Executive Director, Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship & Lecturer, Management
