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Advanced Microeconomics - 7 ECTS

Tuesday 17 September 2024 at 09:30 to Thursday 5 December 2024 at 15:30 - Porcelænshaven - room PH16A 2.80 (second floor)

The aim of the course is to get the students acquainted with the most important models and methods used in advanced microeconomic theory in order to enable them to apply these models and methods later in their own research. (ECON)

DKK 9,100

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Applied Econometrics for Researchers - 6 ECTS

Tuesday 1 October 2024 at 09:00 to Wednesday 11 December 2024 at 12:00 - Kilen - room KL 2.53 (second floor)

The aim of the course is to provide econometric tools for data analysis to PhD students with limited prior econometric experience. Students will be able to identify the appropriate econometric technique given their research question. (SI)

DKK 7,800

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Advanced Corporate Finance - 7.5 ECTS

Monday 21 October 2024 at 13:00 to Tuesday 17 December 2024 at 16:15 - Room TBA

Faculty: David Lando, Professor, Department of Finance, CBS. Kristian R. Miltersen, Professor, Department of Finance, CBS. Carsten Sørensen, Professor, Department of Finance, CBS. Prerequisites. (FI)

DKK 9,750

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PhD Introduction Course 4-6 November 2024 + 24 January 2025 (mandatory)

Monday 4 November 2024 at 09:00 to Friday 24 January 2025 at 12:00 - Dalgas Have - room DH - Ø.0.46 (ground floor)

CBS PhD School has introduced a mandatory 3 day introductory course for all new PhD students enrolled at CBS from 1 January 2024, onwards. The course is set to take place on 4-6 November 2024. Please make sure to mark these dates in your calendar.

Free

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How to Tackle Stress, 6 November 2024 + 24 January 2025

Wednesday 6 November 2024 at 09:00 to Friday 24 January 2025 at 12:00 - Dalgas Have - room DH.Ø.1.23 (first floor)

How to Tackle Stress is a 2-half-day course which provides insights into understanding and managing stress in the context of an academic environment. The course is mandatory for all students enrolen from 1 january 2024.

Free

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Perspectives on Governance and Sustainable Development - 5 ECTS

Monday 18 November 2024 at 08:30 to Friday 22 November 2024 at 15:00 - Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)

It presents frameworks, concepts and approaches to the governance of sustainable development, focusing on business roles. It is led by Sustainability Centre & Centre for Business & Development Studies staff and guest practitioners. (Theory/MSC/MOST)

DKK 6,500

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Research Ethics and Integrity - mandatory course

Monday 25 November 2024 at 08:30 to 13:30 - Dalgas Have - room DH.Ø.1.23 (first floor)

This one-session training and development course will be compulsory for all new PhD registrants at CBS. This course is for CBS students only. To obtain the course certificate, PhD students must be present during the whole course period.

Free

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Perspectives in Organizational Analysis - 5 ECTS

Monday 25 November 2024 at 09:00 to Friday 29 November 2024 at 16:00 - Dalgas Have - room DHØ 1.65 (first floor)

This course introduces and familiarizes PhD students to a set of analytical perspectives, which are well-alive in contemporary organizational analysis. (Theory/IOA/MOST)

DKK 6,500

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Consequential Analysis of Law - 2.5 ECTS

Monday 2 December 2024 at 09:00 to Tuesday 3 December 2024 at 16:00 - Porcelænshaven - room PH18B 1.18 (first floor)

The course aims to focus on the nature of your research questions and on how functional and consequential analysis is relevant to them. The analysis is functional when one is interested in how well the law addresses certain goals. (LAW/BHL)

From DKK 1,000

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Perspectives on Communication and Organization - 5 ECTS

Monday 2 December 2024 at 13:00 to Friday 6 December 2024 at 15:30 - Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)

This PhD course allows students to discuss and experiment with the applicability of a communication-centered perspective for conceptual and/or empirical inquiries into organization and organizing. (Theory/MSC/MOST)

DKK 6,500

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Hands-on Qualitative Methods - 5 ECTS

Monday 9 December 2024 at 10:00 to Friday 13 December 2024 at 15:30 - Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)

This course serves as a basic primer for PhD students on how to conduct solid qualitative research as well as on major considerations that researchers need to reflect upon when aspiring to conduct qualitative research with quality. (Methods/MSC/MOST)

DKK 6,500

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Big Data Asset Pricing - 5 ECTS (partially hybrid)

Thursday 9 January 2025 at 09:00 to Thursday 20 February 2025 at 10:00 - Solbjerg Plads - room SP D4 Augustinus Fonden, (fourth floor - above canteen)

The course provides students with empirical asset pricing tools to use big data to analyze modern topics in financial economics and introduces PhD students in finance and related fields to empirical asset pricing research methods using big data (FI)

From DKK 0

Getting my Research into Journals - 1.5 ECTS

Monday 13 January 2025 at 09:00 to Tuesday 14 January 2025 at 16:00 - Kilen - room KL 2.53 (second floor)

This workshop is intended to deal with the basic issues of the process of publishing in the learned journals for the PhD students who are about to write their thesis. (SI)

DKK 1,950

Advanced Econometrics and Data Science - 7.5 ECTS - HYBRID

Monday 20 January 2025 at 09:00 to Thursday 6 March 2025 at 14:00 - Porcelænshaven - room PH18B 1.18 (first floor)

This course is designed for PhD students in Economics and related disciplines who want to deepen their understanding of econometrics & data science and widen their statistical methods repertoire for their thesis and later career. (ECON)

DKK 9,750

Foundations of Strategy - 5 ECTS - HYBRID

Monday 27 January 2025 at 09:00 to Wednesday 5 February 2025 at 16:00 - Hybrid - online / Kilen, room KL2.53 (second floor)

The aim of this course is to offer an introduction to the theoretical foundation in the field of Strategy and an overview of primary topics in Strategy-related research. Also, quantitative methods typical in Strategy research will be discussed. (SI)

DKK 6,500

Perspectives on Technology and Society - 5 ECTS

Monday 27 January 2025 at 09:00 to Friday 31 January 2025 at 15:00 - Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)

This PhD course examine the novel questions and dynamics occasioned by our current moment and its defining foundational technologies, the particular transformations that we are observing in management, organizations and society. (Theory/MSC/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Social Science Research Approaches: A Toolbox for Empirical Designs - 5 ECTS

Monday 27 January 2025 at 09:00 to Friday 31 January 2025 at 16:00 - Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)

The interlinkage between theory and research design is in focus when introducing students to the core approaches constituting social science research. This course is most suitable for students in the first half of the PhD studies. (Methods/MSC/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Framing the PhD project: How to connect parts to a whole in a paper-based dissertation within organization and management studies? - 2 ECTS

Wednesday 5 March 2025 at 09:00 to Thursday 6 March 2025 at 16:00 - Kilen - room KL4.74 (fourth floor)

The course focuses on establishing robust linkages between papers in a PhD dissertation by composing and writing an effective framework (“kappe”). It is useful in the final half-year but can be taken by students in all phases of the PhD. (IOA/MOST)

DKK 2,600

Foundations of Entrepreneurship - 5 ECTS

Monday 10 March 2025 at 09:00 to Monday 14 April 2025 at 10:00 - Kilen - room KL 2.53 (second floor)

The goal of the course is to increase familiarity with and develop an in-depth understanding of the key themes and empirical research methods of entrepreneurship. (SI)

DKK 6,500

Social and Organizational Theories of Transformation - 4 ECTS

Monday 10 March 2025 at 12:30 to Friday 14 March 2025 at 13:30 - Room TBA

This course enables the students to critically interrogate and analyse the foundations of the economy using the tools of social and organizational theory, as well as insights into alternative ways of imagining them. (Theory/BHL/MOST)

DKK 5,200

Research Methodology in Organization and Management Analyses - 5+1 ECTS

Monday 17 March 2025 at 09:00 to Friday 21 March 2025 at 16:00 - Kilen - room KL4.74 (fourth floor)

The course focuses on creating consistency between the formulation of research question(s), the use of theory, the generation and analysis of data, and the composition of the thesis. (Methods/IOA/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Empirical Finance: Identification Strategies in Corporate Finance - 2.5 ECTS

Wednesday 26 March 2025 at 09:00 to Thursday 27 March 2025 at 16:00 - Solbjerg Plads - room SP D4.20 (fourth floor)

The goal of the course is to provide PhD students with a methodological framework that will enhance their ability to design sound identification strategies in the area of corporate finance. (FI)

From DKK 0

Theorizing and Enacting Societal Impact - 3 ECTS

Wednesday 2 April 2025 at 09:00 to Friday 4 April 2025 at 16:30 - Kilen - room KL4.74 (fourth floor)

The societal impact of our research matters increasingly. This course equips participants with a theoretical understanding of societal impact that can help them position themselves within the changing landscape of academia. (Theory/IOA/MOST)

DKK 3,900

The Role of Stakeholders as a Regulatory Force for Sustainable Natural Resource Usage - 5 ECTS

Monday 7 April 2025 at 09:00 to Friday 11 April 2025 at 18:00 - Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)

Exploration and extraction of resources in the Arctic are on the rise. This course targets how to identify and manage societal impacts, and conditions, frameworks and practices for stakeholder involvement in decision-making. (methods/theory/MSC/MOST)

Free

Computational Research Methods - 3.5 ECTS

Monday 28 April 2025 at 09:00 to Friday 9 May 2025 at 16:00 - Room TBA

For students who are interested in applying computational research methods for social science research. Special focus is given to the collection and analysis of digital trace data and agent-based modeling and simulation. (Methods/DIGI/MOST)

DKK 4,550

International Business: State-of-the Art Theories and Topics - 5 ECTS

Monday 28 April 2025 at 09:00 to Friday 2 May 2025 at 16:30 - Kilen - room KL 2.53 (second floor)

The course is designed for students with different backgrounds who have an interest in business and its applications to other fields and topics. Basic knowledge of management, strategy, and economics is helpful, but not required. (SI)

From DKK 5,025

Case-Study Approaches to Theory Building - 5 ECTS

Monday 28 April 2025 at 09:30 to Friday 2 May 2025 at 16:00 - Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)

This course is designed to offer the best possible learning experience and outcomes for PhD researchers who use a case study approach or other qualitative approaches in their PhD project. (Methods/MSC/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Perspectives on Feminist Theories in Management and Organization Studies - 5 ECTS

Monday 5 May 2025 at 09:00 to Friday 9 May 2025 at 16:30 - Room TBA

This PhD course explores feminist theories on gender, sexuality, intersectionality, and affect, emphasizing their significance for research within management and organization studies (MOS). (Theory/BHL/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Empirical Finance: Fixed Income - 2.5 ECTS

Wednesday 7 May 2025 at 09:00 to Wednesday 21 May 2025 at 15:00 - Solbjerg Plads - room SP D4 Augustinus Fonden, (fourth floor - above canteen)

This course is a course on fixed income at PhD level. The course attempts to lay the groundwork for students who will later do actual empirical research work in fixed income. (FI)

From DKK 0

Using Semi-structured Interviews in International and Cross-cultural Contexts - 3 ECTS

Wednesday 21 May 2025 at 10:30 to Friday 23 May 2025 at 16:30 - Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)

The course combines theoretical and methodological reflections on semi-structured interviews in international or cross-cultural settings (eg: national, or professional cultures), with hands-on exercises in interviewing techniques. (Methods/MSC/MOST)

DKK 3,900

Applied Quantitative Methods for Non-quantitative Doctoral Researchers - 3+2+1 ECTS

Monday 2 June 2025 at 11:00 to Friday 6 June 2025 at 15:00 - Room TBA

In the course, we introduce and train students in the targeted statistical tools within a pedagogic context of a general empirical method that recognizes the complementarity between qualitative and quantitative methods. (Methods/MSC/MOST)

From DKK 3,900

The Use of Concepts: Choosing and Unfolding Concepts in PhD Theses - 5 ECTS

Tuesday 10 June 2025 at 09:30 to Friday 13 June 2025 at 17:00 - Porcelænshaven - room PH18B 1.18 (first floor)

This course addresses issues by exploring general problematics and potentials related to the use of concepts in writing dissertations and use examples from the work of prominent scholars. (Methods/BHL/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Foucault and Organization, Technology, and Subject-formation - 4 ECTS

Monday 16 June 2025 at 09:00 to Thursday 19 June 2025 at 16:00 - Room TBA

A key aim of the course is that the participants acquire an effective overview of analytical possibilities in Foucault’s work, effective for selecting and deploying such analytics in their own research. (Theory/BHL/MOST)

DKK 5,200

About CBS PhD School


Copenhagen Business School (CBS) offers a range of PhD courses, covering the scientific disciplines of the school. The courses include research design, publication techniques, research methods such as qualitative or quantitative methods, and specialisation courses in eg. organisational analysis, marketing and political science.

Most courses are organised as intensive week-long courses, but other formats are applied as well. The courses are open to PhD students from other countries and institutions, but some prerequisites may apply. Please see the individual course descriptions.

The PhD courses are offered in English and are for PhD students only.

Contact Information


CBS PhD School
Solbjerg Plads 3
2000 Frederiksberg

Phone Number: +45 3815 2475
E-mail: phdsupport@cbs.dk
Website: www.cbs.dk