Executive Doctorate of Business Administration

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Executive Doctorate of Business Administration

Give your Passion and Expertise a voice

A CRAFTED LEARNING EXPERIENCE

The École des Ponts Executive DBA (E-DBA) is a carefully crafted and time-tested doctoral program, which grants a professional doctoral
degree (also known as a ‘terminal degree’), specially-designed for experienced executives wishing to pursue a degree beyond the MBA (or
other master’s-level degree).

This distinctive program is challenging yet compatible with the busy lives of working professionals from around the globe. The École des Ponts Business School E-DBA is uniquely oriented towards grounding the emerging practices of today’s business world in the rigors of academic theory and practice.

We will help you to define your unique Subject-Matter Expertise so that you can create exciting new opportunities in the next steps of your career. As a “learner-centric” innovative program, you are free to choose a research focus in line with your experience, free to choose the form that your doctoral project will take, and free to choose the supervisor you will work with. You are even free to change your focus during the program.

We are here to support you in your unique doctoral project, with proprietary tools, templates and guidelines, all at your own pace.
After 10 years of experience, we know how to help you finish on time and at a level of quality that you will be proud of for the rest of your life.

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A CRAFTED LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Are you an experienced business professional looking to advance your career and deepen your expertise in a specific area of business? Are you ready to take your career to the next level and become a thought leader in your industry?

Our Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (E-DBA) program may be the perfect fit for you. Our program will help you develop new skills and knowledge that can be applied to your professional and personal life. You will have the opportunity to stay up to date on developments in your research topic of choice and gain a deeper understanding of key business concepts and theories.

Our Executive DBA program requires you to conduct original research providing a rewarding intellectual challenge and the opportunity to contribute to your field.

Our Executive DBA in A Nutshell

Important
Dates

For Busy
Professionals

Freedom

A Professional Degree

Program start:
14 October 2024

Final application deadline:

23 September 2024

4 years of part-time study, research and a unique support
system to accompany you.

Get the freedom to choose your subject matter, the format of your work and your pace.

After Year 1, you work with your supervisor(s) at your own pace.

For experienced professionals (minimum 10 years of experience with a recognized or developing expertise) who wish to study beyond an (Executive) MBA, or other advanced professional degree (Master's-level minimum).

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Our Executive DBA in A Nutshell

Important
Dates

Program start:
14 October 2024

Final application deadline:

23 September 2024

For Busy
Professionals

4 years of part-time study, research and a unique support
system to accompany you.

Freedom

Get the freedom to choose your subject matter, the format of your work and your pace.

After Year 1, you work with your supervisor(s) at your own pace.

A Professional Degree

For experienced professionals (minimum 10 years of experience with a recognized or developing expertise) who wish to study beyond an (Executive) MBA, or other advanced professional degree (Master's-level minimum).

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Why an E-DBA?

Challenge Yourself

One of the key objectives that motivates applicants to join our E-DBA program is the desire to be intellectually challenged in a meaningful way, which contributes to creating a wide range of future professional opportunities: Speaking engagements, teaching in undergraduate and graduate programs, expertise-based consulting opportunities, corporate governance roles, and more.

Differentiate Yourself

For many senior managers, the E-DBA gives them the ability to lead more efficiently and differentiate themselves from the Master’s-level staff they manage. The E-DBA often opens opportunities for corporate governance (e.g. board member) and strategic roles (C-suite).

Gain Recognition

Some graduates venture into academic endeavors, cultivating the joys of conducting serious research, writing and publishing practical as well as theoretical articles, to establish themselves as recognized subject-matter experts and thought leaders.

Why an
E-DBA?

Challenge Yourself

One of the key objectives that motivates applicants to join our E-DBA program is the desire to be intellectually challenged in a meaningful way, which contributes to creating a wide range of future professional opportunities: Speaking engagements, teaching in undergraduate and graduate programs, expertise-based consulting opportunities, corporate governance roles, and more.

Differentiate Yourself

For many senior managers, the E-DBA gives them the ability to lead more efficiently and differentiate themselves from the Master’s-level staff they manage. The E-DBA often opens opportunities for corporate governance (e.g. board member) and strategic roles (C-suite).

Gain Recognition

Some graduates venture into academic endeavors, cultivating the joys of conducting serious research, writing and publishing practical as well as theoretical articles, to establish themselves as recognized subject-matter experts and thought leaders.

Program Structure

Phase One:

Doctoral Student

Phase Two:

Doctoral Candidate

Phase Three:

Doctoral Graduate

Year 1

Four residential sessions of one
week each with foundational research methods, literature review, Learning Labs, definition of

Doctoral Project.

Years 2-4

Doctoral Project Proposal submission, supervisor attribution, doctoral research and thesis.

Year 4

Viva Voce (doctoral defense) and graduation ceremony.

Program Structure

Phase One:

Doctoral Student

Year 1

Four residential sessions of one
week each with foundational research methods, literature review, Learning Labs, definition of Doctoral Project.

Phase Two:

Doctoral Candidate

Years 2-4

Doctoral Project Proposal submission, supervisor attribution, doctoral research and thesis.

Phase Three:

Doctoral Graduate

Year 4

Viva Voce (doctoral defense) and graduation ceremony.

Join a Growing Global Brain Trust

Our E-DBA program is divided into two main phases:

Phase 1: Doctoral Student phase
- A toolbox to develop new skills

This is the learning phase of the program covered in Year 1, which is composed of 4 x 1 week-long residential sessions delivered in hybrid mode
(face-to-face and/or online simultaneously).
During these 4 residential sessions, participants complete 4 research methods modules:

  • Introduction to Research Methods
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Case Study Methods

Participants also take part in unique labs and workshops to help build their research project and learn how to establish their expertise:

  • Learning Lab
  • Futures Literacy Lab
    Doctoral Writing Labs
  • Subject-Matter Expert Workshop
    At the end of Phase 1, participants are coached on how to define their Doctoral Project and its format (3-paper approach, dissertation, or themed book).
    They are then matched with one or several supervisors to start the next phase of the program.

Brain Trusts and Doctoral Writing Labs - Support systems

From the onset of the program, which starts with the Learning Lab, participants form peer groups called Brain Trusts to create a unique internal support system -- a sounding board to discuss and challenge ideas.

In Phase 2, all Doctoral Candidates are invited to participate in Doctoral Writing Labs to continue to feel connected to the school and benefit from additional faculty and peer support.

Doctoral Candidates continue to support each other within their Brain Trusts and become part of a bigger, cross-cohort Brain Trust of E-DBA participants from previous years further along the path to completing their papers.

Phase 2: Doctoral Candidate phase - A safe space to research and write with your supervisor(s)

To mark the successful completion of Phase 1, participants are conferred a blockchain-based certificate awarding them the title of Doctoral Candidate.

This signifies the start of the next phase of the program, the research and writing segment, covered in Years 2, 3 and 4 of the program. Participants conduct their research using the skills acquired in Phase 1 of the program and work with their supervisor(s) to write their papers.

The Doctoral Writing Labs allow participants to apply and practice the skills acquired in Phase 1 of the program to the papers that comprise their Doctoral Project.

At the end of Phase 2 of the program, Doctoral Candidates submit their Doctoral Project and if this is approved and accepted, they move on to the final step, the Viva Voce (oral defense).

As soon as the Viva Voce is successfully completed, the Doctoral Candidate is awarded the title of Doctor.

Join a Growing Global Brain Trust

Our E-DBA program is divided into two main phases:

Phase 1: Doctoral Student phase
- A toolbox to develop new skills

This is the learning phase of the program covered in Year 1, which is composed of 4 x 1 week-long residential sessions delivered in hybrid mode
(face-to-face and/or online simultaneously).
During these 4 residential sessions, participants complete 4 research methods modules:

  • Introduction to Research Methods
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Case Study Methods

Participants also take part in unique labs and workshops to help build their research project and learn how to establish their expertise:

  • Learning Lab
  • Futures Literacy Lab
    Doctoral Writing Labs
  • Subject-Matter Expert Workshop
    At the end of Phase 1, participants are coached on how to define their Doctoral Project and its format (3-paper approach, dissertation, or themed book).
    They are then matched with one or several supervisors to start the next phase of the program.

Brain Trusts and Doctoral Writing Labs - Support systems

From the onset of the program, which starts with the Learning Lab, participants form peer groups called Brain Trusts to create a unique internal support system -- a sounding board to discuss and challenge ideas.

In Phase 2, all Doctoral Candidates are invited to participate in Doctoral Writing Labs to continue to feel connected to the school and benefit from additional faculty and peer support.

Doctoral Candidates continue to support each other within their Brain Trusts and become part of a bigger, cross-cohort Brain Trust of E-DBA participants from previous years further along the path to completing their papers.

Phase 2: Doctoral Candidate phase - A safe space to research and write with your supervisor(s)

To mark the successful completion of Phase 1, participants are conferred a blockchain-based certificate awarding them the title of Doctoral Candidate.

This signifies the start of the next phase of the program, the research and writing segment, covered in Years 2, 3 and 4 of the program. Participants conduct their research using the skills acquired in Phase 1 of the program and work with their supervisor(s) to write their papers.

The Doctoral Writing Labs allow participants to apply and practice the skills acquired in Phase 1 of the program to the papers that comprise their Doctoral Project.

At the end of Phase 2 of the program, Doctoral Candidates submit their Doctoral Project and if this is approved and accepted, they move on to the final step, the Viva Voce (oral defense).

As soon as the Viva Voce is successfully completed, the Doctoral Candidate is awarded the title of Doctor.

Our Suject-Matter Experts

Meet some of our talented E-DBA graduates

Dr. Stephen Broadhurst
(United Kingdom)

Senior Business Transformation Manager

"Today and with sincere thanks to École des Ponts Business School, the Executive DBA program, and my excellent dissertation supervisor, my thinking and situation have since proved that unexpected opportunities and doors do certainly open when you want them to."

Dr.Bharat Madan
(Luxembourg)

Managing
Partner | CEO

"The E-DBA has been quite wholesome for me. I was already getting good traction at my job in the industry because of my newly earned title which validated my opinion about Innovation and Entrepreneurial thinking. However, at the personal level, it inspired me to leave the comforts of a corporate leadership role and embark upon an entrepreneurial journey."

Dr. Uwe Jürgen Bauer
(Germany)

Chief Joy
Officer

"Doing an Executive DBA at the École des Ponts Business School was an exceptional journey for me. I really enjoyed the atmosphere of this unique business school. It was, in particular, inspiring and enriching being in a truly international cohort of 24 doctorate students from 19 countries."

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