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Harvard Business School (HBS) is home to a vibrant and dynamic community of aspiring doctoral students. While working with faculty will sharpen the skills needed for PhD studies, doing so alongside a group of similarly motivated early career professionals makes it even more rewarding. It's a collaborative environment that encourages intellectual growth, career development, and lifelong connections.

The HBS Predoctoral RA Program is a cohort experience. New RAs have the chance to benefit from the tips and guidance of their second-year peers, while seasoned predocs can act as mentors to incoming RAs. The cohort model creates meaningful connections and a shared learning environment similar to those RAs may find in future doctoral studies. This experience, along with co-located workspaces and tailored programming, builds camaraderie and community.

Programs Entered

The goal of the program is to provide recent graduates with exposure to research, faculty, and the experience of being a doctoral student. Over the past 5 years, predoctoral researchers have moved on to doctoral programs in a variety of schools and fields, including:

  • Anderson School of Management (UCLA)

    Organizational Behavior

  • Columbia Business School

    Management
    Marketing

  • Cornell University

    Statistics

  • Fuqua School of Business (Duke University)

    Finance

  • Harvard Business School

    Accounting & Management
    Organizational Behavior
    Strategy
    Technology Operations Management

  • Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University)

    Organizational Behavior

  • London School of Business

    Organizational Behavior

  • Princeton University

    Economics

  • Stanford University

    Organizational Behavior

  • Stern School of Business (NYU)

    Accounting
    Management & Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

    Development Economics

  • University of Chicago

    Economics
    Statistics

  • University of Maryland

    Finance
    Marketing

  • University of Toronto

    Organizational Behavior

  • The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania)

    Organizational Behavior

  • Yale School of Management (Yale University)

    Finance
    Organizations & Management

Current Predoctoral Research Associates

Research Associates come from many backgrounds and are exposed to a variety of methodologies in multiple subject areas.

  • Omar Abdel Haq

  • Shira Aronson

  • James Blume

  • Kristian Blais

  • Francis Dillon

  • Bo Feng

  • Samay Gupta

  • Eleanor Jenke

  • Chris Johnson

  • Anoushka Kiyawat

  • Aaron Leung

  • Chris Liao

  • Ling Lin

  • Kris Peng

  • ZhiZhong "ZZ" Pu

  • Cheyang Ma

  • Liangzong Ma

  • Hayden Schrauff

  • Sachin Srivastava

  • Aiqi Sun

  • Margaret "Meggie" Underwood

  • Ronald Si Hang Wang

  • Yetong Xu

  • Yuan Yuan

  • Yuerong Zhuang

  • Richard Zitomer