EXECUTIVE DOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT (EDM)

An EDM degree from the Weatherhead School of Management offers practicing executives unparalleled benefits, including:

• An understanding of managing organizations in the context of broad issues such as culture and politics, technology and social system design, and institutional approaches to problem solving.
• An interdisciplinary, integrative, global perspective on critical organizational and social issues.
• A unique approach to intellectual inquiry emphasizing the integration of theory and practice.
• The opportunity to define and conduct issue-oriented research allowing participants to customize their studies and to contribute to applied management knowledge.
• Intellectual development and personal growth as an individual, as an executive and as a contributor to one’s community and society.
• A prestigious doctoral degree achieved through a rigorous, structured and comprehensive educational experience for the working professional.

Is the EDM the right choice for you? Ask yourself these questions:

• Do I have an intellectual curiosity?
• Do I enjoy reading and expressing my own ideas in writing?
• Do I get satisfaction from working with concepts, and seeing patterns and relationships between ideas?
• Do I believe that important organizational and social issues can be addressed through the development of knowledge?
• Am I receptive to learning through systematic inquiry, both qualitative and quantitative?
• Do I have the motivation to conduct solid research and contribute to applied knowledge?
• Can I contribute to a community of diverse persons seeking to build concepts about how the world works?
• Do I have the drive and time to complete a rigorous, three-year doctoral program?