管理学博士课程建立在该系教职员工的基础上，并为学生提供由世界领先的管理学府之一提供的管理学基础广泛的教育。传统上，它为学生提供了机会来专门研究管理内的三个子专业之一：组织行为，组织理论和策略。该计划旨在帮助其学生获得必要的背景知识，从而成为管理领域的独立研究人员和学者。该计划鼓励学生根据需要采取跨学科的研究方法。
Stern’s Ph.D. program in management prepares students to understand how organizations need to compete in challenging and volatile business environments and how managers must manage in complex and changing workplaces.The training is broad based and interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of economics, psychology, and sociology.Areas of focus within the management doctoral program at Stern include strategy, the study of the competitive dynamics of firm performance; organizational behavior, the study of the behavior of individual employees and managers within organizations; and organization theory, the study of organizational structures and processes.