As a senior executive, the Doctorate of Business Administration at IE University Doctoral School gives you the tools to turn professional expertise into rigorous, impactful research without stepping away from the career you've built. This is not a step back from leadership; it's the next stage of it. You will develop rigorous research skills to investigate the challenges you face and produce evidence that drives decisions.

Work alongside faculty who don't just publish in the world's top journals; they are editorial members of those. Choose from eight research areas: Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Information Systems, Marketing, Operations, Organizational Behavior and Human Resources and Strategy and shape a doctoral project grounded in the challenges you've faced firsthand. You'll join a global cohort of peers: senior executives, entrepreneurs and policy makers from different countries, brought together by the same conviction that experience, tested rigorously, becomes knowledge.

Choose your research area, work alongside faculty who shape their fields and produce knowledge that matters — to your organization, your industry and the wider field of management.