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Accounting

The Department of Accountancy seeks exceptional students with strong analytical and verbal skills. Accounting research examines the incentives for and the process of generating accounting information and evaluates its usefulness for investors, corporate managers and auditors. The program is rigorous and demanding requiring significant course work in microeconomics, mathematics, statistics, econometrics, and finance as well as doctoral level research seminars in accounting. Depending on the particular research interest, a student may also pursue coursework in psychology, sociology or other social science disciplines. The objective of the PhD program is to train individuals to identify original research questions and pursue them in an efficient and systematic manner. The doctoral students are trained primarily to be productive faculty members in research universities.

The accounting faculty has varied research interests, which include financial accounting and disclosure, the role of earnings and earnings forecasts in capital markets, analysis of managerial incentives and preferences for different accounting rules, regulations and disclosure regimes, issues related to audit market structure, auditors incentives and reputations, managerial performance evaluation and control, cost system design, and issues related to the role of culture and strategy in determining accounting rules and practices in the USA and international markets.

Accounting faculty members have published their research in the premier research journals in accounting and related fields such as, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Finance, Management Science, Academy of Management Journal, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Journal of International Business Studies and Public Choice.

The Department of Finance teaching and research interests include: corporate finance, financial management of financial institutions, working capital management, cost of capital and capital budgeting, international finance, speculative markets, financial theory and strategy, experimental financial economics, real estate investment and capital markets, real estate finance and valuation, investments and portfolio management.

Doctoral students in Finance are trained to be productive faculty members, with expertise in teaching and research, and service. The department is one of UC's best in terms of student retention, graduation, time-to-degree, and placement.

Faculty publications appear in such diverse journals as: Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Financial Review, Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics, Quarter Journal of Business and Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, and the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.

The Ph.D. in Information Systems is primarily designed to prepare students for an academic career, involving research and teaching, at leading Universities around the world. Through a combination of coursework, research seminars, and mentored research, students acquire breadth of knowledge in the range of issues that define the field of IS, as well as in-depth expertise in an area of their choice.

The IS Department faculty have a wide range of research interests, including electronic commerce, data warehousing, data modeling, knowledge management, management of the IS function, electronic social networks, business intelligence, and the role of IT in organization design and strategy. They regularly publish in leading journals in the field such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, VLDB journal, and others. Our faculty also serve in editorial roles on many of these journals. Finally, alliances with many leading vendors such as Microsoft, Dell, IBM, and SAP mean that our students always have access to the latest technologies for both their research and teaching needs.

The Department of Management seeks doctoral candidates with a passion for understanding how individual, group, organizational, and inter-organizational phenomena affect the management of complex organizations. Our doctoral students develop a strong knowledge base in a variety of topics in management, including Organization Behavior, Organization Theory, and Strategic Management. The overarching goal is to prepare our doctoral students for successful scholarly careers in academia.

The Management faculty has consistently published in the most influential management journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Management Journal. Faculty members are on the editorial boards of prominent journals, and are actively engaged in collaborations with business organizations in the region.

We welcome applications from students who hold bachelor or master degrees from approved colleges and who show the ability to carry on rigorous graduate study. Previous education in management is not required for admission. Admission is based on applicant's undergraduate and graduate records, letters of recommendation, Graduate Record Examination or Graduate Management Admission test scores, and other material that indicates strong aptitude for graduate study in management. The Department of Management actively seeks applications from qualified minority and female candidates.

Faculty in the Department of Marketing have varied research and teaching interests which include: consumer behavior, consumer satisfaction, consumer psychology and product management, advertising, brand management, sales management, direct marketing, marketing strategy, marketing ethics, marketing channels, generation and diffusion of innovations, group and individual decision making, the application of experimental and mathematical statistics to problems in marketing management, pricing, forecasting and real-time control of supply-chain activities.

Marketing faculty regularly publish in such professional journals as The Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Decision Sciences. In addition, they have extensive consulting experience with such companies as Procter & Gamble, A.C. Nielsen Corporation, Kraft USA, the Kroger Company and the Battelle Memorial Institute.

The Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management seeks exceptional students with strong analytical backgrounds and quantitative aptitudes. QA/OM prepares graduates for careers as college professors or as technical specialists in industry or government.

The QA PhD program offers the opportunity to focus on operations research or applied statistics. Graduates have been highly successful both in academic and industrial positions. Course work includes mathematical programming, stochastic models and applied statistics along with seminars on the latest developments in the field.

The OM PhD program focuses on research in operations planning and scheduling, quality management, operations strategy and supply chain management, with supplementary seminars on state of the art issues in OM.

Departmental faculty members consistently publish in leading academic journals, have received professional recognition for teaching, research, and service, and have written several leading textbooks. The QA/OM Department has been recognized as one of the University's “Centers of Excellence” through the State of Ohio Academic Excellence Program.

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