PhDin business administration

The supporT for phD sTuDenTs aT LinDner is incredible. The college is invested in helping candidates succeed as researchers and as teachers.

-Marcie, 4th year PhD student “ ”

LINDNER College of Business

is built on an apprenticeship-style training model in which our students learn the history and current state of research in their area of concentration, conduct original research that advances knowledge in their field, and transfer their knowledge to others through teaching.

The primary mission of the Lindner PhD Program is to train future business school faculty who not only

teach in and across the disciplines in which they work, but also advance knowledge in those disciplines

through the generation and conduct of original research. Students work closely with faculty starting day one

of the program.

Our primary impact lies in supplying extraordinary faculty members to both public and private schools

of business administration, both within the United States and internationally. Recent placements include

Clemson University, Drexel University, Michigan State University, Providence College, University of Guelph

and University of South Florida, among others.

THE LINDNER PhD IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM HAS SIX AREAS OF CONCENTRATION:

• Accounting

• Economics

• Finance

• Management

• Marketing

• Operations, Business Analytics & Information Systems

In each concentration students learn from the best and

have opportunities to research and teach in their chosen

field. The research generated in all concentrations by our

doctoral students and faculty addresses issues of national

and international importance. Each program is flexible

and tailored to the needs of the individual students.

The PhD program at Lindner

accounTing

Lindner faculty is comprised of award-winning researchers. Our professors don’t just teach from the textbooks, they write the textbooks. Perhaps that’s why terms they coin are added to Webster’s Dictionary and their expertise is cited by national media outlets ranging from The New York Times and The Washington Post to ABC News and CBS Sports. Beyond research, our faculty routinely win teaching awards both locally and nationally.

Robert K. Larson, CPA, CMA, is Department

Head and a Professor of Accounting. He is a Past-

President of the American Accounting Association’s

International Accounting Section and received

their 2010 Outstanding

Service Award and their 2014

Outstanding International

Accounting Educator Award.

He’s written nearly three dozen

articles in a variety of leading

general and international

accounting journals.

Mark Myring is a Professor as well as the

Norwook and Marjorie Geis Endowed Chair in

Accounting. His current research focuses on the use

of accounting information and analysts’ forecasts

in domestic and international

capital markets. His

research has been published

in The Accounting Review,

Contemporary Accounting

Research, Journal of Accounting

and Public Policy, Journal

of Business Finance and

Accounting and the CPA Journal.

Top Researchers, Top Teachers

David Brasington is a

Professor and the James C.

and Caroline Kautz Chair

in Political Economy. His

research on house prices and

school-related issues has been

cited over 1000 times. He has

presented his work in seven

different countries.

economics

Debashis Pal is the David Sinton Professor

of Economics. His

research interests are in

microeconomics, industrial

organization and applied

game theory. His research

characterizing economic

outcomes arising in varied

market structures is widely

cited in the literature.

Top 25 Master of Accounting programin the most recent Public Accounting Report

Lindner College of Business

Alex Borisov joined the University of Cincinnati

in 2012. His research centers on corporate finance.

He has published his research in journals such as

the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

and Journal of Banking and

Finance. His work has been

presented at numerous national

and international academic

conferences and institutions

as well as featured in the Wall

Street Journal.

economics

Jeff Mills is an Associate Professor of Economics.

His research interests are in the areas of time series

econometrics, Bayesian inference and statistical

hypothesis testing. He has

published articles in the

Journal of Econometrics,

Journal of Applied

Econometrics, Econometric

Reviews, Empirical Economics,

and Applied Economics.

finance

Steve Slezak is a financial theorist whose research

appears in top-tier finance and economics journals,

including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial

Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of

Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of

Economics and Management Strategy. In general,

his research focuses on how informational problems

adversely affect managerial incentives and the

effective management, sharing, and pricing of

risk. His current project areas

include: incentives to commit

fraud, executive compensation,

liquidity and model risk and the

pricing of idiosyncratic risk.

Chen Xue joined the University of Cincinnati as an

assistant professor of finance in 2012 after earning

his PhD in finance from the University of Michigan.

He is an active researcher in the area of empirical

asset pricing and has published

articles in leading finance

journals such as the Review of

Financial Studies.

Top 10 Master of Finance programs by Master of Finance Degrees*

Our doctoral students educate Lindner

undergraduate students to be the next

generation of business leaders. Our students go

on to rewarding careers at companies such as

Google, Procter & Gamble, dunnhumby, Ernst

& Young and Macy’s.

*Of programs under $23,000

phD program, 2014-15

Elaine Hollensbe received the 2010 Rosabeth

Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-

Family Research and the 2011 Owens Scholarly

Achievement Award for her collaborative research

on work-home balance. Another paper, “Where

is the ‘Me’ among the ‘We’?:

Identity Work in a Greedy

Occupation,” received the

2006 Outstanding Publication

in Organizational Behavior

Award as selected by ten highly

regarded researchers in the field

from the Top Ten Management

journals.

Frank Kardes is Recipient of the 2004

Distinguished Scientific

Achievement Award from

the Society for Consumer

Psychology. He is also a Fellow

of five professional societies,

the Co-Editor of Marketing

Letters, and a member of

several editorial boards.

managemenT

markeTingSuzanne Masterson is Doctoral Program

Director and an Associate Professor of Management.

Her research on organizational

justice and organization-

employee relationships has

appeared in many top journals.

Masterson is editor-in-chief of

the Journal of Organizational

Behavior, and serves on three

top editorial review boards.

Charles Matthews is

a Distinguished Teaching

Professor of Entrepreneurship

and Strategic Management.

He is also the Founder of

the University of Cincinnati

Center for Entrepreneurship

Education & Research. He is

an internationally recognized scholar with research

published in leading journals on topics such as

nascent entrepreneurship, family business, strategy,

innovation, leadership, and decision-making.

Matthews has been quoted in numerous publications

including The Wall Street Journal, Industry Week,

Forbes, Business Week, and Inc. He is also the coauthor

of Innovation & Entrepreneurship: A Competency

Framework (Routledge, forthcoming 2015).

Joshua Clarkson is a

consumer psychologist who

specializes in the areas of

persuasion, self-regulation,

and expertise. His research

has been published in various

journals, including the Journal

of Consumer Research, the

Journal of Marketing Research,

and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

His findings have been featured in media outlets

from business magazines to pop-psychology books.

Mary Steffel is a recipient

of the Society for Consumer

Psychology Dissertation Award

for her research on gift giving.

Her research on consumer

judgment and decision making

has been featured in media

worldwide such as NBC’s Today

Show, Time magazine, Yahoo! and Women’s Health

magazine.

Lindner marketing programis ranked among the Top 40 graduate programs in the countryby Master’s Degrees Online

Lindner College of Business

Craig Froehle is a Professor of Operations.

He also holds appointments at the University of

Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati

Children’s hospital. He studies health care delivery

system issues like emergency department capacity

management, operating room

scheduling, clinic workflow,

and improving the patient

experience. His award-winning

research has been widely

published in both business and

health care journals.

Roger Chiang is a Professor of Information

Systems. His research interests include business

intelligence, data and knowledge management,

and intelligent systems, particularly in database

reverse engineering, database

integration, data and text

mining, document classification

and clustering, domain

knowledge discovery, semantic

information retrieval, and text

analytics for market structure

analysis.

Jeff Camm is a Professor of Business Analytics and

the Director of the University of Cincinnati Center

for Business Analytics. He is an INFORMS Edelman

Laureate and the recipient of the INFORMS Prize

for the Teaching of Operations

Research Practice. His research

in innovative applications of

optimization has appeared in

Science, Management Science,

Operations Research and other

journals.

Yan Yu is a Professor of

Business Analytics. She researches nonparametric

estimation, statistical finance, and data mining. She

has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of

the American Statistical Association and Statistica

Sinica. At the University of Cincinnati, she received

Honorable Mention for the

Excellence in Mentoring of

Doctoral Students Award.

operaTions, Business anaLyTics anD informaTion sysTems

Lindner marketing programis ranked among the Top 40 graduate programs in the countryby Master’s Degrees Online

Lindner Business Analytics

is ranked among the Top 20

graduate data analytics

programs in North America

by InformationWeek

The faculty, both in the department and surrounding the PhD program, are amazing.

-Gary, 2nd year PhD student

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phD program, 2014-15

Sung Doo Kim is opening a rare avenue of research into coping with technology-induced distractions from work in our contemporary society. Previous research has focused on breaks during off-job hours such as evening, weekend and vacation periods or on traditional “offline” breaks taken during working hours such as lunch or coffee breaks. Given the prevalence of online work breaks, his University of Cincinnati studies examined this phenomenon in depth, utilizing extensive one-on-one interviews with professionals from a variety of industries and occupations. Kim’s recent study suggests that managers consider organizational policies that tap into the positive potential of online work breaks but also establish policies encouraging responsible behavior such as providing limits on the time spent on online breaks or holding training on effective strategies that bring benefits from online breaks.

After presenting his findings at the Academy of Management meeting, Kim’s research was picked up by news outlets including the Huffington Post, Economic Times (India), Business Courier, China Topix and the Daily Mail. Kim was awarded a Society for Human Resources Management Foundation Dissertation Award to help fund his dissertation.

Lauren LaKer’S current research draws on the fields of operations research, management, health care services research and information systems. She currently has two papers in press:

• The Flex Track: Flexible Partitioning between Low- and High-Acuity Areas of an Emergency Department

• The Nature and Necessity of Operational Flexibility in the Emergency Department

Both papers, which are multidisciplinary collaborations, explore the utilization of physical resources in the emergency department. Through research led by Laker, which involved field observation, primary data collection, and the development of a discrete-event simulation, she evaluated the possible benefits of flexible capacity. The study results suggest that operational flexibility is a valuable tool for improving efficiency, and that flexible resource allocation should be considered in order to help emergency departments respond more effectively to demand variability and to mitigate resource-based operational constraints.

Her research is in press at Annals of Emergency Medicine.

aShLey otto’S research lies at the intersection of social cognition and judgment and decision-making. She takes a strong theoretical approach to her work, aiming to explain multiple theories via common underlying meta-theories.

A paper that is currently under review explores the intersection of a variety of different choice strategies that consumers rely on for decision-making. Specifically, Otto and her co-authors explore the commonalities of those who make decisions by, essentially, avoiding them. For instance, failing to make a decision, postponing a decision, or making a decision that does not involve action or change all represent this broader phenomenon of decision avoidance. Looking at the cognitive motivations underlying decision avoidance, this work finds that the ubiquitous bias to engage in decision avoidance can be driven by a consumer’s desire to achieve cognitive closure with a decision. Essentially, consumers engage in decision avoidance strategies as a quick yet justifiable means to resolve a choice and achieve closure with a decision.

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Most500Cincinnati has more Fortune 500 companies per capita than New York, Los Angeles, Boston or Chicago

Mashable named Cincinnati as the most social city in the country

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Kiplinger magazine ranked Cincinnati best bet for “hot spots” and among the 10 greatest cities for young adults

5 A thriving arts community representing all 5 arts disciplines: ballet, opera, art museums, symphony, and theater

Cincinnati was named the ninth smartest city in the country by Movoto

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20 Forbes named Cincinnati one of the Top 20 U.S. cities where individuals can truly make a difference

People often state that Cincinnati is the “biggest small town in the world”, an excellent combination of small-town friendliness coupled with all of the advantages of a big city. Now is an exciting time to be part of Cincinnati’s vibrant community where students and young families can enjoy both an affordable cost of living and a thriving downtown district filled with events and attractions.

The University of Cincinnati’s strategic location at the heart of such a diverse and ever-expanding business environment provides many opportunities for our PhD students to research real-world problems in real-world settings.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTSThe University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business PhD program is designed to provide the background and skills necessary to conduct independent research and to prepare the student for a primary career in teaching and research.

Credit Hours: Minimum 90 semester credit hours above the baccalaureate degree (60 semester credit hours above the master’s degree) distributed as follows: Introductory Doctoral Seminar 3 Core Statistics Requirement 6 Additional Research Methods 6 Area of Concentration 18 Support Area/Area Specified 15 Business Core 8 Additional Choice Coursework 4 Total Seminar/Course Hours 60 Dissertation work 30 TOTAL GRADUATE HOURS 90

APPLY ONLINE: GRAD.UC.EDUAPPLICATION DEADLINE IS JANUARY 15TH

aDmissions process

REQUIRED MATERIALSu Statement of Purpose: why you wish to pursue

a PhD degree, including area(s) of research and teaching interest

u Three letters of recommendation from faculty members or professional colleagues. Writers may use their own style

u Official GMAT (no code needed) or GRE score sent directly from ETS (University code 1833)

u Official TOEFL scores sent directly from ETS (University code 1833, international students)

u Official transcripts of all previous graduate and undergraduate institutions

u Resume/vita outlining educational and work experience

u The application fee: $65 for domestic students

and $70 for international students

These materials should be submitted online with the application or sent to the Graduate Programs Office listed below. When all of these materials have been received, the application will be reviewed for an admissions decision. Applicants will receive written notification of the admissions decision.

PhD Program OfficeUniversity of CincinnatiCarl H. Lindner College of BusinessPO Box 210020Cincinnati, OH 45221-0020 USA(513) 556-7190

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:Suzanne Masterson, PhDDoctoral Program DirectorSuzanne.Masterson@uc.edu(513) 556-7125

Angel ElvinAssistant Director, Graduate ProgramsAngel.Elvin@uc.edu(513) 556-7190

There are three reasons that I chose the University of Cincinnati: its location, near an urban, downtown environment, the caliber and friendliness of the professors, and the fact that the program allows teaching in the second year.

-Carlos, 2nd year PhD student

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Carl H. Lindner College of BusinessPhD Program Office