在奥林，我们相信优秀的战略博士候选人对影响商业实践具有根本的推动作用。我们的学生像我们的教师一样，接受了各种本科教育，包括经济学，化学，工程学和数学。我们大力推动跨商业学科的博士生和教职员工以及华盛顿大学其他领域和学校之间的跨学科和合作研究。在我们的计划中，从公司和个人两个层面研究战略–考察组织如何创造和获取价值，这是由不同的战略，组织设计和环境条件引起的。在市场水平上观察企业绩效时，这种绩效的微观基础在于企业内个人和资源的行为，组织。这些因素的组织会影响创新，公司结构和人员生产率方面的绩效。
At Olin, we believe that great strategy PhD candidates have a fundamental drive to impact business practice. Our students, like our faculty, have diverse undergraduate training, including economics, chemistry, engineering, and mathematics. We strongly promote interdisciplinary and collaborative research among doctoral students and faculty across business disciplines and with other areas and schools at Washington University. In our program, strategy is studied at both the firm and individual levels - examining how organizations create and capture value, which arises from differing strategies, organizational designs, and environmental conditions. While firm performance is observed at the market level, the microfoundations of this performance lie in the behavior and organization of individuals and resources within the firm. The organization of these factors influences performance in innovation, firm structure, and human productivity.