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CBS PhD courses are offered by the departments of CBS and administered by the CBS PhD School. All PhD students, internal as well as external, national as well as international, who fullfill the prerequisites in the course description are welcome to register.
If the course shows DEADLINE PASSED, please feel free to contact the organizer of the course for possible availability, as there might still be room for YOU!

Advances in Marketing Strategy Research - 2.5 ECTS - HYBRID

Wednesday 10 May 2023 at 09:00 to Thursday 11 May 2023 at 17:00 - Solbjerg Plads - room SP D2.45 (second floor)

The course aims to: provide knowledge on emerging trends in marketing strategy, yield insights into how to successfully publish in marketing strategy research, and teach about emerging methodological approaches in marketing strategy research.

DKK 3,250

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

Tuesday 9 May 2023 at 10:30 to Thursday 11 May 2023 at 16:30 - Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)

The aim of the course is twofold. First it aims at combining 1) theoretical and methodological reflections on semi-structured interviews with 2) practical exercises in interviewing techniques. (MSC/MOST)

DKK 3,900

Emerging Markets and Global Strategy - 5 ECTS

Monday 24 April 2023 at 09:30 to Friday 28 April 2023 at 16:00 - Dalgas Have - room DHØ 0.80 (ground floor)

The course augments participants’ understanding of characteristics of emerging markets and their implications for global strategies and equip them better to address them in their research. (EGB/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Theoretical Foundations of Digital Strategy - 3 ECTS

Wednesday 26 April 2023 at 09:00 to Friday 28 April 2023 at 16:00 - Kilen - room KL1.46 (first floor)

This doctoral course explores the role that digital materiality and related technologies play in strategy and organizational change research. (DIGI/MOST)

DKK 3,900

Cancelled

Philosophy of Science and Epistemological Methods in Business, Management and Organization Studies - 5 ECTS

Monday 17 April 2023 at 09:00 to Friday 21 April 2023 at 16:00 - Kilen - room KL1.43 (first floor)

This course develops the ability of researchers to place and and justify their research in a broad historical context. For students who want to strengthen their methodological foundation and research design. (BHL/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Advances in Digital Technology Management Seminar 2023 - 2 ECTS

Friday 3 March 2023 at 14:00 to Friday 14 April 2023 at 17:00 - Kilen - room KL 2.53 (second floor)

This introductory course highlights a selection of contemporary central topics in information systems and digital technology management research. (DIGI/MOST)

DKK 2,600

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

Monday 27 March 2023 at 09:00 to Friday 31 March 2023 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 PhDstudents to the core approaches constituting social science research. This course is most suitable for students in the first half of their PhD studies. (MSC/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Big Data Asset Pricing - 5 ECTS

Thursday 16 February 2023 at 09:00 to Thursday 30 March 2023 at 10:00 - Solbjerg Plads - room SP D4 Augustinus Fonden (fourth floor - above canteen)

The aim of the course is to introduce PhD students in finance and related fields to empirical asset pricing research methods using big data. (FI)

From DKK 0

Empirical Finance: Fixed income - 2.5 ECTS

Wednesday 8 March 2023 at 09:00 to Wednesday 22 March 2023 at 15:00 - Solbjerg Plads - room SP D4 Augustinus Fonden (fourth floor - above canteen)

This course is a course on fixed income at the 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

Foundations of Entrepreneurship - 5 ECTS

Monday 13 February 2023 at 09:00 to Monday 20 March 2023 at 16:00 - Online

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

Research Methodology in Organization and Management Analyses - 5 ECTS

Monday 6 March 2023 at 12:30 to Friday 10 March 2023 at 13:30 - Kilen - room KL4.74 (fourth floor)

The course focuses on the entire PhD process from the formulation of research question(s) to the use of theory, the generation and analysis of data, and the composition of the thesis. (IOA/MOST)

DKK 6,500

Advanced Econometrics and Data Science - 7.5 ECTS

Tuesday 24 January 2023 at 09:00 to Thursday 9 March 2023 at 16:00 - 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

Social and Organizational Theories of Transformation - 4 ECTS

Tuesday 21 February 2023 at 12:30 to Saturday 25 February 2023 at 13:30 - Porcelænshaven - room PH18B 1.18 (first floor)

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 it. (BHL/MOST)

DKK 5,200

Analysis of Qualitative Data - 4 ECTS

Monday 16 January 2023 at 10:00 to Thursday 19 January 2023 at 16:00 - Kilen - room KL4.74 (fourth floor)

This course will involve analytical approaches that have an explicit conceptual basis and an analytical approach that builds the conceptual framework along the way.

DKK 5,200

Getting my Research into Journals - 1.5 ECTS

Monday 9 January 2023 at 09:00 to Tuesday 10 January 2023 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.

DKK 1,950

Applied Econometrics for Researchers - 6 ECTS

Tuesday 27 September 2022 at 09:00 to Tuesday 13 December 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course requires that students have basic knowledge of statistics. It is assumed that students know how to calculate and interpret e.g. mean values, standard deviations and correlations, and how to perform basic statistical tests.

DKK 7,800

Advanced Microeconomics - 7 ECTS

Tuesday 4 October 2022 at 09:00 to Tuesday 13 December 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

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.

DKK 9,100

Hands-on Qualitative Methods - 5 ECTS

Monday 5 December 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 9 December 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

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.

DKK 6,500

Perspectives in Organizational Analysis - 5 ECTS

Monday 28 November 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 2 December 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Our ambition is to enable PhD students to mobilize different analytical perspectives in or-ganizational theory and inspire them to ‘see’ something different and new in their own em-pirical work.

DKK 6,500

Perspectives on Governing Sustainable Development - 5 ECTS

Monday 21 November 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 25 November 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

This PhD course provides research students with an in-depth engagement with relevant frameworks, concepts and approaches to the topic of governing sustainable development, with specific focus on the role of business.

DKK 6,500

Strategic decision-making, the theory-based view, and experimentation: State-of-the-art and future direction

Monday 14 November 2022 at 14:00 to Friday 18 November 2022 at 19:45 - Online

The aim of this course is to offer recent, advanced insights related to the theoretical and empirical content of strategic decision-making, the theory-based view (TBV), and experimentation.

DKK 3,900

The Politics and Practicalities of Publishing in Organization and Management Studies (Publishing in Academic Journals) - 3.5 ECTS

Wednesday 9 November 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 11 November 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Writing and publishing is integral to academic life. This course introduces PhD students to the process of writing an academic article, by supporting their own writing process.

DKK 4,450

Advanced Macroeconomics - 7.5 ECTS

Friday 7 October 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 11 November 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of the course is to develop some of the most important tools of dynamic economics useful in macroeconomics and to provide a number of workhorse models useful in multiple areas of macroeconomics, namely economic growth, fiscal etc.

DKK 9,750

Perspectives on Communication and Organization - 5 ECTS

Tuesday 11 October 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 14 October 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

FacultyProfessor Lars Thøger Christensen, CBS. Professor Joep Cornelissen, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Professor Dennis Schoeneborn, CBS. Course CoordinatorProfessor Lars Thøger Christensen & Professor Dennis Schoeneborn.

DKK 6,500

Advanced Asset Pricing – Fall 2022 - 7.5 ECTS

Tuesday 6 September 2022 at 09:00 to Tuesday 11 October 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

To provide participants with a firm and rigorous knowledge and understanding of asset pricing models of finance. The course covers fundamental concepts, relations, and models but it also outlines some recent trends in the development of asset pricing

DKK 9,750

Framing the PhD project – how to connect parts to a whole in a paper-based dissertation? - 2 ECTS

Tuesday 4 October 2022 at 09:00 to Wednesday 5 October 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course adopts a pragmatic approach to composing a coherent paper-based dissertation in a given research domain. It centers on the question: how can a dissertation be written to interest readers and withstand “assaults from a hostile environment”

DKK 2,600

Qualitative Research Methods – Fall 2022 - 5 ECTS

Tuesday 20 September 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 23 September 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

FacultyProfessor Torsten Ringberg, Department of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School. Professor Dr. Markus Reihlen, Institute of Management and Organization, Leuphana University of Lüneburg..

DKK 6,500

Management and Economics of Innovation - 5 ECTS

Monday 12 September 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 22 September 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course aims to provide a set of advanced insights into the field of Management and Economics of Innovation spanning from foundational themes to the most recent developments of the field.

DKK 6,500

Institutional Organizational Analysis - Change and Transformation - 5 ECTS

Monday 5 September 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 9 September 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Participants get insights into the historical development of organizational institutionalism and into the most recent approaches to organizational stability, change and transformation.

DKK 6,500

Introduction to Experiments in Economics and Management - 2 ECTS

Monday 5 September 2022 at 09:00 to Tuesday 6 September 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of this course is to offer insights related to the use of experiments in research projects in the area of economics and management. The specific focus of the course is to develop an understanding of how to design an experiment to answer...

DKK 2,600

Foucault: organization, technology, and subject-formation - 4 ECTS

Monday 27 June 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 30 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Achieve a strong reflexivity regarding how the choice of analytics from Foucault’s authorship brings certain questions, problems, entities and processes into the foreground of analysis and critical consideration.

DKK 5,200

Advanced Topics in Leadership Research (runs every 2 years) - 5 ECTS

Monday 20 June 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 23 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Engage with the field of leadership studies, acknowledging the variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, and formulate a valid research contribution to it. Critically discuss current issues in the field of leadership studies.

DKK 6,500

Advances in Marketing Strategy Research - HYBRID - 2,5 ECTS

Wednesday 8 June 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 9 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course aims to: provide knowledge on emerging trends in marketing strategy, yield insights into how to successfully publish in marketing strategy research, and teach about emerging methodological approaches in marketing strategy research.

DKK 3,250

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS SEMINAR (SPRING 2022) (cancelled)

Monday 23 May 2022 at 09:00 to Monday 6 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The Qualitative Research Methods course is designed for doctoral students who are interested in pursuing qualitative research projects in the social sciences.

DKK 7,800

Advanced Econometrics - 7,5 ECTS

Tuesday 26 April 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 2 June 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

After the course, students shall be able to: • demonstrate knowledge of the concepts, models, methods and tools of econometrics as discussed during the course (when to apply what and why) , • read and understand international research papers.

DKK 9,750

Applied Quantitative Methods for Non-quantitative Doctoral Researchers in Organization and Management Studies - 3+2 (Incl add-on: + 1 ECTS)

Monday 16 May 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 20 May 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course provides students with some fundamental theoretical and hands-on knowledge about quantitative methods in Stata. It does so in a pedagogic context that recognizes the complementarity between qualitative and quantitative methods.

DKK 3,900

Advances in Strategic Management - 4 ECTS

Monday 16 May 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 19 May 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of this course is to offer advanced insights related to the theoretical and empirical recent developments in the area of Strategic Management, with a specific focus on economic and organizational theories of Strategy and International Busines

DKK 5,200

Theorizing Materiality – Spring 2022 - ONLINE - 4 ECTS

Monday 25 April 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 12 May 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

This seminar course explores the motivations behind the increasing interest in understanding the role that the materiality of bodies, spaces and things especially technologies play in social research and how materiality can be theorized more explicit

DKK 5,200

Research Methodology in Organization and Management Analyses - 5 ECTS

Monday 2 May 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 6 May 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course focuses on the entire PhD process from the formulation of research question(s) to the use of theory, the generation and analysis of data, and the composition of the thesis.

DKK 6,500

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

Monday 25 April 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 29 April 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The interlinkage between theory and research design is in focus when this course introduces PhD students to the core approaches constituting social science research approaches. We will focus in particular on conceptual analysis and case-selection.

DKK 6,500

Quantitative Measurement and Analysis (Spring 2022) - ONLINE - 6 ECTS

Wednesday 23 March 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 21 April 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The Quantitative Measurement and Analysis course is designed for doctoral students who are interested in pursuing quantitative research projects in social sciences.

DKK 7,800

Case-Study Approaches to Theory Building - April 2022 - 5 ECTS

Monday 4 April 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 8 April 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The course aims to equip students with the ability to read, write and evaluate papers applying qualitative methodologies, and to understand how qualitative research and case-study research in particular can contribute to theory building.

DKK 6,500

Empirical Asset Pricing - 5 ECTS

Wednesday 2 March 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 31 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of the class is to introduce Ph.D. students in finance and related fields to empirical asset pricing research methods.

DKK 6,500

Hands-on Qualitative Methods - Spring 2022 - (runs annually) - 5 ECTS

Monday 21 March 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 25 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

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.

DKK 6,500

Advances in IT Management Seminar 2022 - 2 ECTS

Friday 18 February 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 25 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

This introductory course highlights a selection of contemporary central topics in information systems research. It is designed to familiarize doctorate students with the main research streams and contributing scholars of IS research.

DKK 2,600

Foundations of Entrepreneurship - 5 ECTS

Monday 14 February 2022 at 09:00 to Monday 21 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The main 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.

DKK 6,500

SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES OF TRANSFORMATION - 4 ECTS

Monday 14 March 2022 at 09:00 to Friday 18 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

We live in a world defined by crises and transformation. Environmental degradation, climate crisis, financial crisis, populism, Covid-19, falling legitimacy of political and economic elites and institutions, just to mention a few.

DKK 5,200

Publishing Journal Articles in Business, Management and Organization Studies - 4 ECTS

Monday 7 March 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 10 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of this course is to take participants through the process of journal publication. There are two aspects to this. First, considering the nature of academic knowledge production (using (and being used by) concepts, categories, methods etc..)

DKK 5,200

Getting my research into journals - 1,5 ECTS

Wednesday 2 March 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 3 March 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

Continuous publishing in academic journals has increasingly become not only a criterion for initial employment, subsequent tenure, and possible promotion, but also a necessity for most academics employed by universities and business schools. 

DKK 1,950

Empirical Finance: Identification Strategies in Corporate Finance - 2,5 ECTS

Wednesday 23 February 2022 at 09:00 to Thursday 24 February 2022 at 16:00 - Room TBA

The aim of the class to introduce Ph.D. students in finance and related fields to identification strategies in corporate finance.

DKK 3,250

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