Coursework
Courses in the PhD Programme are divided into four types:
- Core courses that all students in the programme must complete
- Subject area specific courses
- Electives
- Off campus courses
Compulsory Courses
All students
- Foundations of Business Research
Accounting, Economics and Finance
- Econometrics
- Microeconomics II
Organisational Behaviour and Strategic and International Management
- Statistical Research Methods
- Microeconomics I
- Basic Readings in Business
- Research Design
- Strategy Process
- Macro OB
Management Science and Operations
- Statistical Research Methods
- Microeconomics I or II
- Basic Readings in Business
- Research Design
Marketing
- Statistical research Methods or Econometrics
- Basic Readings in Business
- Research Design
Specialised Courses
Students are required to select from the following courses based on their chosen specialisation. Additional courses from the following list may be taken as electives. Please note that not all courses are offered every year.
- PhD Seminars in Accounting I and II
- Statistical Time Series Analysis
- Topics in Optimisation: Robust Optimisation
- Service Management
- Stochastic Modelling
- Advanced Statistical Research Methods II
- Topics in Macroeconomics
- International Macroeconomics
- Topics in Game Theory
- Industrial Organisation
- Advanced Macroeconomics
- PhD Seminar in Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Financial Economics I – Introduction to Finance
- Financial Economics II – Corporate Finance
- Financial Economics III – Financial Econometrics
- Continuous Time Finance
- Bayesian Statistical Modelling
- Marketing models
- Proseminar in Marketing
- Price Discrimination
- Social Perception Research
- Behavioural Decision Research
- Technology and Supply Chain Management
- Macro Organisational Behaviour
- Micro Organisational Behaviour
- Current Topics and Trends in Organisational Research
- Seminar in Ethics
- Groups and Teams
- Seminar in Influence and Persuasion
- Strategy Content
- Strategy Process
- Strategy Research Methods
Electives
With the agreement of their supervisor, students are able to take MBA and Masters in Finance electives at London Business School depending on availability. This may be a requirement for most students without an MBA or other Masters degree.
Courses at other University of London Colleges
Students at London Business School may be able to take courses at other University of London colleges.
Courses typically taken include: methods of economic investigation, microeconomics, quantitative macroeconomics, econometric theory, game theory, quantitative analysis in social research, social research design, concepts and methods in social enquiry, contemporary social psychology, organisational social psychology, methods of research in social psychology, time series and stochastic processes.
