Further your personal and professional development

Distinguish yourself with a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) - a practical, part-time doctoral program for senior business professionals and educators. Emphasizing applied research, motivated by ongoing careers, a DBA is culminated with a publicly-defended thesis. A DBA holder can gain access to senior executive management and high-level business consultancy, and acquire the necessary academic qualifications that are needed in order to teach at a business school.

 A practical degree

Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) offers a unique, part-time DBA program in both English and French that allows participants to combine their career with doctoral research. All workshops are conveniently held in Lebanon as well as in Grenoble, France. The program focuses on the management of organizational change, as well as on new and existing technologies for business innovation. Participants will gain knowledge to develop their research and analytical skills and, drawing from their own experiences, to produce a cutting-edge thesis on current business and management issues, often based on their own company’s current and anticipated needs.

A prestigious DBA

The DBA degree is awarded by Grenoble Ecole de Management, ranked 20   amongst Europe’s top business schools by the Financial Times in December 2010, and one of the few worldwide institutions to have achieved the “Triple Crown” of business school accreditations: AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA.

The mission of GEM is to advance corporate performance by providing skills and knowledge through excellence in pedagogical innovation and applied research.

Through continuous improvement of the intellectual contributions of its academic and professional programs, GEM seeks to promote responsible business practices through expertise in management of technology and innovation.

Through international development, GEM aims to provide its students with a multicultural educational experience, offer its faculty opportunities for professional exchange and fulfil its corporate partners’ recruitment needs, locally and internationally.

The program is co-administered by the Faculty of Business Administration of the Lebanese Canadian University (LCU), which is accredited by the Lebanese Ministry of Higher Education.

These two international business schools bring together expert faculties with an international reputation in research on business innovation, technology management, and organizational dimensions of technological change.

STAGE 1: Training in Doctoral Research in Management Sciences (18-24 months)

Participants are assigned a supervisor and must complete seven compulsory research training workshops that are held at the Lebanese Canadian University and Grenoble Ecole de Management. Representing more than 160 hours of face-to-face lectures in total, the workshops cover research design, data collection methods, and data analysis techniques for conducting, writing up, and publishing research work of doctoral standards. They also cover up-to-date presentations of critical issues and challenges for research in management disciplines, such as technology and innovation management, marketing, finance, HRM, organizational behaviour, etc.                                                                                    

Under the direction of their supervisor, participants will prepare a detailed research proposal that entails a literature review and a conceptual framework of their theses, and then conduct a pilot study before embar-king on the main research for the DBA thesis.

STAGE 2: Writing, submitting and defending DBA thesis (24-36 months minimum)

Participants, who successfully complete Phase 1 will receive a Certificate of Research in Management Sciences (CRMS) and are then promoted to candidacy status in order to continue their research until producing a final thesis. Short workshops, conferences, and doctoral symposia will be organized at which participants may present their final work and receive support from faculty and fellow DBA candidates.

The average total duration of the program is 4 years. However, there exists the possibility for an extension or for an early submission in exceptional cases.

Language Requirements

The DBA workshops are conducted in English, whereas the final thesis could be written in either English or French.

The tuition fees are 15.000US$ per year for the first three years and 7.000 US$ for the fourth and fifth years.

A scholarship, of 6.000$ for each of the first 3 years and 3.000 US$ for the fourth and fifth years, is automatically granted by the Lebanese Canadian University to Lebanese citizens. Thus, the tuition fees for Lebanese citizens is 9000 US$ per year for each of the first three years and 4000 USD$ for the fourth and fifth years.