PhD.Specializations
Specializations
You focus on your own, specialized field of academic interest from the moment you set foot on campus.
Whatever your specialization, you will acquire solid empirical research skills through constant mentoring and deep interaction with faculty, and the chance to contribute to research projects led by 天美传媒 professors.
The areas of specialization offered by the 天美传媒 doctoral program are the following:
Research and teaching in Accounting at 天美传媒 is the responsibility of the Accounting and Control Department. Professors work closely together with 天美传媒 doctoral students across a very broad range of topics, including, for example: economic theory and econometrics, financial reporting, regulatory enforcement, corporate governance, managerial accounting, internal control systems, accounting conservatism, fair value, accounting-based business analysis and valuation, executive compensation, corporate governance, corporate disclosure, regulatory enforcement, performance measurement, management control systems.
You will be closely working with our faculty on research projects aimed at publication in the premier journals such as:
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Research Interests: Financial and Disclosure Regulation, Disclosure, Corporate Governance, Debt Contracting
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
Research Interests: Voluntary Disclosure, Institutional Ownership, Executive Compensation, Equity Analysts
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
Research Interests: Executive compensation, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Financial regulation and enforcement, Governance intermediaries, Sustainable finance, Banking
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
Research Interests: Accounting Attributes: Conservatism, Fair value, etc., Earnings management and accounting discretion, Corporate Governance, Corporate Disclosure, International accounting (IFRS and US GAAP)
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
Business is not merely a realm for profit maximizing; it is also a human reality. As such, human excellence can manifest itself in the decisions and conduct of individuals and organizations.
Our Department of Business Ethics is committed to highlighting ethics as essential to and at the core of business activity and decision-making. The complexities of a global and dynamic business world, where non-economic and economic concerns coexist, give ethics a vital role in guiding human action, always with the potential for human excellence in mind.
Our Business Ethics Department research is bringing the most recent and influential ideas in business ethics to the academic and business community, PhD students can do research across a very broad diversity of topic areas. Together with our professors, you will explore areas such as:
鈥� Ethical Foundations of Management
鈥� Corporate Social Responsibility
鈥� Corporate Corruption
鈥� Fraud
鈥� Humanism in Economics and Business
鈥� Ethical foundations of management
鈥� The role of business in society
鈥� Corporate social responsibility
鈥� Ethics and decision-making
鈥� Humanism in organizational cultures
鈥� Corporate corruption and fraud
You will be closely working with our faculty on research projects aimed at publication in the premier journals such as 听辞谤听.
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Areas of interest:听 Corporate social responsibility, Business ethics policies and practices, Anthropological and ethical foundations for management, Ethics in decision-making, Business and society relations
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Areas of interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Compliance and security management
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Entrepreneurship research is an interdisciplinary field at 天美传媒, drawing upon theories and insights in economics, sociology, psychology, and general management.
The 天美传媒 Entrepreneurship Department conducts research and pursue questions related to a variety of topics in the context of entrepreneurship and corporate across macro, meso and micro levels. You will explore a number of key issues:
鈥� How do entrepreneurs obtain resources for new ventures?
鈥� How does founding teams composition affect firm performance?
鈥� How do start-ups grow?
鈥� What is the role of opportunity identification, evaluation, and exploitation within the entrepreneurial process?
鈥� How do entrepreneurs use business models as a tool to innovate and gain competitive advantages?
鈥� How do firms learn and innovate?
You will be closely working with our faculty on research projects aimed at publication in the premier journals such as , , , , .
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Areas of interest: 听Business Model Innovation, Entrepreneurship in Established Firms, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Innovation Strategy, New Business Opportunities,听 Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Areas of interest: He focuses on how established and emerging firms manage technological change and the strategies firms pursue to develop and commercialize new technologies. Strategic Entrepreneurship, Technology Innovation, Inter-organizational partnerships
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
His research focuses on the governance of privately held entrepreneurial firms, with a particular interest in family firms and private equity. His current research centers on how private equity minority investments can contribute to the performance of family firms, and on the relationship between private firm governance and the development of firm-specific human capital.
Areas of interest: Corporate governance, Entrepreneurship, Family firms, Private equity
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prof. Pacheco鈥檚 research interests relate to the interface between institutions, entrepreneurship, and firm strategy.听 She applies these areas of research to the study of sustainable business.听 She is particularly interested in the strategies that entrepreneurs undertake to bring about institutional change, such as changes in policies, industry practices, and norms.听 She also studies the effect of social movement activism on emerging industries and the new ventures that operate within them, and the ability of emerging industries to drive cultural shifts.
Areas of interest: Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Institutional Change and Entrepreneurship, Social Movements and Entrepreneurship
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research and teaching in Finance at 天美传媒 is the responsibility of the Financial Management Department. Professors work closely together with 天美传媒 doctoral students across a very broad range of topics, including, for example:
鈥� Real estate and corporate finance. Understanding how the world of real estate works, and how it affects financial decisions in a company.
鈥� Banking the structure of financial institutions, the access to finance, and how they implement coherent monetary policies.
鈥� Empirical finance, investments and institutional investors. How institutional investors shape stock prices in the financial markets.
鈥� Corporate governance and executive compensation. How shareholders control with their votes the executive compensation of managers and the governance decisions in the firm.
鈥� Mergers and acquisitions, on what triggers M&A deals and how to measure synergies and value added.
You will be closely working with our faculty on research projects aimed at publication in the premier journals such as ,听,听,听,听,听,听.
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Prof. Gin茅 is currently investigating how common ownership of institutional shareholders impacts the corporate decisions of companies in their portfolio.
Areas of interest: Corporate governance, Shareholder Activism and M&A, 听Executive compensation, Empirical corporate finance, Fintech
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
Prof. Ant贸n鈥檚 principal areas of academic and research activity include empirical asset pricing, the impact of institutional trading in asset prices, mutual fund performance, contagion in credit markets, and determinants of systemic risk.
Areas of interest: Empirical Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance, Mutual Funds, Credit Markets, 听Systemic Risk
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
Prof. Eufinger鈥檚 research interests include the foundations of interbank markets, the interaction of banks鈥� capital structure and investment choices, the corporate governance of banks, banking regulation, and the channels through which banks exert an influence on the real economy.
Areas of interest: Banking, Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Valuation
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
Prof. Valentina Raponi鈥檚 current work include financial econometrics, asset pricing and portfolio choice, econometric theory and machine learning.
Areas of interest: Financial Econometrics, Empirical asset pricing, Asset pricing anomalies, Portfolio Choice, Econometric Theory, Machine Learning
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
His areas of interest include: Asset valuation, Real estate finance, Risk management, Term structuring models, Real options
His fields of interest are industrial organization and regulation, the economics of information, and banking and financial economics. Research interests: Dynamic games of complementarities, Innovation and competition, Banking crisis and regulation,, Information and financial markets, Competition policy,听 The location of headquarters
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
Research at the Managerial Decision Sciences Department comprises both statistical decision theory and the study of decision making from a broader organizational perspective. Some current research topics of professors at this department include:
鈥� Value-based theory
鈥� Derivative pricing with stochastic volatility
鈥� Macroeconomic uncertainty
鈥� Models of time and uncertainty
鈥� Organizational decision making
鈥� Macroeconomic uncertainty
鈥� Business performance metrics
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His work focuses on the performance, the psychology, and the rationality of people鈥檚 decision making. He has studied how people can learn from others about their own preferences, and how leveraging a variety of individual learning experiences can improve team decisions.
Other research interests: Behavioral Economics, Decision Theory, Learning and Information Processing, Prediction and Forecasting, Risk and Uncertainty
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Managing people forms an integral part of any organisational activity, and understanding what individual, interpersonal, and contextual factors influence how people behave and collaborate towards organisational objectives goes to the heart of management. To that end, the Managing People in Organisations Department, the largest department at 天美传媒, takes a wide and interdisciplinary approach to studying people management issues, ranging from micro-organisational psychology to macro perspectives such as organisational theory, sociology and HR management.
The MPO department works closely together with the 天美传媒 doctoral students on cutting-edge research related to specific areas such as:
鈥� Diversity and multicultural management
鈥� Leadership, teams, power
鈥� Global mobility and forms of global work
鈥� Strategic HRM and human capital development
鈥� Coaching
鈥� Organisational change
鈥� Work and family balance
鈥� Alliance and coalition formation
鈥� Knowledge transfer
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Sebastien Brion focuses on the psychological effects of power, particularly its acquisition, maintenance, and loss within groups and organizations.
Areas of interest: Power and influence, Formation of alliances and coalitions, Groups and teams, Accuracy and bias in interpersonal perception
Prof. Raes鈥� research expertise includes the fields of top management teams, teamwork, self-management, and leadership.
Areas of interest: Top management teams, Relationships between top and middle managers, Teamwork, Temporal dynamics of teamwork
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
His research on judgment and decision-making lies at the intersection of psychology and economics. In particular, he focuses on managerial contexts, ethics, and the role played by social and institutional forces.
Areas of interest: Judgment and Decision making, Behavioral Economics, Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Business Ethics, Institutional Logics
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prof. Reiche鈥檚 research focuses on international assignments and forms of global work, knowledge transfer, talent retention, culture and language in global organizations, and global leadership.
Areas of interest: Global work and global mobility, Talent Development and Retention, Knowledge Transfer, Global Leadership, Cross-Cultural Management,听Trust and Social Capital
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Areas of interest: Personal development, Virtual teams, 听Strategic people management, Global leadership
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Her research examines the underpinnings and consequences of social connections in personal and professional life. What makes new acquaintances and employees click with each other? When and how do relationships with friends and colleagues deepen to such an extent that people feel they have 鈥渕erged minds鈥�? And how do these connections influence employees鈥� work meaningfulness and productivity?
In her work, Maya has introduced the novel construct of Generalized Shared Reality鈥攖he experience of sharing the same thoughts and feelings with an interaction partner about the world鈥攁s a critical catalyst for forging and deepening interpersonal connections. Her ongoing research examines the role of shared reality in improving important organizational outcomes, like work meaningfulness, job satisfaction, and performance. She uses a wide range of methodologies, such as controlled laboratory experiments, organizational field studies, natural language processing, and intensive longitudinal paradigms.
Areas of interest: Shared Reality, Interpersonal Relationships, Social Connection, Conversational dynamics, Work Meaning
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
The Marketing Department at 天美传媒 is young, diverse, and growing. Research-active professors come from a variety of personal and professional backgrounds and pursue a broad spectrum of areas.
鈥� What is the value of a business customer base?
鈥� What strategies and actions can a firm pursue in order to increase it?
鈥� How do consumers process information in a variety of circumstances 鈥� such as information overload, experiential consumption, etc.?
鈥� What textual aspects of reviews determine how useful and influential the review is perceived?
鈥� What is the role of social media? Or neuro-marketing?
Additionally, given 天美传媒鈥檚 long-standing tradition of closeness to business, our professors benefit from access to quantitative and qualitative data from numerous local and international firms.
You will be closely working with our faculty on research projects aimed at publication in the premier journals such as听, or the .
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His research centers in the understanding of how experiential purchases are different from material purchases, and how these differences influence the way consumers evaluate and choose experiences, as opposed to products. Some of the questions I帽igo studies in his research are: how does price influence a decision on an experience differently from a decision on a product? What type of advertising works best for experiences compared to products? How do consumers deal with the uncertainty that is associated with the evaluation of an experiential purchase?
Areas of interest: Consumer Behavior, Decision Making, Word of Mouth, Experiential Purchases, Digital Marketing
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Her research studies the bridge between strategy, decision making, and empirical modeling.
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prof. Reutskaja鈥檚 research lies at the intersection of behavioral insights, decision-making, marketing and economics, with special focus on choice overload, choice architecture, individual and group decision-making, ethical decision-making as well as neuro-marketing. Elena studies how people make decisions in their daily lives from simple choices like snacks to important managerial decisions, and explores the ways to improve those decision and choices using various choice architecture and debiasing tools. 听Elena employs a variety of methods in her research with special focus on decision process-tracing methods, from mouse tracing and eye-tracking to emotion-recognition and brain-imaging.
Areas of interest: Behavioral Insights, Choice Overload, Choice architecture and nudges, Neuromarketing, Cross-cultural Differences, Behavioral Ethics, Dyadic Decisions, Individual Differences
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prof. Valent铆鈥檚 research interests include customer analytics, marketing resource allocation, digital marketing, omnichannel marketing, field experimentation.
Areas of interest: Marketing Analytics, Multichannel Marketing, Digital Marketing, Marketing Resource Allocation
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
The aim of operations management is to organize the delivery of products and services in the best possible way. Our discipline is typically concerned with quantitative decision problems, involving the allocation and control of limited resources. Such problems arise, for example, in the operations of industrial firms, financial institutions, health care organizations, transportation systems, energy resources, and government. To help manage operations, we use mathematical and statistical models, e.g., mathematical programming, optimization, probability theory, statistics or game theory. The Operations, Information and Technology Department explores a broad range of issues including:
鈥� Supply Chain Management
鈥� Retail
鈥� Procurement
鈥� Interface of Operations and Finance
鈥� Service operations
鈥� Healthcare operations
鈥� Production and Inventory Control
鈥� Innovation and Product Development
You will be closely working with our faculty on research projects aimed at publication in the premier journals such as ,听,听,听.
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Prof. Markakis鈥� research focuses on the mobility sector, as well as on inventory and supply chain management.
Areas of interest: Pricing and Revenue Management, Transportation Economics, Inventory and Supply Chain Management
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
His research focusses on supply chain management, where procurement, production and distribution decisions can help companies compete more successfully in the global arena.
Areas of interest: Retail, Supply chain management, Procurement, Innovation and product development
Research Line: Managerial Sciences
Her research interests include social responsibility, sustainability, supply chain management, behavioral operations management, and empirical and experimental operations management. Recently she has been working on visibility and transparency in apparel supply chains, on behavioral biases of managers, on sustainable business models in fashion, on diffusion of diversity initiatives along supply chains, and on consumer attitudes and behavior with regards to environmental issues like recycling, renewable energies, or ecolabeled products.
Areas of interest: Social responsibility, Sustainability, Supply chain management, Behavioral operations management, Empirical and experimental operations management
The Strategic Management Department professor’s research interests span a broad diversity of topics:
鈥� Sustainability
鈥� Innovation
鈥� International business
鈥� Family business
鈥� Strategic alliances
鈥� Competitive strategy
鈥� Globalization
鈥� Cooperative strategies
鈥� Responsible investing
You will be closely working with our faculty on research projects aimed at publication in the premier journals such as , ,听,听.
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His current research explores the emergence of responsible and impact investing in the financial sector.
Areas of interest: Strategy Execution, Responsible Investing, Fashion and Luxury Goods Industry
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Her research interests include the governance and management of interorganizational relationships, with particular emphasis on strategic alliance design and dynamics.
Areas of interest: Cooperative strategies, Strategic alliances
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
His primary research focus is on how categorization processes shape social evaluation and performance of organizations in markets. Another aspect of Romain鈥檚 research draws on his broader interest in questions related to sustainability, using experimental methods and large-scale empirical approaches to explore topics such as the performance of alternative forms of organizing, impact investing and, more broadly, how organizations can integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their strategies.
Areas of interest: Cognitive and Normative Dimensions of Firm Performance, Organization Theory, Sustainability
His research focuses on the economics of strategy and innovation, particularly the relationship between science and industry in the innovation process.
鈥� Innovation strategy
鈥� Competitive and corporate strategy
Massimo鈥檚 research focuses on how social networks impact performance, innovation, and societal culture. He is also specialized in the energy sector, with a focus on the green energy transition.
Areas of interest: Organization Theory, Social Networks, Strategic Management
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Areas of interest: Strategic management, Organizational design, Sustainable development, Telecommunications, Economics of organizations, Corporate governance, Busines models, Offshoring
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences
His research uses large-scale empirical approaches to study innovation at the firm and individual level. In particular, his current interests include the design and management of technology-based strategic alliances, feedback effects from financial markets to corporate R&D decisions, as well as the role of patent rights for the mobility of knowledge workers and the creation of start-ups.
Areas of interest: Economics of Innovation, Intellectual Property, Technology Strategy, Corporate Finance, Feedback Effects from Financial Markets
Research Line: Social and Behavioral Sciences