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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog
Business Administration-Supply Chain/Operations Concentration, PhD
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Program Description
The PhD program in Business Administration is designed to provide advanced education for students of outstanding ability who desire to pursue careers in academic research institutions. The coursework for the PhD in Business Administration includes a rigorous set of intellectually stimulating and challenging scholarly methods, foundation, and advanced courses and seminars. In addition, the program requires successful passage of a comprehensive examination and successful completion of the doctoral dissertation. A variety of learning experiences are incorporated into the curriculum, including the development of conceptual frameworks and theories, qualitative case and empirical studies, field projects, and in-depth research. Before graduating, each student will (1) have presented, or had accepted for presentation, a paper before a professional or scientific society; or (2) have had an article published, or accepted for publication, in a refereed journal. In addition, each student will have classroom teaching experience.
Within the Department of Management, PhD students have tremendous opportunities to conduct cross-disciplinary research between supply chain and operations management and information systems or with high-quality faculty in entrepreneurship and strategic management, as well as organizational behavior and human resources management. The goal is to position graduates for scholarly academic careers at colleges and universities throughout the United States and the world.
The PhD program in Business Administration is designed for full-time students who remain on campus during the entire duration of their study. Students may enter the program in the fall semester only (starting mid-August). Students with bachelor’s or master’s degrees in a business discipline can typically complete the program in five years (contingent on satisfactory progress in the program), although some students may complete the program in four years. Students with non-business degrees need to complete background courses that may lengthen the program duration. Students entering the program must have completed undergraduate and/or graduate coursework in calculus and linear algebra.
Summary of Degree Requirements
This degree requires a minimum of 48 credit hours of coursework, and at least 18 credit hours of doctoral dissertation research. The final basis for granting this degree is the student’s demonstrated mastery of the subject matter of the field and competence in planning and conducting research that adds to the body of knowledge in the field of study. Ultimately, only the student’s advisory committee can certify that the student has earned this degree.
Coursework
Students entering the Supply Chain/Operations Concentration are required to complete the Economics math bootcamp by June 30 prior to beginning the concentration in fall. The Economics math bootcamp consists of coursework in linear algebra, calculus I and calculus (including multivariate calculus), and must be completed with a minimum grade of B. Courses from an accredited school can be used to satisfy the requirement.
YEAR 1
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*If ECON 8060 is not offered in the fall and ECON 8070 is not offered in the spring of the student’s first year, either CPSC 6300 or ECON 8710 will be substituted for ECON 8060 in the fall with the approval of Senior SC/OM faculty. In this case, ECON 9000, which combines ECON 8060 and ECON 8070, should be taken in the spring and will substitute for ECON 8070. A final exam grade of B or higher demonstrates proficiency in econometrics.
Summer:
NOTE: Students may take credit or non-credit courses in R and Python at any time in the first year. Short-term non-credit courses may be offered by CCIT.
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YEAR 3 THEREAFTER TO DEGREE COMPLETION
Students may select other optional elective courses to supplement their research.
Supply Chain/Operations value chain has many applications that cross industrial sectors and other disciplines. Students are prepared to conduct and apply state-of-the-art empirical and/or analytic research methods. Therefore, to enrich their dissertation research, students are encouraged to take advantage of Clemson’s graduate-level courses to deepen their understanding of topics of interest (e.g., healthcare; strategy; climate and environment; humanitarian operations, healthcare and wellness; socio-technical-human interfaces; retail; product-process-service and technological innovations; influencing consumers in service co-production, such as sharing economy and digital services; risk management, etc.), and/or enhance methodological rigor including big data, analytics, assessment of human biases in decision-making and others. Elective courses should be approved by Dissertation Chair.
Illustrative examples of enrichment courses include: AGED 8010 , ECON 9010 , HCC 8410 , HCC 8500 , HCG 9330 , HLTH 8090 , HRD 8800 , HRD 8820 , MATH 8170 , MATH 8180 , MATH 8270 , MATH 8630 , MATH 8660 , MATH 8820 , MBA 8990 , MHA 7320 , MKT 8610 , MKT 9000 , POST 8000 , PRTM 8800 , PSYC 8100 , PSYC 8110 , PSYC 8330 , PSYC 8720 , SOC 6060 , SSCI 8030 , SSCI 8100 , STAT 6110 , and STAT 8150 .
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