Featured Alumni

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.

Recent examples of dissertation topics