Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences

• Accounting
  
  The Accounting specialization is designed to help accountants and auditors broaden their knowledge and business skills in various areas, including auditing, budget analysis, financial and international accounting, management accounting, accounting information system consulting, fraud examination, forensic accounting, and tax consulting and preparation services.
  
  
• Engineering Management
  
  This specialization allows either practicing engineers who plan a move into management or engineers who are already managers to learn the social and behavioral aspects of management.
  
  
• Finance
  
  This specialization helps you build an understanding of financial theory, systems, and practices on a foundation of management and decision sciences.
  
  
• Information Systems Management
  
  The Information Systems Management specialization provides an integrative approach to all aspects of organizations—people, technology, and management—in today’s information-rich environment. This specialization focuses on executive leadership skills similar to those of a CEO, CTO, or COO in depth, breadth, and application.
  
  
• Knowledge Management
  
  Knowledge management is a new field. This specialization will help you gain a competitive advantage by understanding how to identify, acquire, store, analyze, distribute, and use explicit and tacit knowledge to enhance organizational productivity and competitiveness.
  
  
• Leadership and Organizational Change
  
  This specialization prepares you to promote effective leadership development, interpersonal relationships, and group and organizational dynamics, which in turn, lead to higher performance levels within an organization.
  
  
• Learning Management
  
  This specialization prepares you to develop innovative solutions to the most critical organizational challenges through the human side of creating, sharing, and using knowledge. Learning Management is focused on developing learning organizations and the education of participants including the deployment of corporate universities.
  
  
• Operations Research
  
  This specialization (often referred to as management science or by the acronym OR/MS) prepares you to understand new and innovative approaches to operations management.
  
  
• Self-Designed
  
  If you have highly focused learning and professional interests, you may undertake a Self-Designed specialization within the existing KAM curriculum structure of the General Program. This allows maximum flexibility in designing a program that will most closely match your professional goals, while adhering to the quality and rigor of Walden’s General Program.