Are you looking to take a seat at the table—or teach the next generation of business leaders? Realize your professional potential with Walden’s online doctoral programs in business. We’ve been helping busy working adults achieve their higher education goals for more than 50 years.
Taught by experienced faculty members, our business doctoral programs allow you to apply the latest theory and research to real problems facing organizations today. Whether you choose our Doctor of Business Administration or our PhD program in management, you’ll have the inspiration and support you need to stay on track toward the finish line.
Deepen your business knowledge with a program that builds on your existing expertise. Prepare to serve as a global leader and change agent in the corporate, public, or academic sector.
Designed for management and education leaders, our PhD in Management program offers comprehensive support to help you prepare for dissertation success.
Develop a deeper understanding of financial models and theoretical tools as you broaden your expertise in relevant topics such as investor-led investments, mergers and acquisitions, and managing and mitigating financial crises within a global environment.
Accounting is fundamental to successfully managing an organization and making sound business decisions. In the DBA Accounting specialization, you can enhance your knowledge of managerial accounting methods that are essential to your company’s bottom line and elevating your organization’s competitive position.
Learn the skills necessary to manage and lead a spectrum of workers, managers, and teams in a global marketplace. Examine the financial implications of conducting business internationally, including how capital investment is undertaken globally and how financial markets and global trade influence investment opportunities.
Today’s human resource (HR) managers do much more than fill positions—they’re strategic partners with a critical seat at the executive table. The DBA program’s Human Resource Management specialization prepares you with the theoretical knowledge, industry insights, and capabilities to be an authoritative voice in this field, whether you’re looking to pursue executive leadership, teaching, or research.
The Homeland Security specialization is designed for leaders in the private and public sectors interested in analyzing homeland security and crisis planning from a business perspective.
This specialization investigates marketing challenges and opportunities from a real-world context. Study key marketing concepts, including market segmentation, marketing channels, competitive intelligence, integrated marketing, product development and commercialization, and consumer behavior.
Explore the entrepreneurial concepts and processes that are found in both established companies with a pioneering spirit and start-ups.
Effective project managers provide the strategic competencies that can enable an organization to succeed in the global marketplace. In the DBA Project Management specialization, you can learn the necessary skills to deliver your organization’s strategic objectives through dynamic project portfolio management.
Develop your expertise in information systems management with this specialization that addresses the management challenges facing technology-based businesses.
Create your own specialization based on your individual goals and interests in business administration. Choose seminars from the program’s other nine specializations under the guidance of a Walden faculty mentor.
Globalization, advances in technology, and rapid changes in the marketplace all contribute to the need for business professionals to continually develop their leadership skills. Explore new frameworks and perspectives that will help you to lead and manage change effectively.
Gain the finance tools that help managers maximize their firm’s value, including valuation, capital budgeting and structure, working capital management, multinational concepts, and Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).
Explore the changes in organizational innovation agility and develop leadership strategies informed by design thinking.
Challenge your critical thinking abilities by testing conventional organizational strategies and structures in this specialization. Develop alternative conceptualizations of management, understand what a socially conscious leader is, and create 21st-century leadership practices.
Our PhD dissertation completion program is designed specifically for returning doctoral degree candidates who have completed all coursework for a PhD, except the prospectus and dissertation process, at an accredited university.
Create your own specialization based on your individual goals and interests in management. Choose courses from other specializations within the program under the guidance of a Walden faculty mentor.
Apply current theories to conduct research in areas such as the behavioral implications of environments, motivation, and performance on individuals and teams in global environments; strategic human resource management; the role of collaboration and performance of global teams; regulatory and ethical concerns; and labor relations.
Explore an integrative approach to all aspects of organizations, including people, processes, technology, systems, and management.
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