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Washington University's Olin Business School is one of the nation's leading research institutions, with a faculty whose research productivity consistently ranks among the highest in the business school community. Olin faculty members are recognized the world over for their important contributions to the creation of new knowledge. We also take great pride in our commitment to excellence in teaching.

Our PhD students are guided by highly productive researchers who are among the nation's top scholars. Faculty work closely with students to help them hone their research skills, often building one-on-one mentoring relationships that include the co-authoring of research papers.

The development of strong problem-solving skills equips our students to strategically address complex, unstructured business issues that result in innovative thinking and new ideas for research that have value to the academic community and application in the business world.

Olin's PhD program in business provides the following:

  • A challenging core curriculum and a strong background in basic disciplines
  • An emphasis on collaborative relationships between faculty and students, which enhances the educational process and the search for the student's first faculty appointment
  • Personalized advising for the successful completion of PhD program requirements and for a customized course of study that fits the student's particular area of interest
  • A collegial network built on mutual respect and a shared school of thought
  • A competitive edge in the business education market
Contact:Jessica Hatch
Phone:314-935-6340
Email:jessica.hatch@wustl.edu
Website:http://olin.wustl.edu/EN-US/academic-programs/PhD

Dean

Mark Taylor
Donald Danforth Jr. Distinguished Professor of Finance
PhD, Birbeck College, University of London

Endowed Professors

Nicholas S. Argyres
Vernon W. and Marion K. Piper Professor of Strategy
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

William P. Bottom
Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J. Stuart Bunderson
George and Carol Bauer Professor of Organizational Ethics and Governance
PhD, University of Minnesota

Siddhartha Chib
Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

Kurt T. Dirks
Bank of America Professor of Managerial Leadership
PhD, University of Minnesota

Philip H. Dybvig
Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance
PhD, Yale University

Hillary Anger Elfenbein
John K. Wallace Jr. and Ellen A. Wallace Distinguished Professor
PhD, Harvard University

Richard M. Frankel
Beverly and James Hance Professor of Accounting
PhD, Stanford University

Mahendra Gupta
Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and Management
PhD, Stanford University

Barton H. Hamilton
Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship
PhD, Stanford University

Ohad Kadan
H. Frederick Hagemann, Jr. Professor of Finance
PhD, Hebrew University

Anne Marie Knott
Robert and Barbara Frick Professor of Business
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Panos Kouvelis
Emerson Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management
PhD, Stanford University

Hong Liu
Fossett Distinguished Professor in Finance
PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Glenn M. MacDonald
John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Strategy
PhD, University of Rochester

Judi McLean Parks
Reuben C. and Anne Carpenter Taylor Professor of Organizational Behavior
PhD, University of Iowa

Todd T. Milbourn
Hubert C. and Dorothy R. Moog Professor of Finance
PhD, Indiana University

Jackson A. Nickerson
Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Stephen M. Nowlis
August A. Busch Jr. Distinguished Professor of Marketing
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Robert A. Pollak
Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P.B. (Seethu) Seetharaman
W. Patrick McGinnis Professor of Marketing
PhD, Cornell University

Anjan Thakor
John E. Simon Professor of Finance
PhD, Northwestern University

Fuqiang Zhang
Dan Broida Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management
PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Guofu Zhou
Frederick Bierman and James E. Spears Professor of Finance
PhD, Duke University

Professors

Tat Y. Chan
PhD, Yale University
(Marketing)

Lingxiu Dong
PhD, Stanford University
(Operations and Manufacturing Management)

Radhakrishnan Gopalan
PhD, University of Michigan
(Finance)

Andrew P. Knight
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
(Organizational Behavior)

Robyn LeBoeuf
PhD, Princeton University
(Marketing)

Xiumin Martin
PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia
(Accounting)

J. Lamar Pierce
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
(Strategy)

Stephen Ryan
PhD, Duke University
(Economics)

Associate Professors

Mariagiovanna Baccara
PhD, Princeton University
(Economics)

Markus Baer
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Organizational Behavior)

Cynthia Cryder
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
(Marketing)

Daniel Elfenbein
PhD, Harvard University
(Organization and Strategy)

Armando Gomes
PhD, Harvard University
(Finance)

Todd Gormley
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Finance)

Brett Green
PhD, Stanford University
(Economics)

Jared Jennings
PhD, University of Washington
(Accounting)

Baojun Jiang
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
(Marketing)

Mark Leary
PhD, Duke University
(Finance)

Asaf Manela
PhD, University of Chicago
(Finance)

Raphael Thomadsen
PhD, Stanford University
(Marketing)

Elanor Williams
PhD, Cornell University
(Psychology)

Song Yao
PhD, Duke University
(Business Administration)

Minyuan Zhao
PhD, New York University
(Economics)

Assistant Professors

Deniz Aydin
PhD, Stanford University
(Finance)

Taylor Begley
PhD, University of Michigan
(Finance)

Seth Carnahan
PhD, University of Maryland
(Strategy)

Kimball Chapman
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
(Accounting)

Kaitlin Daniels
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
(Operations Management)

Jennifer Dlugosz
PhD, Harvard University
(Finance)

Jason Donaldson
PhD, London School of Economics
(Finance)

Jacob Feldman
PhD, Cornell University
(Operations and Manufacturing Management)

Tarek Ghani
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
(Business Administration)

Daniel Gottlieb
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Economics)

Emily Grijalva
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Chad Ham
PhD, University of Maryland
(Accounting)

Ashley Hardin
PhD, University of Michigan
(Organizational Behavior)

Xing Huang
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
(Finance)

Xiang Hui
PhD, Ohio State University
(Marketing)

Zachary Kaplan
PhD, University of Chicago
(Accounting)

Jeongmin Lee
PhD, University of Maryland
(Finance)

Zawadi Lemayian
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Accounting)

Paulo Natenzon
PhD, Princeton University
(Economics)

Yulia Nevskaya
PhD, University of Rochester
(Marketing)

Hannah Perfecto
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
(Marketing)

MaryJane Rabier
PhD, University of Maryland
(Accounting)

Iva Rashkova
PhD, London Business School
(Management Science and Operations)

Sydney Scott
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
(Marketing)

Janis Skrastins
PhD, London Business School
(Finance)

Ulya Tsolmon
PhD, Duke University
(Strategy)

Dennis Zhang
PhD, Northwestern University
(Operations and Manufacturing Management)

Professors of Practice

Peter Boumgarden
PhD, Washington University
(Organizational Behavior)

Samuel S. Chun
PhD, Washington University
(Marketing)

Jeremy Degenhart
BS, BA, Washington University
(Finance)

John Horn
PhD, Harvard University
(Economics)

Lee J. Konczak
PhD, University of Missouri-St. Louis
(Organizational Behavior and Leadership Development)

Patrick Moreton
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
(Strategy and Management)

Patrick Rishe
PhD, Binghamton University
(Sports Business)

Timothy Solberg
University of Chicago
(Sports Business)

Doug Villhard
MA, Boston University
(Communications)

Michael Wall
Indiana University
(Marketing)

Sergio Chayet
PhD, Northwestern University
(Operations and Manufacturing Management)

Charles J. Cuny
PhD, Stanford University
(Finance)

Thomas D. Fields
PhD, Northwestern University
(Accounting)

Ronald R. King
Lecturer in Accounting
PhD, University of Arizona

Konstantina Kiousis
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
(Business Administration)

Gary Lin
PhD, University of Florida
(Data Analytics)

David R. Meyer
PhD, University of Chicago
(Management)

Chakravarthi Narasimhan
Lecturer in Marketing
PhD, University of Rochester

Richard Palmer
PhD, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
(Business Administration)

Eli M. Snir
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
(Data Analytics)

Mark E. Soczek
PhD, Northwestern University
(Accounting)

Raymond T. Sparrowe
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
(Organizational Behavior)

Durai Sundaramoorthi
PhD, University of Texas at Arlington
(Data Analytics)

Lecturers

Mohammadhossein Amini
PhD, Kansas State University
(Industrial Engineering)

Cathy Dunkin
BA, University of Missouri-Columbia
(Management)

Samira Fazel
PhD, Wayne State University
(Industrial Engineering)

Ivan Lapuka
PhD, University of South Florida
(Marketing)

Staci Thomas
MA, Webster University
(Communications)

Adjunct and Other Faculty

Pier Alsup
MS, Webster University
(Marketing)

John Althoff
BS, University of Missouri-St. Louis
(Accounting)

Amy Altholz
MBA, Washington University
(Accounting)

Yossi Aviv
PhD, Columbia University
(Operations Manufacturing and Management)

Richard Batsell
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
(Marketing)

Karen Bedell
MBA, Saint Louis University
(Management)

Anatoliy Belaygorod
PhD, Washington University
(Finance)

Patricia Bland
JD, University of Missouri, Kansas City
(Management)

Alex Borchert
BS, Washington University
(Finance)

Spencer Burke
JD, University of Pennsylvania
(Management)

David Butler
MBA, Washington University
(Health Care Management)

Amy Choy
PhD, Washington University
(Accounting)

Robert Collins
MBA, Harvard Business School

Yoni Danieli
MBA, Northwestern University
(Organizational Behavior)

Jim Deutsch
MA, Webster University
(Finance)

William R. Emmons
PhD, Northwestern University
(Finance)

Peter S. Finley
MBA, Stanford University
(Entrepreneurship)

Ronald K. Fisher
JD, Washington University
(Labor and Employment Laws)

Hans Fredrikson
MBA, University of Chicago
(Finance)

David Fritsch
MBA, Washington University
(Business Administration)

Michael R. Gordinier
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(Management)

Bruce Lee Hall
PhD, MD, Duke University
(Health Care Management)

Carol F. Johanek
MBA, Saint Louis University
(Marketing)

Al Kent
BSBA, Tennessee Technical University
(Accounting)

Sarah Luem
JD, Saint Louis University
(Management)

Steven Malter
PhD, University of Missouri-St. Louis
(Management)

Mary Mason
MD, Washington University
(Management)

Tom McCain
MBA, Washington University
(Management)

Paul W. Paese
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Organizational Behavior)

David Pearson
DBA, Indiana University
(Accounting)

Jeff Plunkett
JD, Saint Louis University
(Accounting)

David A. Poldoian
MBA, Harvard University
(Entrepreneurship)

Kristin Poole
MS, Saint Louis University
(Finance)

Robert A. Portnoy
PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia
(Human Resource Management)

Casey Quinn
MBA, Washington University
(Health Care Management)

Richard Ryffel
MBA, Boston University
(Finance)

Anthony Sardella
MBA, Northwestern University
(Management)

Mark Sophir
JD, University of Texas School of Law
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Ted Stann
(Finance)

Michael Stohler
BS, Bellarmine College
(Economics)

Cynthia A. Wichelman
MD, Stanford University
(Business and Medicine)

Robert Zafft
JD, Harvard University
(Law)

Professors Emeriti

Nicholas Baloff
(Business and Public Administration)

Stuart I. Greenbaum
Former Dean and Bank of America Professor Emeritus of Managerial Leadership
PhD, Johns Hopkins University

James T. Little
Donald Danforth Jr. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Business
PhD, University of Minnesota

Ambar Rao
Fossett Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Marketing

J. George Robinson
Professor Emeritus of Marketing

Robert L. Virgil Jr.
Dean Emeritus of the John M. Olin Business School and Professor Emeritus of Accounting

John E. Walsh Jr.
(Management)

PhD in Business Administration

PhD students must complete 36 credit units; maintain satisfactory academic progress; pass certain examinations; fulfill residence and teaching requirements; and write, defend and submit a dissertation.

Upon the successful completion of business PhD study, the student is awarded a PhD from the Graduate School at Washington University.

Core Foundation

  • A strong foundation in microeconomics or psychology, probability & statistics, and quantitative methods
  • Exposure to the student's area of specialization and the required research tools
  • Successful completion of the core exam

Specialization

  • Courses in one or more areas of study
  • In-depth knowledge in the chosen field
  • Active association with the research process through faculty mentoring
  • Completion of the field exam

Research

  • Participation with faculty in research activities
  • Research paper presentation
  • Individual research pursuing a specialized topic of interest
  • Preparation and defense of the dissertation
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