Recent PhD Placements

Accounting
Yale University, Yale School of Management
Cornell University, Johnson College of Business
INSEAD
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business

 

Decision Sciences
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
University of Texas at Dallas, Jindal School of Management
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)
New York University – Shanghai
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business

 

Finance
Yale University, Yale School of Management
Purdue University, Krannert School of Management
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
University of Western Ontario, Ivey School of Business
City University of Hong Kong, College of Business

 

Management and Organizations
Hong Kong university of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Cornell University, Johnson College of Business
Tulane University, Freeman School of Business
Columbia University, Columbia Business School
Michigan State University, Broad College of Business
INSEAD

 

Marketing
Hong Kong University, Business School
University of Washington, Foster School of Business
University of Rochester, Simon Business School
University of Pittsburg, Katz Graduate School of Business
Cornell University, Johnson College of Business
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

 

Operations Management
Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business
Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business
University of Pittsburg, Katz Graduate School of Business
University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School
John Hopkins, Carey Business School
Purdue University, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business

 

Strategy
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
London Business School
University of Colorado, Leeds School of Business
Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business
European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)
New York University, Stern School of Business

Oliver Binz - Accounting

• The Information Content of Corporate Earnings: Evidence from the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
  Journal of Accounting Research, 2022
• Firms’ Response to Macroeconomic Estimation Errors
  Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2022
• Managerial Response to Macroeconomic Uncertainty: Implications for Firm Profitability
  The Accounting Review, 2022

Gregory Burke - Accounting

• SEC Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposals: No-Action Requests, Determinants, and the Role of SEC Staff 
  Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2023

Matt Kubic - Accounting

• Regulator Continuity and Decision-Making Quality: Evidence from SEC Comment Letters
  The Accounting Review, forthcoming
• State Sponsors of Terrorism Disclosure and SEC Financial Reporting Oversight
  Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2021
• Examining the Examiners: SEC Error Detection Rates and Human Capital Allocation
  The Accounting Review, 2021
• Time to Get It Right: An Examination of Post-Acquisition Fair Value Adjustments
  Journal of Financial Reporting, 2021

Chen Chen - Decision Sciences

• Dynamic Pricing of Relocating Resources in Large Networks
  Management Science, 2021

Mingliu Chen - Decision Sciences

• Optimal Monitoring Schedule in Dynamic Contracts
  Operations Research, 2020

Yan Chen - Decision Sciences

• Society of Agents: Regret Bounds of Concurrent Thompson Sampling
  NeurIPS 2022, accepted

Huseyin Gurkan - Decision Sciences

• Informing the Public About a Pandemic
  Management Science, 2021
• Contracting, Pricing, and Data Collection Under the AI Flywheel Effect
  Management Science, 2022
• Multistage Intermediation in Display Advertising
  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020

Simiao Jiao - Decision Sciences

• LU decomposition and Toeplitz decomposition of a neural network
  with Yucong Liu and Lek-Heng Lim
  Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis Volume 68

Cagin Uru - Decision Sciences

• Sequential Search with Acquisition Uncertainty
  Management Science, forthcoming
• Sequential Search with Acquisition Uncertainty
  By David B. Brown and Cagin Uru
  Management Science

Sophie Yu - Decision Sciences

• Testing Correlation of Unlabeled Random Graphs
  Annals of Applied Probability, forthcoming
• Testing Network Correlation Efficiently via Counting Trees
  Annals of Statistics, accepted
• Settling the Sharp Reconstruction Thresholds of Random Graph Matching
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022

Jingwei Zhang - Decision Sciences

• On the Strength of Relaxations of Weakly Coupled Stochastic Dynamic Programs
  Operations Research, forthcoming
• Dynamic Programs with Shared Resources and Signals: Dynamic Fluid Policies and Asymptotic Optimality
  Operations Research, forthcoming

Hanjing Zhu - Decision Sciences

• One-Pass SGD in Over-Parametrized Two-Layer Neural Network
  AISTATS, 2021

Rafael Alves - Finance

• Forecasting Large Realized Covariance Matrices: The Benefits of Factor Models and Shrinkage
  Research Policy, 2022

John Barry - Finance

• Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis
  Journal of Financial Economics, 2022

Hao Pang - Finance

• Common shocks in stocks and bonds
  Journal of Financial Economics, 2022
• Contagion in a network of heterogeneous banks
  Journal of Banking and Finance, 2021

Danbee Chon - Management & Organizations

• Disentangling the Process and Content of Self-Awareness: a Review, Critical Assessment, and Synthesis
  Academy of Management Annals, 2021

Sean Fath - Management & Organizations

• Encouraging Self-Blinding in Hiring
  Behavioral Science and Policy, forthcoming
• How Reflecting on Experiences of Disadvantage Can Lead White Men to Perceive Racial Privilege
  Harvard Business Review, forthcoming
• Blinding Curiosity: Exploring Preferences for “Blinding” One’s Own Judgment
  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2022
• Self-Views of Disadvantage and Success Impact Perceptions of Privilege Among White Men
  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2022
• Why Putting on Blinders Can Help Us See More Clearly
  MIT Sloan Management Review, 2021
• The Highs and Lows of Hierarchy in Multiteam Systems
  Academy of Management Journal, 2021
• Signaling Creative Genius: How Perceived Social Connectedness Influences Judgments of Creative Potential
  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2021

Carman W Fowler - Management & Organizations

• Seen and Not Seen: How People Judge Ambiguous Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2022

Anyi Ma - Management & Organizations

• On the Mutual Constitution of Person and Culture: Examining the Link Between Perceived Control and Cultural Tightness-Looseness
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, forthcoming
• Support for Increasing Low Wage Workers’ Compensation: The Role of Fixed-Growth Mindsets about Intelligence
  Journal of Experimental Psychology, forthcoming
• Reconciling Female Agentic Advantage and Disadvantage with the CADDIS Measure of Agency
  Journal of Applied Psychology, 2022
• Exploring Perceptions of Disadvantage and Success as Interwoven Antecedents of White Privilege
  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2022

Jessica Paek - Management & Organizations

• Congratulations, So Happy for You! Promotion Motivation Predicts Social Support for Positive Events
  Motivation Science, 2022
• Tying the Value of Goals to Social Class
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2023
• The Andrew Carnegie Effect: Legacy motives increase the intergenerational allocation of wealth to collective causes
  Social Psychological and Personality Science, forthcoming

Rebecca Ponce de Leon - Management & Organizations

• “Invisible” Discrimination: Divergent Outcomes for the Non-Prototypicality of Black Women
  Academy of Management Journal, 2022
• “They’re Everywhere!”: Symbolically Threatening Groups Seem More Pervasive than Non-Threatening Groups
  Psychological Science, 2022
• Double Jeopardy or Intersectional Invisibility? Reconciling (Seemingly) Opposing Perspectives
  Research on Social Issues in Management: The Future of Scholarship on Race in Organizations, forthcoming
• Ironic Egalitarianism: When Hierarchy-Attenuating Motives Increase Hierarchy-Enhancing Beliefs
  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2021

Sara Wingrove - Management & Organizations

• Interpersonal Consequences of Conveying Goal Ambition
  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, forthcoming
• Scientific Skepticism and Inequality: Political and Ideological Roots
  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2020

Rodrigo Dias - Marketing

• Spending and Happiness: The Role of Perceived Financial Constraints
  Journal of Consumer Research, 2022
• Aha over Haha: Brands Benefit More from Being Clever than from Being Funny
  Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2022

Holly Howe - Marketing

• Aha vs. Haha: Brand Benefit More from Being Clever than from Being Funny
  Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2022
• Open Science Online Grocery: A Tool for Studying Choice Context and Food Choice
  Journal of the Association of Consumer Research, 2022
• Being There without Being There: Gifts Compensate for Lack of In-Person Support
  Psychology and Marketing, 2022
• Therapeutic Cannabis Use in Kidney Disease: A Survey of Canadian Nephrologists
  Kidney Medicine, 2022
• Associations Between Resistance Training Motivation, Behaviour and Strength
  International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2021
• Body Image and Voluntary Gaze Behaviors Towards Physique-Salient Images
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
• The Shifting Perspectives Study Protocol: Cognitive Remediation Therapy as an Adjunctive Treatment to Family Based Treatment for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa
  Contemporary Clinical Trials, 2021
• Anger Damns the Innocent: The Paradox of Anger in False Accusations of Wrongdoing
  Psychological Science, 2021

Nah Lee - Marketing

• Vertical versus Horizontal Variance in Online Reviews and Their Impact on Demand
  Journal of Marketing Research, accepted

Demilade Oba - Marketing

• How communication mediums shape the message
  Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2023

Siddharth Prusty - Marketing

• Robust Importance Weighting for Covariate Shift
  Proceedings of the Twenty Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2020

Jacqueline Rifkin - Marketing

• Penny for Your Preferences: Leveraging Self-Expression to Encourage Small Prosocial Gifts
  Journal of Marketing, 2020
• How Nonconsumption Can Turn Ordinary Items into Perceived Treasures
  Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2021
• “They’re Everywhere!”: Symbolically Threatening Groups Seem More Pervasive than Non-Threatening Groups
  Psychological Science, 2022

Kelley Gullo Wight - Marketing

• Social Relationships and Consumer Behavior 
  APA Handbook of Consumer Psychology, 2022
• Secret Consumer Behaviors in Close Relationships
  Journal of Consumer Psychology, forthcoming

Lingrui Zhou - Marketing

• Befriending the Enemy: The Effects of Observing Brand-to-Brand Praise on Consumer Evaluations and Choices
  Journal of Marketing, 2022
• Aha vs. Haha: Brand Benefit More from Being Clever than from Being Funny
  Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2022
• Better to Decide Together: Shared Consumer Decision Making, Power, and Relationship Satisfaction
  Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2021

Yuan-Mao Kao - Operations Management

• Impact of Information Asymmetry and Limited Production Capacity on Business Interruption Insurance
  Management Science, 2022

Chenghuai Li - Operations Management

• The Blockchain Newsvendor: Value of Freshness Transparency and Smart Contracts
  N. Bora Keskin, Chenghuai Li, Jeannette Song
  Management Science, forthcoming

Yuexing Li - Operations Management

• Data-driven Dynamic Pricing and Ordering with Perishable Inventory in a Changing Environment
  Management Science, 2022

Chen-An Lin - Operations Management

• Wait Time–Based Pricing for Queues with Customer-Chosen Service Times
  Management Science, 2022

James Scott - Operations Management

• A normal fan projection algorithm for low-rank optimization
  Scott, J.R., Geunes, J.
  Mathematical Programming (2024)

Ali Kaan Tuna - Operations Management

• Sustainability Implications of Supply Chain Responsiveness
  Research Policy, 2022

Divya Sebastian - Strategy

• Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage
  By Ashish Arora, Wesley M Cohen, and Honggi Lee
  Research Policy, 2023

Lia Sheer - Strategy

• Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the Two Worlds of Scientific Discovery and Invention within the Firm
  Research Policy, 2022
• Knowledge Spillovers and Corporate Investment in Scientific Research
  American Economic Review, 2021
•  Matching Patents to Compustat Firms, 1980-2015: Dynamic Reassignment, Name Changes, and Ownership Structures
  Research Policy, 2021

Oliver Binz - Accounting

• FARS Midyear Meeting Outstanding Reviewer Award 2022
• EAR Conference Best Discussant Award 2021

Matthew Kubic - Accounting

• The Fuqua School of Business' Best Dissertation Award 2019-2020

Ayoub Amil - Decision Sciences

• RMP Jeff McGill Student Paper Prize (2022), Finalist  - Multi-Item Order Fulfillment Revisited: LP Formulation and Prophet Inequality

Irem Nur Keskin - Decision Sciences

• 2024 POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Competition, Honorable Mention

Cagin Uru - Decision Sciences

• INFORMS M&SOM Student Paper Award (2023), Second Place

Sophie Yu - Decision Sciences

• The Fuqua School of Business' Best Dissertation Award 2022-2023
• INFORMS 2022, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, Finalist

Taha Ahsin - Finance

• MFA Doctoral Symposium (2022), Finalist
• SFA Doctoral Student Paper Runners-Up Award (2022)

Jing Huang - Finance

• European Finance Association Best Conference Paper Prize 2021 for Open Banking: Credit Market Competition when Borrowers Own the Data
• Western Finance Association Best Paper in FinTech 2022, for "Fintech Expansion"

YoungJun Song - Finance

• Most Influential Faculty Award

Sean Fath - Management & Organizations

• Selected for AOM Best Paper Proceedings (top 10% of accepted papers)

Xiaoran Li - Management & Organizations

• Academy of Management (AOM) OB Division Best Reviewer Award 2024

Anyi Ma - Management & Organizations

• Lepage Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Faculty Award
• Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Outstanding Dissertation Award 2020

Jessica Paek - Management & Organizations

• Lim Kim San Fellowship at Singapore Management University 2022
• Kenan Institute for Ethics Graduate Fellowship 2021–2022
• Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper Award, Academy of Management Meeting, Conflict Management Division 2021
• Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity Graduate Student Scholarship 2021

Rebecca Ponce de Leon - Management & Organizations

• The Fuqua School of Business' Best Dissertation Award 2021-2022
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Advancing Research and Creativity Grant 2022
• Winner, INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition 2021

Jessica Reif - Management & Organizations

• Teaching on Purpose Fellowship, Kenan Institute for Ethics (2024)
• Best Student Poster Award, Honorable Mention - Society for Judgment and Decision Making (2022)

Rodrigo Dias - Marketing

• JCR Ferber Award
• MSI Alden-Clayton Dissertation Proposal Competition (Honorable Mention)
• AMA CBSig Rising Star Award (2023)
• AMA Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow
• AMA CBSig Rising Star Award
• AMA Mathew Joseph Emerging Scholar Award
• SCP 2023 Best Competitive Paper Finalist

Holly Howe - Marketing

• AMA Sheth Consortium Fellow 2020
• Society of Consumer Psychology, Best Poster Award - Beyond Persuasion: Developing a Framework of Communication Patterns in Joint Decision-Making

Jacqueline Rifkin - Marketing

• Co-Principal Investigator, The Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business Research Grant 2022
• Best Talk Award 2022, Society for Consumer Psychology Conference (Interpersonal Relations & Group Processes Track)
• Early Career Faculty Award 2021, University of Missouri-Kansas City Emeritus College

Boya Xu - Marketing

• 2024 ASA Statistics in Marketing Doctoral Dissertation Research Award Finalist
• AMA Sheth Consortium Fellow 2023
• Co-Principal Investigator, NET Institute Research Grant 2023
• INFORMS Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2021, 2023

Chenghuai Li - Operations Management

• 2023 POMS College of Sustainable Operations Early-stage Doctoral Student Award
• 2023 POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, Second Place
• 2023 INFORMS Minority Issues Forum Poster Competition, Honorable Mention
• 2022 INFORMS OR/MS Tomorrow Mini-Poster Competition, Honorable Mention
• 2022 YinzOR Conference Flash Talk Competiton, Fan Favorite Award
• 2022 Winner, Best Paper Competition, Digital Supply Chain and Supplier Diversity Conference

Yuexing Li - Operations Management

• INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Competition, Winner 2020 - Data-driven Clustering and Feature-based Retail Electricity Pricing with Smart Meters

Chen-An Lin - Operations Management

• College of Sustainable Operations Student Paper Award, Honorable Mention 2021 - Wait Time Based Pricing for Queues with Customer-Chosen Service Times

Larisa Cioaca - Strategy

• 2024-2025 Katherine G. Stern Fellowship, Duke University Graduate School
• 2024 Junior Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George Mason University

Divya Sebastian - Strategy

• Recipient of the Duke India Initiative Grant ($2020)
• Duke Graduate School Bass Instructional Fellow

Lia Sheer - Strategy

• The Fuqua School of Business' Best Dissertation Award 2020-2021

What areas of study do you offer?

We have study concentrations in the following areas: Accounting, Decision Sciences, Finance, Marketing, Management and Organizations, Operations Management and Strategy.

Could you evaluate my chances of admissions to the program?

Please be advised, we cannot offer assessment of candidacy to applicants or provide feedback to re-applicants. The admission decision is made by faculty in each area and awarded on a competitive basis, after evaluating all applications. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.

Do you have online or part time options for your degree program?

No, online or part time options are not available for our doctoral program.

Do you have to be in residence during the program?

Students are required to be in residence during their coursework (2-3 years) and are highly encouraged to remain in residence for the remainder of the program. On average, students complete the program in 5 years.

I have a graduate degree. Could I be exempt from the GRE/GMAT test requirement?

The GMAT or GRE is required for admission to the Business Administration Program. The GMAT or GRE cannot be waived under any circumstance.

Is there a minimum score for GMAT or GRE?

There is no minimum score requirement, although successful applicants tend to have competitive scores.

If I have an MBA degree, will that make a difference?

Some students have an MBA or another master's degree before entering the program. However, an MBA or another master's degree is not required for admissions.

Is work experience required?

No, it is not required.

Are interviews required as part of the admissions process?

No, they are not required, although some areas may choose to conduct preliminary interviews prior to final admission decisions.

How many recommendation letters are required?

Three recommendation letters are required.

What financial assistance is available for doctoral students?

Fuqua offers fellowships to all doctoral students, including international students. This fellowship pays for tuition, a competitive stipend for living expenses, and single person health fees. The fellowship is renewable for up to five years of doctoral education, conditional on good academic standing in the program. Additional funding in the form of research and teaching assistantships is also available to PhD students. For information about financial aid, please see https://gradschool.duke.edu/financial-support.

Your admission to the PhD program will include stipends, tuition and registration, and health fees for up to ten semesters, provided you are making satisfactory progress in the program.  Other forms of financial assistance include:

• Desktop computer
• Support for approved academic travel
• Assistance in seeking funding from the Graduate School and outside sources

Teaching and research assistantships are available for supplementary funding.  For additional information about financial aid, please see https://gradschool.duke.edu/financial-support.

Can I visit the Fuqua School of Business?

The PhD office is unable to offer school tours or individual meetings with Fuqua faculty before the pre-admit season begins. Contacting faculty prior to application submission is not necessary. Due to the volume of inquiries, faculty members regret that they are unable to respond to all inquiries. Prospective students are encouraged to learn about faculty research.

Do you have a resource guide for Duke and the greater Durham area?

Duke Graduate School and the Emerging Leaders Institute have surveyed current students and created The Professional's Guide to Duke and Durham to answer common questions for incoming students.

Duke's Graduate School

The answers to the following frequently asked questions can be found at the Duke's Graduate School general webpage:

• How do I apply to the PhD Program?
• Do I need to provide TOEFLs or IELTS scores?
• What is the minimum ESL-related score?
• If I have an admissions question, who do I contact?
• How much is the application fee?
• Are official documents required during the application review process?
• My transcript is not in English, do I need to provide a translation?
• What if I retake the GRE or GMAT, which score is considered?
• How can I check the status of my application?