The world of business and management is undergoing rapid and profound changes. Theories, practices and strategies which seemingly worked yesterday are failing today. Institutional leaders, policy makers and managers everywhere are increasingly confronted by novel situations without historical precedent, precipitating the need for new knowledge.
At the same time the currency of management knowledge seems to be shortening, precipitating the need for knowledge to be more quickly translated into practice. Such circumstances call not only for heightened research activity, but pose questions for the nature of the inquiry itself. This has brought challenges for management education. SBS Swiss Business School has responded with the development of the innovative post-MBA professional doctorate, the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA).
The program follows the internationally established DBA pattern where managers extend their knowledge through advanced management studies and the application of these studies to their work place situation. This includes the exploration of contemporary literature, theory and reports of best practice. Students are then able to integrate the acquired knowledge in applied forms through specific research projects.
The DBA is an integrated work and research program for management practitioners and professionals, who are oriented towards making a significant contribution to practice and policy. DBA students will have a diverse range of interests. Consequently there will be scope for requisite specialization within a general organizational and management framework. Graduates from the program are expected to make a key contribution to practice, so program work will relate to leadership, change and process management as well as research methodologies.
The DBA comprises a total of 108 units and can be completed in a minimum of 2.5 years part-time / next to the job study. The Program is taught in a classroom format based on the use of intensive workshops. It includes the following two components:
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