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Commensurately with the continued growth in our faculty, we are
expanding our management doctoral program. Please be so kind and
forward the information below to any interested individual. Thank you!
The Management Department at the C.T. Bauer College of Business,
University of Houston, seeks qualified applicants for its Ph.D. program
Our Ph.D. Program in Management
The Ph.D. Program in Management at the Bauer College of Business,
University of Houston, is designed to provide students with the
necessary training, experience and analytical skills to carry out high
quality teaching and research in management and strategy. Our program
covers both micro areas of management- organizational behavior and human
resources-and macro areas of management-strategy and organizational
theory. Our emphases include leadership, corporate governance, human
resource strategy, innovation, and the energy industry, as well as other
management-related areas
Our curriculum emphasizes solid research methods, theory and
applications in management. Students work closely with faculty, and are
also given the opportunity to pursue their own research ideas. Faculty
members in the department publish in the top journals in the field and
students are encouraged to participate in this work and generate
original research. In addition to course work, students learn about the
academic profession through invited guest lectures and attendance at
national conferences.
Our Management Faculty
The management faculty members are top scholars in the field and their
teaching is consistently rated by students as outstanding. Professors
are collegial and very accessible to students.
Current faculty and their areas of interest:
Leanne Atwater: Leadership, discipline, feedback processes
Roger Blakeney: Cross-cultural management and negotiation
Dennis Bozeman: Organizational politics, influence processes
Richard DeFrank: Work stress, psychological contracts
Teri Elkins: Personnel law, discrimination, justice
John Ivancevich: Stress, business travelers, expatriates
Carla Jones: Corporate governance, competitive dynamics
Robert Keller: International technology transfer
Vicky Liu: Organizational change, transformational
leadership
Timothy McMahon: Cross-cultural issues, organizational change
Seemantini Pathak: Corporate governance, corporate strategy
James Phillips: Justice, discipline, discrimination
Joseph Pratt: Business history, energy sector history
Dale Rude: Behavioral finance, investor decision making
Andrew Szilagyi: Leadership, strategy
Dusya Vera: Strategic leadership, org. learning,
improvisation
Steve Werner: Compensation, international human resources
Financial Aid
Accepted doctoral students are hired as Research Assistants for 20 hours
a week for four years and receive generous year-round stipends
($25,000). In addition, the University of Houston provides fellowships
that cover tuition for four years. The Department of Management provides
laptop computers for new students and additional funding for students
presenting papers at national conferences.
Applications
Admissions occur only in the Fall, and the deadline is February 1. To
apply for the Ph.D. Program in Management in the Bauer College, please
visit our web site at
www.bauer.uh.edu/doctoral/management/
<http://www.bauer.uh.edu/doctoral/management/> or contact us at
713-743-4677, 713-743-4670, or email Dr. Dusya Vera at
dvera@uh.edu
<mailto:
dvera@uh.edu> .
More about the C.T. Bauer College of Business and the University of
Houston
The University of Houston's C. T. Bauer College of Business
(www.bauer.uh.edu <http://www.bauer.uh.edu/> ) is Houston's most
comprehensive business school. Over the past year, Bauer has earned
rankings that place it squarely among the nation's leading business
schools.
* Bauer College has the No. 1 Evening MBA program in Houston,
according to Business Week's 2007 list of the 30 Best Part-Time MBA
Programs in the nation. The program ranks No. 27 in the United States
and No. 4 in the Southwest region.
* Bauer recently ranked #40 in BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the
top public undergraduate schools of business in the U.S.
* The Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship was ranked 1st in the
nation by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine in their list
of the Top 25 Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Programs of 2008.
Founded in 1927, the University of Houston (www.uh.edu
<http://www.uh.edu/> ) is the leading public research university in
Houston. Each year, we educate 35,000 students in nearly 300
undergraduate and graduate academic programs, on campus and online. The
University of Houston awards more than 6,900 degrees annually, with
nearly 200,000 alumni.
More about Houston
Since Houston's founding by two entrepreneurs, the Allen brothers, it
has become recognized as one of the foremost entrepreneurial cities in
the world. What else does Houston have to offer?
* We're the fourth largest city in the United States. Houston is
diverse, too. The demographics here are already where the U.S.
demographics are projected for 2060.
* We have the fourth largest Hispanic population in the country,
and we're the U.S. gateway to Latin America.
* Houston is the headquarters for 18 Fortune 500 companies and
is the energy capital of the world.
* We're the #1 U.S. port city and #2 in the nation for
consulates. We're also #5 in the country for financial services.
Houston is also #1 in the following rankings: Best City to Live, Work,
and Play (Kiplinger's Personal Finance - July 2008), Best U.S. City to
Earn a Living (Forbes.com - August 18, 2008), Best City for Your Job
(BusinessWeek - June 12, 2008), Best City to Buy a Home (Forbes.com -
July 14, 2008), Fastest Job Growth (06/07 to 06/08) (U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment), Lowest
Cost of Living Among Major Metro Areas (ACCRA Cost of Living Index -
Second Quarter 2008), America's Best Hospitals - Cancer, M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center (U.S News & World Report - July 2008), among other
rankings.
Dusya Vera
Associate Professor
Department of Management
C.T. Bauer College of Business
334 Melcher Hall
The University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-6030
Phone: 713-743-4677, Fax: 713-743-4652