商业经济学博士学位是由经济学系和哈佛商学院（HBS）的系提供的跨学院课程。该学位是由哈佛大学文理研究生院（GSAS）授予的。专业化的可能领域包括公司财务，组织和市场，国际业务，业务战略和产业组织，公司治理以及业务和政府。商业经济学课程为学生提供了经济学博士学位的全面培训，并有机会专注于与商业领域相关的研究问题。为了让学生以学科理论和方法为基础，学生应与经济学的博士生参加相同的第一年课程。在第二年，学生将继续与经济学博士生一起学习课程，为他们的实地考试做准备，这是由经济学系和商业经济学计划共同管理的。在该课
The PhD in Business Economics is an interfaculty program offered by the Department of Economics and the faculty at Harvard Business School (HBS). The degree is awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at Harvard University. Possible fields of specialization include corporate finance, organizations and markets, international business, business strategy and industrial organization, corporate governance, and business and government. The business economics program provides students with the full training of a PhD in economics along with the opportunity to focus on research questions related to the field of business. In order to ground students in disciplinary theories and methods, students take the same first year coursework as PhD students in economics. In the second year, students continue to take coursework with economics PhD students in preparation for their field examinations, which are jointly administered by the Department of Economics and the Business Economics program. In the dissertation phase of the program, students are required to work with faculty members both in the Department of Economics and at HBS. The program prepares students for careers in academia at such departments as economics, finance, public policy, as well as at business schools.