What they say about the Program
Karel Cool
The BP Chaired Professor of European Competitiveness
Professor of Strategic Management, INSEAD
“Studying at Krannert was a life changing experience for me. I had the exceptional fortune to study under the guidance of Professors Dan Schendel, Arnie Cooper and Carolyn Woo, who not only were conducting leading edge strategy research but were also inspiring mentors. The entire PhD curriculum was outstanding and I very much benefited from the rigor of the program, a quality I have tried to achieve in my research and teaching. The Krannert strategy PhD program has an exceptional record and today has outstanding faculty who can inspire new PhD students to conduct interesting, rigorous strategy research.”

Arkadiy Sakhartov
Assistant Professor
Gies College of Business
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“The Krannert PhD program in Strategic Management has been a very important milestone in my development as a researcher. I was greatly benefited by the intellectual support and guidance of my instructors at the Krannert School of Management. The chair of my dissertation committee invested particularly much time and effort in working with me on my thesis and other projects. Other committee members also provided a lot of valuable support and suggestions for how to turn my research interests into an interesting research program. The help of fellow students at the program was a source of inspiration and persistence to me. The Krannert School provided all the technical resources I needed to conduct my research. Among other resources available to me at Krannert, the support from the Krannert Computing Center was fundamental to the computational models involved in my research.”

Cheng-Wei Wu
Associate Professor
International Business, National Taiwan University
“Founded as the world’s first PhD program in strategy, every PhD student at Purdue has the chance to immerse themselves to the foundations of strategy research, and the close collaboration between students and faculty members not only equips students with the capability of tackling their research questions from scratch, but also helps guide students through the course of being an independent scholar. The collegial atmosphere from peers also makes learning and studying here at Purdue especially pleasant. I benefited a lot from the program, and I’m also proud of being part of the tradition.”
Examples of placements
Krannert alumni are currently working in such prestigious institutions as Harvard University, INSEAD, Ohio State University, Arizona State University, Vanderbilt University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Colorado Boulder. In particular, over the last ten years, our PhD graduates have been placed in top schools in North America, Europe, and Asia including: University of Pennsylvania, University of Hawaiʻi, University at Buffalo, Louisiana State University, Tilburg University, University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, and McMaster University. Our graduates also received various awards such as AOM distinguished paper award, AOM distinguished student paper award, SMS best conference PhD paper prize, and SMS emerging scholar award.
Name | Initial Placement | Current Affiliation |
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Cynthia Montgomery | Harvard University | Harvard University |
Karel Cool | INSEAD | INSEAD |
Javier Gimeno | Texas A&M University | INSEAD |
Timothy Folta | University of Kentucky | University of Connecticut |
Michael Leiblein | University of South Carolina | Ohio State University |
Jeffrey Reuer | INSEAD | University of Colorado at Boulder |
Catherine Maritan | Purdue University | Syracuse University |
Luiz Mesquita | Instituto de Altos Estudios Empresariales Mariano | Arizona State University |
Wei-Ru Chen | INSEAD | CEIBS |
Jonathan O’Brien | University of Notre Dame | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Paul Drnevich | University of Alabama | University of Alabama |
Brian McCann | Vanderbilt University | Vanderbilt University |
Cheng-Wei Wu | University of Hong Kong | National Taiwan University |
Arkadiy Sakhartov | University of Pennsylvania | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Supradeep Dutta | University at Buffalo | University at Buffalo |
Shivaram Devarakonda | Tilburg University | Tilburg University |
Ramakrishna Devarakonda | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Tilburg University |
Wonsang Ryu | City University of Hong Kong | KAIST |
Goran Calic | McMaster University | McMaster University |
Kubilay Cirik | Louisiana State University | Louisiana State University |
Dalee Yoon | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Mingtao Xu | Louisiana State University | Louisiana State University |
Recent examples of dissertation topics
Name | Graduation year | Dissertation title |
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Dalee Yoon | 2020 | Essays on Entrepreneurs and Their Behaviors in Their Entrepreneurial Activities |
Mingtao Xu | 2020 | Essays on Patent Litigation, Patent Monetization, and Entrepreneurial Firms |
Kubilay Cirik | 2018 | Three Essays on Entry Timing |
Joonhyung Bae | 2018 | Essays on Interorganizational Relationships between Entrepreneurial Ventures and Industry Incumbents |
Jongsoo Kim | 2018 | Three Essays on Strategic Human Capital, Managers and Competitive Advantage |
Shiau-Ling Guo | 2017 | Contract Design in Inter-Organizational Relationships: Evidence from the U.S. Franchise Systems |
Goran Calic | 2016 | Creativity in organizations: Antecedents and outcomes of individual creativity |
Wonsang Ryu | 2016 | Three essays on market overlap and strategic alliances |
Ramakrishna Devarakonda | 2015 | Founders' credentials and performance of startups |
Mona Bahl | 2013 | Direct and complementary effects of knowledge and governance mechanisms on firm outcomes: A transition economy context |
Shivaram Devarakonda | 2013 | Administrative mechanisms in alliance government |
Supradeep Dutta | 2013 | Role of private equity investment in technology start-ups |
Zhonghui Wang | 2013 | The impact of controlling shareholders on firms' choices of governance provisions |
Ramesh Dangol | 2012 | Delineating the relationship between operational and dynamic capabilities |
Arkadiy Sakhartov | 2012 | Investigations into redeployability of corporate resources |
Cheng-Wei Wu | 2012 | Information costs and search in M&A markets |