NUS Business School Ph.D. Program 1. 2 Dean’s Message The NUS business school aims to build an intellectual family that is characterized by its intellectual

1

NUS Business School Ph.D. Program

NUS Business SchoolPh.D. Program

2


Dean’s Message

The NUS business school aims to build an intellectual family that is characterized by its intellectual curiosity and devotion to making a difference in society through teaching and research. In our doctoral programmes, we seek out students who believe in taking advantage of the enormous research opportunities that exist in Asia to create knowledge that makes basic contributions, that solves research questions in this region and that contributes to the world’s progress.As the dean, I whole heartedly welcome you to consider joining our intellectual family; the NUS would most devotedly support and facilitate your intellectual endeavor. Sincerely yours,

Bernard Yeung

3


ABOUT NUS BUSINESS SCHOOL

ONE OF THE TOP SCHOOLS IN ASIAForty years of education experience in businessTop 100 business school globally and top 3 in Asia Pacific areaTop 20 by Times Higher EducationRecently ranked top 30 globally in EMBA program by Financial Times

ONE OF THE TOP RESEARCH SCHOOLS IN ASIA

UTD ranking of 50 worldwide; No.2 in Asia Pacific Faculty members hold doctorates from the best universities in the world such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Chicago.Regularly published in top tier journals, hold membership of editorial board of leading journals

4


ABOUT NUS BUSINESS SCHOOL WORLD CLASS FACILITIES AND RESOURCES

New S$70 million NUS business school building in 2009Campus-wide wireless connectionExcellent computing facilities provided to doctoral students – individual desktop, more advanced computing facilities, such as workstationOnline access to most of the major journals, databases, and computer programsSoftware purchase includes GAUSS, MATLAB, SAS, Mathematica and SPSSHon Sui Sen Memorial Library, Central Library and Chinese Library

.

5


Strength of the Research Culture & Quality of the Research Output

The School believes that it has a sound research culture, and backs this with very strong researchfunding support and a reasonable research environment. This reflects the major effort made in the lastdecade to convert itself from a teaching oriented school to a research intensive school. This shift hasbeen generally successful, albeit slower than intended.BIZ faculty are expected to publish in leading journals and conference proceedings in their respectivefields, and are increasingly successful in doing so.

The University of Texas Dallas ranking of Business Schools on Research Productivity places the NUS Business School second in Asia-Pacific and fifty first in the world. The same rankings suggest a very positive trajectory for the School’s research. These efforts have been reflected in increasing publications in the very top tier of academic publications.

To encourage high quality publications, the School has a narrow set of journals that it recognizes as Tier1 or Tier 2. While recognizing the tiering of high quality journals by other disciplines, the School providesextra recognition to the 22 Tier 1 journals and 39 Tier 2 journals in its list.

Tier 1

European Journal of Operational Research; Journal of Applied Psychology; Journal of Financial

Economics; Journal of Marketing Research; Management Science; Mathematical Programming;

Operations Research; Organization Science; Strategic Management Journal; The Journal of

Business; International Journal of Production Research

Tier 2

China Economic Review; Harvard Business Review; Information & Management; Journal of Banking

& Finance; Journal of Business Venturing; Journal of Global Optimization; Journal of international

Business Studies; Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science; Omega-International Journal of

Management Science; Operations Research Letters; Marketing Letters

6


Your Home Away from Home...

Graduate Student Apartments

The University has 200 Graduate Student Apartments (GSA) located in Prince George's Park Residences.

The apartments are furnished with beds, mattresses, wardrobes, study tables, book shelves and fans. You are required to provide your own pillow and bed linen (international students may choose to purchase these items after arrival in Singapore). Kitchen and dining areas are equipped with basic cooking appliances and a refrigerator. Residents will have to provide their own cooking utensils, crockery and cutlery. Laundry machines are available within the residence.

NUS has also worked with EM Services to prioritize allocation of accommodation places at yo:HA @ 190 Hostel to NUS students. The hostel block consists of 49 air-conditioned units and 50 non air-conditioned units which are privately managed by EM Services.

Each unit has a living room, kitchen, toilet, shower and 2 bedrooms which can accommodate 4 occupants on twin-sharing basis.

If you have any further questions, you may email [email protected]

7


PhD Opportunities in Biz

Business Policy (Strategy and Business Economies)

Decision Sciences (Operations Management and Management Science)

Finance

Marketing Management

Organization Behavior

8


Why study Accounting?

Ever wonder how accounting policies impact a firms profits and whether they are manipulated by managers or not, or how managers compensation is benchmarked, or how do accounting information translate into share prices, then you should study accounting.

Some questions that are commonly asked in accounting are:

•How do managers make accounting choice decisions?

• Do managers manipulate earnings and what is their impact on firm value?

• What is the role of auditors in providing high quality accounting information to the stock market?

• What is the role of accounting information in determining cost of capital and fundamental value of the firm?

9


MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS OF FACULTY IN DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING

-Financial accounting-How do firms chose accounting policy to determine corporate profits, and what is the role of managerial discretion in making such choices.

-Auditing-What is the audit quality, how can it be measured, what determines audit prices and is there a relation between audit market competition and fees and quality of the audit.

-Managerial accounting-The role of budgets and managers forecast accuracy, how managerial discretion impacts performance vested stock options.

10


Why Study Strategy and Business Policy?

How do firms chose which target to chase in a merger and acquisition?

Which technologies diffuse into the economy and how can a firm strategically position itself to take advantage of it?

How do firms store and transmit knowledge?

How do firms differentiate themselves in a competitive market place?

11


MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS OF FACULTY IN DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS POLICY

– Applied Economics

– Economic Policy and Planning

– International Economics and Trade

– International and Asia-Pacific Business

– Strategic Management and Corporate Planning

– Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship

– Management of Technology

– Business Law

12


Why Study Decision Sciences ?

How do firms optimize their supply chain?

How do firms optimize their service activities and management processes?

How do firms link production with procurement especially electronic procurement?

13


MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS OF FACULTY IN DEPARTMENT OF DECISION SCIENCES

– Manufacturing Systems

– Logistics/Transportation Management

– Production Planning and Control Systems

– Quality Management

– Information Systems Planning

– Database Management

– Queuing Systems

– Inventory Management

14


Why Study Marketing Management?

How do consumers perceive different products and decide which products to buy?

How do firms determine the best way to communicate the messages about their products to consumers?

How do firms acquire and retain consumers?

How do firms determine policies to maximize customer experiences?

15


MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS OF FACULTY IN DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING

– Modeling Consumer Choice Behavior

– Game Theoretic Analysis of Marketing Strategies

– Services Marketing

– Advertising and Promotion

– Marketing Research and New Product Development

– International and Export Marketing

– Industrial Marketing and Retailing

16


Why study Finance?

If you are curious about the workings of the financial markets and how firms manage their finances, then you should study finance.

Some questions that are asked are:

•Do prices in financial markets reflect the rational decisions of investors or are they strongly influenced by the psychological biases (or sentiment) of investors?

•Are stock price changes correlated across markets?

•How can the risks of a portfolio of assets be modeled optimally?

•How do firms raise and manage their capital?

•What is all the fuss about liquidity that newspapers have been talking about recently?

17


MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS OF FACULTY IN DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

-Corporate finance

-How do firms decide on the “optimal mix” of financing? What factors affect their financing costs? Do firms time the market?

-Asset pricing

-How are market values of stock and bonds estimated? How does the process of arbitrage work?

-Derivatives

-What are derivatives, and how are they priced? Do firms use derivatives to manage their financial risks or speculate in financial markets?

-Market Microstructure

-How does the organization of financial markets affect trading costs, liquidity, price discovery, and investor behavior?

18


Why study Management & Organisation?

Are Leaders born or made?

How can Organizations facilitate employee’s “Work/Life Balance”?

What are “Virtual Organizations”? How to create optimal incentive schemes in such organizations?

How should firms devise their Human Resource Management policy in the ear of Globalization?

19


MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS OF FACULTY IN DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION

– Work Attitudes and Career Development

– Occupational Stress Management

– Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations

– Comparative Management

– Women in Management and Expatriate Managers

20


Why do a PhD ?

Are you are curious about how to rigorously answer the questions posed before?

Learn:The theory related to the previous questions and moreHow to test these theoriesDraw inferences from these tests

AchieveBecome a professor at a leading business schoolWork in the finance industry in technically challenging jobsModeling jobs in investment bankingAnalyst’s job leading consulting / market research firms

21


Improvement in Student Placement

PhD Students Institutions

Irene Ng Cheng Leng

(Marketing)

Associate Professor

School of Business & Economics, University of Exeter, UK

Grace Lee Chau Chin

(Management & Organisation)

Lecturer

Department of M&O (NUS)

PhD Program Placement (2004-2005)

22


PhD Students Institution

Lan Luh Luh

(Business Policy)

Associate Professor

Department of Business Policy (NUS)

Tan Boon Seng

(Business Policy)

Assistant Professor

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Patricia Chew Yee Peng

(Marketing)

Lecturer

SIM University, Singapore



23



PhD Students Their whereabouts

Ajay Singh Gaur

(Business Policy)

Assistant Professor

Old Dominion University, USA

Qiu Cheng

(Marketing)

Assistant Professor

University of Hong Kong

Zheng Huan

(Decision Sciences)

Assistant Professor

Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai

Jiang Hao

(Finance)

Assistant Professor of Finance

RSM Erasmus University, The Netherlands

Feng Shanfei

(Marketing)

Lecturer

Monash University


24


On-going Students on Job Market who secured job positions

On-Going PhD students Job Secured

Zhou Yunxia(Finance & Accounting)

Assistant Professor

University of Queensland

Sankalp Chaturvedi

(Management & Organisation)

Assistant Professor

Tanaka Business School

Imperial College London

(with Sept 2008)

Shirish Chandra Srivastava

(Decision Sciences)

Assistant Professor

HEC Paris

(joining Sep 2008)


25


FINANCIAL AID Financial aid for four years is normal. Fifth year financial aid is based on performance. Financial aid for attending conferences is liberal. Additional funds from tutoring or doing TA / RA work

NUS Research ScholarshipThe increased of stipend will take effect from 01 March 2008. Refer to Chart A for new stipendPh.D. students (4 years)

Lee Kong Chian Graduate (LKC) Scholarship $3,300 per month (Refer to Chart B for revised stipend for LKC holders) Includes book , air travel, lap-top allowance

President Graduate Fellowships(PGF) Scholarship

To attract very strong applicants, the PGF will be converted from a ‘top-up’ to a Fellowship with full stipend Refer to Chart C for revised stipend for PGF Holders

Tuition Fees Subsidy Approx $5,000 per year

For more details, kindly refer to http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/sfau/schemes-gd-scholarshipawards.html

Chart A :Revised Research Scholarship Stipends as of 01 March 2008

Stipends RS Pre-PhD QE RS Post-PhD QE

Singapore Citizen $2,300.00 $2,800.00

Singapore Permanent Resident $2,200.00 $2,700.00

International Student $2,000.00 $2,500.00

Chart C: Revised Stipends for PhD Holders

PGF Stipends

Singapore Citizen $3,300.00

Singapore Permanent Resident $3,200.00

International Student $3,000.00

Chart B: Revised Stipends for PhD Holders

LKC Stipends

Singapore Citizen $3,300.00

Singapore Permanent Resident $3,300.00

International Student $3,300.00

26


SCHEMES TO RECOGNIZE GOOD PERFORMERS

Top-up of $500 per month for students who passed Qualifying Exams

Graduate Student Researcher / Teaching Assistant schemes

27


HOW TO START THE PROCESS

Apply to the NUS Business Schoolhttp://www.bschool.nus.edu/Programs/PhD/home.htm

Take the GMAT / GRE TOEFL & TSE & TWEIELTS

Get copies of transcripts

Get recommendation letters from faculty

Think carefully about the essay you want to write

28


PROGRAM STRUCTURE

FULL-TIME PROGRAM

PROGRAM DURATION: 4 -5 YEARS

Coursework (Year 1 & 2)

Preparatory Classes of 3 weeks will commence prior the start of the semester

Summer Paper: All first year students (starting from the AY06/07 cohort) will be required to submit a summer paper at the end of their study in Year 1

Qualifying Exams (End of Year 2)

Thesis Writing, Submission and Defense (Year 3 & beyond)

29


RESEARCH REQUIREMENTS

1st year summer paper

With a professor and topic of your choice

Working papers

Thesis proposal in the third year

Oral defense

30


MINIMUM PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Cap maintenance at 4.0

Pass qualifying exams at the end of the 2nd year

Do your proposal defense before the middle of the fourth year

Be on the job market in the 4th year barring which go in the 5th year

31


APPLICATION TIMELINE

Application deadline 15 Nov (online application)

31 Jan (paper application)

Notify students who are short-listed for interviews

Mid Mar

Interviews (Face to face / Phone) End Mar / Early Apr

Results of interviews End Apr

Send offers letters May

32


CONTACT US

•Websites http://phdmgt.nus.edu.sg

Email us your enquiries [email protected]

•Call us at: 65-6516 4418 (Mdm Hamidah Rabu) 65-6516 4417 (Ms Lim Cheow Loo)

33


3D EXPERIENCE

View the video clips for yourselves:

http://www.bschool.nus.edu/Media/video.htm

34


Welcome to

NUS Business School!

Documents

NUS Business School Ph.D. Program 1. 2 Dean’s Message The NUS business school aims to build an intellectual family that is characterized by its intellectual