Executive Doctorate of Business Administration

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.