PhD in administration - Marketing

Are you planning on an academic career in the field of marketing? Are you interested in brand management, market analysis, electronic commerce, the customer experience, arts marketing or marketing strategies?

Do your PhD studies at a world-class school, as part of a community of renowned professors and researchers.

Your PhD in short

• Program offered in French, English or both.
• Offered by HEC Montréal jointly with Concordia and McGill universities and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). This partnership gives you access to resources (faculty and courses) rarely available elsewhere in the world.
• Full-time program allowing you to complete your studies in four or five years.
• Tuition fees waived and competitive funding for the first four years of your studies.

For a career in academia

Among the best

The professors and researchers in the Marketing Department publish in top-tier journals, including:

• Journal of Consumer Research
• Journal of Marketing
• Journal of Marketing Research

Varied research interests

World-class research groups

HEC Montréal offers doctoral students in the Marketing specialization an exceptional scientific milieu including four research chairs and two research professorships. Researchers in this specialization work closely with several research groups and knowledge transfer hubs.

Chairs

• Carmelle and Rémi Marcoux Chair in Arts Management, directed by Professor François Colbert
• Chair in Energy Sector Management, directed by Professor Pierre-Olivier Pineau
• Chair in Service Marketing and Customer Experience, directed by Professor Yany Grégoire
• RBC Financial Group Chair of E-commerce, directed by Professor Sylvain Sénécal

Research professorships

• Research Professorship in Big Data for Arts and Culture: Professor Renaud Legoux
• Research Professorship in Computer-Mediated Consumption and Big Data: Professor Marcelo Vinhal Nepomuceno
  

Research groups and knowledge transfer hubs

• Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO)
• Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD)
• IDEOS – Social enterprises management hub
• Pôle médias – HEC Montréal (Media hub)
• Sales Institute – HEC Montréal 
• Tech3lab