All students are required to take the Ph.D. Student Research Workshop (MGMT 780) and each individual program's seminar and workshop series in every term throughout their years in residence. These are not counted as part of the required number of courses specified below for each of the individual programs. All of the programs are full-time, requiring that all students be in residence at Yale during the academic year as well as the summer months. Teaching is considered to be an important part of the doctoral program in Management. Students are expected to serve as teaching fellows in one term of their residence.

Current fields include accounting, financial economics, marketing (behavioral), marketing (quantitative), operations, and organizations and management. The specialization in Accounting prepares students to become accounting scholars engaged in research and teaching at the highest levels in the general areas of financial information and contracting within and across organizations. The specialization in Financial Economics prepares students to launch a career in academic finance. Students should seek out faculty with whom they may wish to work early in the process to ensure a smooth transition from one stage of the program to the next.

Students are required to take fourteen Ph.D.-level courses in their first two years of study: one microeconomics course (ECON 545); two empirical methods courses (e.g., PSYC 518, S&DS 563); five depth courses (MGMT 750, MGMT 753, MGMT 754, MGMT 758; PSYC 543 or PSYC 601, or INP 597); and six electives (from MGMT 703; PSYC 509, PSYC 607, PSYC 610, PSYC 621, PSYC 749; S&DS 530). Operations - Students are required to take at least twelve courses: two core courses (ECON 500 and ENAS 649), typically completed in the first year of study; five methods courses (ECON 501; ENAS 530; S&DS 541, S&DS 542, S&DS 551); two operations modeling courses (MGMT 720, MGMT 721), completed in the second year of study; and at least three elective courses scheduled in consultation with the student's course adviser.