Leading Through Innovation
Innovation at Haas is not a discipline or function, but a mindset—a way of approaching all endeavors. It's an additional set of skills you cultivate to confer distinctiveness to your work as a researcher and as an educator. In the Haas School Ph.D. Program, you discover how to challenge conventional wisdom, pushing the boundaries of current thought to open new avenues of knowledge and understanding.

You set this expansion in motion by leveraging the reputation and resources of one of the world's best research universities – UC Berkeley. Ph.D. students at Haas are educated in a rigorous multidisciplinary program offering breadth, scope, far-reaching opportunity, and a world-class reputation. Haas alumni benefit from the experience and connections of a faculty composed of today's leaders in business scholarship and education. Students in the doctoral program at Haas benefit from cultural diversity and a global perspective within a highly select student body.

The Haas School at UC Berkeley is an intellectual community poised at the cutting edge of business knowledge. Widely held to be among the best places to live in the United States, the San Francisco Bay Area is also at the center of one of the most exciting, successful, and innovative business environments in the world.

Your Passport to an Exciting Academic Future
Graduates of the Ph.D. Program at Haas enjoy excellent prospects for placement at the world's top academic institutions. In the best tradition of advanced scholarship, the Haas Ph.D. Program offers a first-rate course of study in business functions and interactions with the social environment. The in-depth examination of one or more traditional fields of study combines with a broader, integrated investigation of basic and applied theory in the social sciences and quantitative methods. The program includes intensive formal courses as well as individually developed reviews of special topics and research programs. Students work closely with the school’s internationally known faculty, both in the classroom and independently.

Students may choose from six areas of concentration, including accounting, business and public policy, finance, marketing, organizational behavior and industrial relations, and real estate. These concentrations can then be supplemented with optional in-depth study in economic analysis and policy, and international business. Training is completed with specialized courses in other departments, including economics, sociology, psychology, political science, math, and statistics. This allows students to create highly diverse and intensive programs of scholarship.

The Ph.D. Program trains men and women for careers in the research, study, and teaching of the sophisticated technical and theoretical disciplines underlying business administration. These skills have become mandatory for jobs in academia and are increasingly important in business and government, as well as in consulting, research, and technical advisory firms. Although some Ph.D. graduates take positions as administrators in large companies, the Berkeley MBA Program at the Haas School is a more appropriate course of study for those seeking a professional degree in preparation for high-level administrative positions.