If faculty knows of any exceptional students that might be interested, please pass along this message and kindly ask them to join us for one of our two virtual open houses on Wednesday, October 15th at 12pm (12.00) Eastern Time or Monday, October 20th at 7pm (19.00) Eastern Time. Please email Prof. Joe Labianca (glabianca@umass.edu) for the link and to register for the events. Seeking New Ph.D. Students in the Management Department,
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts Amherst – the flagship campus of the UMass system
Are you passionately curious about how organizations operate and how they can reshape our world? We are recruiting exceptional students for our Ph.D. program in Management, with courses beginning in Fall 2026. Applications are currently being accepted until the final deadline on December 15, 2025.
What Distinguishes Our Program?
Our Ph.D. program prepares you for a rewarding and impactful career as a management scholar, professor, and engaged academic addressing real world concerns through:
- An innovative new, contemporary curriculum for all Management Ph.D. students, employing a mix of courses and modules, and a choice between one of two concentration tracks: Organization Studies or Strategic Management. This curriculum will allow you to pursue your passion for knowledge while still being able to work with faculty involved in a diverse set of intra-organizational, inter-organizational, and societal topics, also consistent with UMass -Amherst strategic vision
- For the Common Good
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World-class faculty engaged in leading-edge scholarship including scholarly journal editing, and many years of proven ability to develop doctoral students in a supportive environment, helping them establish great, meaningful careers
- Full-time, year-round, on-campus program with unique levels of interaction with your faculty mentors employing a team-on-individual-student mentoring approach
- Five years of guaranteed stipend and tuition waiver funding, allowing you sufficient time to complete your dissertation and obtain your dream job. Students are also very well-resourced for their travel and research expenses.
Concentration Tracks
- Organization Studies: research topics and courses include, among others, examining diverse workplaces, organization and management roles in promoting social and environmental justice, leading organizations, exploring conflict and emotions in organizations, organizational ethics, designing better organizations using formal and informal structures; social network analysis. If interested, https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/programs/doctoral/admissions. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/programs/doctoral/admissions">Apply here
- Strategic Management: research topics and courses include, among others, innovation, human capital resources, knowledge management, entrepreneurship, sustainability, emerging economies, decision-making, corporate governance, competitive advantage, transnational management. If interested, https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/programs/doctoral/admissions. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/programs/doctoral/admissions">Apply here
Faculty
Our faculty focuses on developing positive mentoring relationships with each student, inviting them into a collaborative scholarly community. Beginning in their first year, students engage intensively in collaborative projects with faculty members in order to develop well-rounded research, teaching, and engaged scholarly skills.
Faculty have placed former students at some of the world's best universities. Their research has been published in the management field's top scholarly journals, has won numerous awards, and has been used by a wide variety of organizations to make important decisions. They serve on editorial boards and as editors of the best academic journals and play influential leadership roles in various divisions of the Academy of Management.
Management Faculty Profiles:
https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/marta-cal-s. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/marta-cal-s">Marta B. Calás (Ph.D., UMass Amherst) – critical organizational analyses; transnational mgmt. https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/ina-ganguli. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/ina-ganguli">Ina Ganguli (Ph.D., Harvard) – social entrepreneurship; scientific knowledge production; innovation https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/emily-heaphy. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/emily-heaphy">Emily Heaphy (Ph.D., U Michigan) – the changing nature of work relationships; emotions; associate editor at the Academy of Management Journal https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/honggi-lee. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/honggi-lee">Honggi Lee (Ph.D., Duke) – innovation; entrepreneurship; intellectual property; tech commercializing Ulya Tsolmon (Ph.D., Duke) – gender gap; organizational structure; corporate strategy https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/feng-qiu. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/feng-qiu">Feng Qiu (Ph.D., U Oregon) – ethics, whistleblowing, helping behaviors, emotions https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/anurag-sharma. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/anurag-sharma">Anurag Sharma (Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill) – strategy & financial markets, MNEs, emerging economies https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/bruce-skaggs. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" href="https://www.isenberg.umass.edu/people/bruce-skaggs">Bruce Skaggs (Ph.D., Penn State) – organizational knowledge creation & coordination; service firms Adaora Ubaka (Ph.D., U Illinois) – leadership perceptions, DEI, organizational communication About Amherst
UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, sits on nearly 1,450 acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The Town of Amherst gracefully combines colonial charm with the vigor of one of New England's major educational centers, the Five College Consortium: Smith, Hampshire, Amherst, and Mount Holyoke Colleges and The University of Massachusetts Amherst. This area of Western Massachusetts offers an exhilarating degree of social, cultural and recreational diversity.
If you are interested in our program, please contact the Management Ph.D. Program Coordinator, Prof. Joe (Giuseppe) Labianca at glabianca@umass.edu, for more information. Quick links
Marta B. Calás
Professor of Organization Studies
and International Management
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003 USA