Executive DBA Degree Requirements

The doctorate is expected to be completed within 24 to 36 months; outstanding doctoral candidates could expect an earlier graduation with a minimum of 18 months.

The first part of the program (Year 1) is designed around core methodology courses and seminars to help candidates develop their research methodology skills while clarifying their research projects. In the second part (Year 2), the Executive DBA students, closely supervised by a scholar from the doctoral faculty, organize their research topic and engage in the process of writing the doctoral dissertation.

It must be emphasized that the Executive DBA program will help publish most completed doctoral dissertations thanks to an agreement with a highly distinguished editor.

The uniqueness of the Executive DBA is the utilization of accumulated life experience as a foundation for research.The DBA focuses on the production of concepts and methods that contribute to advance the management science corpus.

In order to accomplish this, doctoral candidates must complete the following:

• Successfully complete Year 1 Seminar.
• Write a doctoral dissertation which must be substantial and innovative, at a minimum of 200 pages.
• Defend thesis in front of a Jury composed of a minimum of three university or business school professors, one of whom external to Paris School of Business.

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