Doctorate in Business Administration

Programme Structure

The Hult DBA is a 30-month (2.5 year) program with a combination of on-campus residencies at our campuses around the world and structured online learning that can be completed anywhere.

Defining your research: Your program starts with the identification of a problem that is directly relevant to your everyday business practice. These should be complex challenges that directly and materially impact company performance. Through the collection of original data, you’ll learn and conduct different types of quantitative analyses, which you’ll then use to create novel insights and tools to help you—and managers like you—solve the issue.

Residencies: You’ll travel to one of Hult's campuses in London, San Francisco, and Dubai three times each year to work face-to-face with your peers and professors. You’ll also meet once every two weeks for online sessions to learn new skills and maintain momentum for your academic studies.

Outputs: By the conclusion of the program, you will have written three publishable academic papers, led two workshops to guide students, clients, or peers from your company through the application of your solution, and produced your final dissertation. Finally, you will defend this dissertation in front of a panel of academic scholars.

Audience

"We are looking for DBA candidates who are curious. People who want to develop research skills that can have an impact not just on the development of theory, but to help solve real problems. They also need an appetite for learning in a fast-paced, dynamic, and innovative business school." — Dr. Vicki Culpin, Professor of Organizational Behavior

Lecturers

Faculty at Hult are focused on helping students apply tools and theories to solve major, contemporary business problems. The faculty selected to teach in the Doctorate in Business Administration are prolific, award-winning researchers in both academic and practitioner-related channels.