Ready to start your academic career? Erasmus Doctoral Programme in Business and Management Make your academic mark Facts and figures

• More than 200 international research on international business ­seminars, workshops and conferences each year • Strong ERIM presence in top Since its founding in 1999, the ­Erasmus ERIM is the largest and most prominent research academic journals Research Institute of ­Management institute at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), • Erasmus University Rotterdam is ranked comprising researchers and professors from number 3 in Business Administration and (ERIM) has created a distinctive Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus number 4 in Management (ARWU 2020) ­environment for the ­development University (RSM) and the Erasmus School of • ERIM currently supports a community of Economics (ESE). ERIM is also the university’s around 250 senior researchers and of internationally-­recognised graduate school in business and management. 160 doctoral students management research. ERIM provides ERIM currently supports around 160 doctoral • Five research programmes spanning the ideal platform from which to students – they are the next generation of all areas of management research: management scholars. ERIM’s purpose is the Business Processes, Logistics & launch a world-class academic career ongoing creation and dissemination of new Information Systems; Organisation; for any ambitious researcher­ with an knowledge with relevance and benefits for Marketing; Finance & Accounting; the international business and academic Strategy & Entrepreneurship excellent educational record and communities, and to students in EUR’s pre- and • Research Initiatives which focus on strong motivation. post-experience programmes. specific areas of research interest • Access to EUR’s state-of-the-art ­behavioural lab, extensive range “At ERIM, we will train you to be an of databases and excellent

academic who creates positive social impact.“ computing facilities.

Professor Flore Bridoux, ERIM Director of Doctoral Education

The challenging, cutting-edge Erasmus sociology to engineering and from geophysics Bringing ­Doctoral Programme will bring out the very to economics and a good gender-balance, best in you – as a scientist, a teacher, and an which enriches the ‘ERIM experience’ influential thinker in the international arena of enormously. out the best management research. The English-taught programme includes systematic coaching and State-of-the-art research infrastructure academic and personal development from Students have access to state-of-the-art in you leading academics. The advantages of carrying research facilities such as computing facilities, out doctoral research at ERIM are significant. the Erasmus Behavioural Lab, and the Erasmus ERIM’s full-time doctoral programme This is an ­excellent place to start your academic Data Service Centre, which provides access to career. financial and social science databases, as well – the Erasmus Doctoral Programme in as running workshops and providing Business and Management – is focused Academically rigorous and highly selective individual support. The Erasmus Doctoral Programme in Business on developing and nurturing inter­ and Management holds rigorous, exciting years ERIM community national academic talent. It enables of research training and doctoral dissertation You will have the opportunity to work within promising students to develop into work, depending upon your educational the ERIM community, known worldwide for its background. The strict entry requirements for research excellence. You will receive personal ‘thought leaders’ and become top ERIM PhD candidates mean that you join a supervision by distinguished international researchers at the world’s best univer- community of some of the most promising professors. Your supervisors will be some of young academics in the world. the best-known scholars in their field, who will sities and business schools. Depending expertly guide your progress and follow your on the PhD project, generous funding From all over the world research and its potential for adding to ERIM attracts international PhD candidates. management knowledge with genuine can be generated for four or five years; They represent more than 30 nationalities, interest throughout the programme. further extensions are possible. a variety of academic backgrounds from Your place at the top

We take the time to understand, support and coach you for a stimulating, prestigious academic career to ensure that you have the skills and mindset needed to create a winning profile in the increasingly competitive international job market.

ERIM offers job placement advice and guidance, and courses that help you develop your academic writing, publication, presentation and teaching skills in order to prepare you for an academic career at the top of your field.

ERIM PhD profile Enrolled PhD candidates 150 - 170 Gender diversity 36% Female Nationalities 31 International 65% ERIM Alumni 324 Average age 26 Relevant, high-quality research with specialisms

Throughout its activities ERIM has five distinct development and testing of fundamental corporate finance, corporate governance, real areas of research in management. theory in the area of applied organisational estate finance, financialaccounting, ­ financial research. ­econometrics, financial markets, investments, • Business Processes, Logistics & ­management accounting and risk management. Information Systems (LIS) • Marketing (MKT) Organised around three themes: The MKT programme has produced an • Strategy & Entrepreneurship (S&E) business operations, next generation informati- impressive record of publications, putting it Staunchly multidisciplinary, the S&E on systems and supply chain management, the among the best in the world. It achieved the ­programme focuses on strategic­ renewal LIS programme focuses on innovation and second-highest number of publications of and firm performance, and how the drivers optimisation in specific research fields such as any business school outside North America in of both can bring about purposeful change logistics, supply chain management, innovation the top four academic journals for marketing. within organisations. It presents topics such as management, transportation, inventories, MKT scholars work on sub-areas of marketing strategy, entrepreneurship, strategic renewal, terminal operations, sustainability, procurement, (consumer behaviour, marketing strategy, ­managerial roles, top management teams public transport, business networks, information marketing modelling and ­neuromarketing), and leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, and communication systems and technologies. while also contributing regularly to top strategic innovation, exploitation,­ exploration, In this way it contributes to both management journals for the scientific disciplines and ambidexterity and international business. research and management practice. ­foundational to marketing (e.g., psychology, econometrics and neuroscience). • Organisation (ORG) Exploring issues such as business • Finance & Accounting (F&A) ethics, corporate governance, ­innovation, The F&A programme contributes significantly organisational behaviour, ­sustainability, to management science and management ­leadership, and analysis of teams from practice through a combination of research, micro- to the macro-level. The focus of knowledge transfer, co-creation­ and education ERIM’s ORG programme is on the ­ on research topics such as asset management,­ “At ERIM you get a world class research environment – it is ­incredible the way ERIM is willing to invest in the development of its PhDs.“

Dr Mariano L.M. Heyden, ERIM PhD Alumnus, Associate Professor of Strategy & International Business at Monash Business School • ERIM PhD students receive a generous employment contract through Erasmus University Rotterdam. This brings a wide variety of benefits to participants, such as stability of funding, labour protection, holiday allowance, end year bonus, pension contribution, and much more

• Generous financial support for conferences, international research visits, data collection and other research activities through ERIM Support Programmes

Research • Personal supervision by distinguished international professors support • Job Placement support

• State-of-the-art research facilities such as Excellent research demands the Erasmus Behavioural Lab and the Erasmus excellent support. ERIM employs “ERIM provides PhD students Data Service Centre a series of support and quality with a strong foundation for an international academic • Annual ERIM Summer School which offers ­instruments, which together short, specific courses to boost research skills career.“ ensure a level of financial and Dr Eelco Kappe, • Skills training to support a successful personal support that is among ERIM PhD Alumnus, Assistant academic career such as presentation and the best in the world. Professor of Marketing at teaching skills, publishing strategy and more. Pennsylvania State University Your academic career starts here Become part of ERIM – apply!

Are you ambitious, demanding, and Admissions and application driven by the desire to develop your Do you have what it takes to handle the rigorous PhD programme at ERIM? personal research interests into relevant, influential and published knowledge? • You possess a university Master’s degree in business or economics, or from related fields Do you want to work with the world’s such as psychology, sociology, engineering or top professors, and join a group of the industrial engineering, or mathematics, best, brightest and most diverse inter­ depending on PhD project; • You are driven by an interest in and motivation national scholars? Does your vision of towards scientific research; the future include a prestigious aca­ • You have a history of excellent performance in your previous degree or graduate study; demic career in a reputable university­ • You are fluent in English, with a recent TOEFL Full information about the admissions or business school? Then the Erasmus score of 600 on paper, 100 online, or IELTS and application procedure for the ERIM minimum score of 7.5; Doctoral Programme in Business and Doctoral Programme in Business and • You have high recent GMAT or GRE scores of Management visit: Management is the place to be. 85% or better. www.erim.eur.nl/doctoral-programme Application data

ERIM PhD at a glance ERIM’s admission procedure is very selective to guarantee that if you are accepted, you join the highest quality research environment and some of the best high-potential researchers from around the world. Can you see yourself at ERIM?

Fall 2019 enrolment

Highest quality 100% GRE GRE 24 Quantitative Verbal Admission fully funded newly enrolled students 167 157 rate: <5% Average 62% GMAT 71% female 27 international average age 725 students Application data Placements

ERIM PhD at a glance Where do ERIM PhDs work? ERIM’s admission procedure is very selective to guarantee that if you are accepted, An academic career is the most popular choice among ERIM PhD graduates, you join the highest quality research environment and some of the best high-potential researchers and in fact around 70 per cent of ERIM PhD alumni continue with an academic career. from around the world. Can you see yourself at ERIM? ERIM PhD alumni are now working at many of the best universities and business schools in the world, such as:

• BI Norwegian Business School • IMD Business School • Saïd Business School of Fall 2018 enrolment • Bilkent University • King’s College London University of Oxford • Bocconi University • Koç University • Singapore Management University • Católica Lisbon • KU Leuven • The University of Melbourne Highest quality 100% GRE GRE • Concordia University • Luiss University • Tilburg University Quantitative Verbal fully funded 20 Admission • Cornell University • McGill University • The Hong Kong University of newly enrolled rate: • ESMT Berlin • Michigan State University Science and Technology students 156 164 <6% • ESSEC Business School • Monash University • University of Amsterdam • ETH Zürich • New York University • University of California Los Angeles • Florida State University • Northwestern University • University of Cambridge Average 35% • Fudan University China • Nova School of Business and Economics • University of Colorado Boulder GMAT 85% female • Georgia Institute of Technology • Pennsylvania State University • University of Florida 25 • HEC Paris • Pompeu Fabra University • University of Maryland international • IE Business School • Queensland University of Technology • University of Toronto average age 712 students • INSEAD • Renmin University of China • Warwick Business School Ever-changing Rotterdam

The city of Rotterdam is a modern The city, which has been flagged as a ‘must see’ in the New York Times, metropolis built around the largest Lonely Planet, and The Guardian, offers port in Europe. Home to citizens Erasmus University Rotterdam the ideal representing more than 160 academic laboratory for developing its scientific knowledge and putting it into ­nationalities, 50,000 students and practice. The University plays a prominent many multinational companies, role in Rotterdam by making substantial ­contributions in such areas as health care Rotterdam is a microcosm of the and the economic and socio-cultural world, a young dynamic city that development of the city and the region. keeps reinventing itself. Colophon

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“Doing your PhD at ERIM is a major milestone towards academic career success.“

Professor Pursey Heugens, Scientific Director ERIM The Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) is the joint research institute of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). The research undertaken by ERIM is focused on management of the fi rm in its environment, its intra- and interfi rm relations, business processes, strategies, fi nances, consumers, markets and their interdependent connections.

Since its founding in 1999, the objective of ERIM is to carry out fi rst-rate research in management and to off er an advanced doctoral programme in Business and Management. Within ERIM, over 300 senior researchers and PhD candidates are active in fi ve research programmes, spanning all areas of management research. From a variety of academic backgrounds and expertise, the ERIM Community is united in striving for excellence and working at the forefront of creating new business knowledge.

Contact information For further information about the Erasmus Doctoral Programme in Business and Management, please contact:

ERIM Doctoral Offi ce Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 3062 PA Rotterdam The Netherlands T: +31 10 408 9647 / 408 2382 F: +31 10 408 9640 E: [email protected]

Or visit the website www.erim.eur.nl/doctoral-programme

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