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Doctorate of Business Administration
Online
DURATION
34 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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TUITION FEES
EUR 10,000
STUDY FORMAT
Distance learning
Introduction
Become a scholar-practitioner in your domain. Develop your unique leadership style, learn strategic decision-making, and build critical research skills.
Key Highlights
- Uncompromising focus on leadership through course content and leadership masterclasses
- Access to CliftonStrengths Leadership Assessment
- Accelerated DBA experience; access to thesis supervision calls at the end of the first month of the program
- 1:1 Thesis supervision by ESGCI faculty
- Live sessions by ESGCI faculty
- 5-day global immersion at the ESGCI Campus
- Get interim certificates recognizing key research skills developed
Ideal Students
This Program Caters To
- Experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds include IT services, management and IT consultancy, finance, marketing, human resources, operations, supply chain management, etc.
- Mid-level managers aiming for senior leadership roles and personal development
- Enthusiastic learners pursuing leadership-focused doctoral subjects with robust academic support
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Scholarships of up to 50% for up to 350 applicants.
Curriculum
Introduction to Doctoral Research
- Decoding research
- Research design decisions and strategies
- Applying the research process
- Business and management research essentials
Formulating Research Topic and Literature Review
- Formulating a research question
- Writing a research proposal
- Writing a literature review
Quantitative Methods
- Descriptive statistics
- Difference in means
- Correlation
- Linear regression models
- Panel data models
- Logit and probit models
Qualitative Methods
- Methods and Fundamentals of Qualitative Research
- Choose qualitative research methods
- Grounded theory
- Discourse analysis
- Feminist and post-colonial studies
- Historical research
- Qualitative data interpretation and coding
- Qualitative comparative analysis
Business Strategy and Innovation in the Digital Age
- Business strategy essentials
- Portfolio of a firm
- Becoming a market leader
- Sustaining growth
- Value creation through digital models
- Growing a digital platform
Leadership Skills - Leading People, Organization and Change
- Leading teams and organizations
- Group decision making
- CliftonStrengthsTM Assessment
- Change management
- Bonus: Leadership and Entrepreneurship Masterclass with Ronnie Screwvala
Data Collection and Techniques (Optional)
- Fundamentals of quantitative data collection and secondary data sources
- Collecting and evaluating primary data
- Collecting primary qualitative data through observation
- Collecting primary qualitative data through interviews
Access to Data (Optional)
- Negotiating access to data
- Research ethics and managing data
Dissertation Phase
- Research proposal
- Literature review
- Draft methodology
- Data analysis Dissertation
Program Outcome
Build Leadership and Research-Based Skills
- Business research problem formulation
- Leadership skills
- Change management in the digital age
- Innovation in the digital age
- Research design
- Research reading and writing
- Data collection (Quantitative and qualitative)
- Sampling
- Critical thinking
- Data analysis
- Academic writing and formatting
Program Tuition Fee
English Language Requirements
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