PhD specialisation in Business and Management Science
Business and Management Science is the discipline of using analytical methods to help make better decisions.
Research at the Department of Business and Management Science aims to understand and improve management practice using analytical methods. Faculty members have backgrounds from economics, finance, operations research, mathematics and statistics, and the research covers both empirical and theoretical inquiries. The research portfolio includes a number of topics, and is organised in six areas:
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Areas of research
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Course component
Course component
A minimum of 45 credits need to be completed normally within the second year. The following courses are mandatory:
- Scientific Methods
- Microeconomics
In addition, each PhD candidate has to take at least one of the following method courses:
- BEA511, BEA512, BEA513, BEA514, ECS508, ECS509
The combination of elective courses depends on the choice of specialisation (BE, ENE or MS) and is normally a mix of external courses and courses given at NHH.
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General requirements for admission
General requirements for admission
Students should hold a Master’s degree in business economics, economics, finance or another quantitative discipline. Candidates with an incomplete background in business economics, economics, finance, mathematics, statistics, or probability theory will be required to take suitable classes in the Masters programme and students with only an undergraduate degree will normally not be considered.
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Doctoral dissertations and placements 2025-2029
Doctoral dissertations and placements 2025-2029
16.09.2025 Andres Felipe Velez Correa
Reactive Evacuation Systems for Cruise Vessels: Network Models and Optimization Strategies
Supervisor: Stein W. WallacePlacement (first position): Consigli
12.08.2025 Costanza Maria Ludovica Cincotta
Essays in Environmental and Public Economics
Supervisor: Øyvind ThomassenPlacement (first position): CUNEF Universidad
26.06.2025 Henrik Svensli
Essays on multinational firm behavior
Supervisor: Guttorm SchjelderupPlacement (first position): The Norwegian Complaints Board Secretariat
25.06.2025 Benjamin P. Fram
Essays on Electricity Market Dynamics
Supervisor: Mette BjørndalPlacement (first position): NHH
24.04.2025 Yue Shi
Statistical modeling of climate risk in home insurance claims
Supervisor: Håkon OtneimPlacement (first position):
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Doctoral dissertations and placements 2020-2024
Doctoral dissertations and placements 2020-2024
30.08.2024 Cosku Can Orhan
Public Planning of Freight Transport in Logistically Complicated Small Cities
Supervisor: Stein W. WallacePlacement (first position): NHH
27.05.2024 Christian Braathen
Essays on Staffing and Transportation
Supervisor: Mario GuajardoPlacement (first position): Storebrand
07.05.2024 Xuan Li
Essays on Shareholders Engagement and Voting
Supervisor: Geir Drage BerentsenPlacement (first position): Söderberg & Partners
06.05.2024 Benjamin Narum
Representations of Uncertainty for Decision Modelling
Supervisor: Julio C . GóezPlacement (first position): Optimeering Aqua
26.04.2024 Thomas Lange
The Effects of Labour Migration and Interventions on Tax Compliance
Supervisor: Evelina Gavrilova-ZoutmanPlacement (first position): Statkraft
12.02.2024 Azam Azad Gholami
Models for Spatial Consequences of Changes in Commuting Patterns
Supervisor: Jan UbøePlacement (first position):
22.01.2024 Mahnaz Fakhrabadi
Supervisor: Leif K. SandalPlacement (first position): Jotun
11.12.2023 Kyriaki Tselika
Essays on Energy Markets and the Environment
Supervisor: Gunnar S. EskelandPlacement (first position): SINTEF
03.10.2023 Atle Haugen
Supervisor: Øystein ForosPlacement (first position): BI Norwegian Business School
20.06.2023 Øivind André Strand Aase
Supervisor: Jarle MøenPlacement (first position): Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)
21.02.2023 Gabriel Fuentes Lezcano
Maritime transport applications in an operational efficiency perspective
Supervisor: Roar Os Ådland
Placement (first position): NHH
09.02.2023 Rasmus Noss Bang
Supervisor: Stein Ivar SteinshamnPlacement (first position): SNF
12.01.2023 André Wattø Sjuve
Supervisor: Trond M. DøskelandPlacement (first position): NHH
17.06.2022 Andreas Olden
Essays on Behavioural Economics and Tax Compliance
Supervisor: Jarle MøenPlacement (first position): The Norwegian Tax Administration
10.06.2022 Nahid Rezaeinia
Contributions to the Methodology and Practice of Optimization Problems with Multiple Preferences
Supervisor: Mario GuajardoPlacement (first position):
26.04.2022 Ritvana Rrukaj
Supervisor: Leif K. SandalPlacement (first position): Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
17.12.2021 Andreas Ørpetveit
Essays on Actively Managed Equity Mutual Funds
Supervisor: Trond M. DøskelandPlacement (first position): NHH
16.06.2021 Somayeh Rahimi Alangi
Supervisor: Mette BjørndalPlacement (first position): Equinor
28.10.2020 Ondrej Osicka
Topics in cooperative game theory and logistics
Supervisor: Mario GuajardoPlacement (first position): NHH
08.09.2020 Lisa Maria Assmann
Forecasting, Efficiency and Speed in Maritime Shipping
Supervisor: Jonas AnderssonPlacement (first position): Steem1960 Steensland Shipbrokers
15.06.2020 Evangelos Toumasatos
Essays on game theory and fisheries management
Supervisor: Stein Ivar SteinshamnPlacement (first position): Arvato Financial Solutions
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Doctoral dissertations and placements 2015-2019
Doctoral dissertations and placements 2015-2019
26.11.2019 Yuanming Ni
Supervisor: Stein Ivar SteinshamnPlacement (first position): SNF - Centre for Applied Research at NHH
17.10.2019 Aija (Polakova) Rusina
Essays on multinational firm behaviour: Profit shifting, secrecy jurisdictions and stock value?
Supervisor: Guttorm SchjelderupPlacement (first position): PricewaterhouseCoopers
09.04.2019 Mai Nguyen-Ones
Supervisor: Øystein ForosPlacement (first position): The Norwegian Competition Authority
10.12.2018 Ørjan Mydland
Essays on efficiency and economies of scope and scale in electricity networks
Supervisor: Mette BjørndalPlacement (first position): Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
22.11.2018 Vit Procházka
Uncertainty modeling and spatial positioning in tramp shipping
Supervisor: Stein W. WallacePlacement (first position): SNF - Centre for Applied Research at NHH
26.10.2018 Hong Cai
Essays on the European Electricity Markets
Supervisor: Endre BjørndalPlacement (first position): CentraleSupélec, France
25.09.2018 Lars Hegnes Sendstad
Essays on Investments in Emerging Technologies: A Real Options Approach
Supervisor: Petter BjerksundPlacement (first position): NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
28.08.2018 Yewen Gu
Maritime Emission Regulations and Operations Research in Shipping
Supervisor: Stein W. WallacePlacement (first position): SNF - Centre for Applied Research at NHH
23.05.2018 Evangelos Kyritsis
Energy Markets in Transition: Renewables, Bounds and Uncertainty: An Econometric Approach
Supervisor: Jonas AnderssonPlacement (first position): VATT Institute for Economic Research
12.03.2018 Reza Azad Gholami
Essays on Equilibria in Non-autonomous Bilevel Stochastic Games
Supervisor: Leif K. SandalPlacement (first position): NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
30.01.2018 Seyed Mostafa Mirhedayatian
Contribution to rich vehicle routing problems
Supervisor: Stein W. WallacePlacement (first position): Tieto Norway
29.11.2017 Shiyu Yan
Automobile in Transition: An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Policies for Reducing
Supervisor: Gunnar S. EskelandPlacement (first position): ESRI - The Economic and Social Research Institute
11.01.2017 Nikhil Atreya
Banks: Liability Value and Optimal Capital Structure Under Alternative Asset Specifications
Supervisor: Svein-Arne PerssonPlacement (first position): DNB
20.05.2016 Ivan Belik
An Integrated Analysis of Strategic Network Formation
Supervisor: Kurt Jörnsten
Placement (first position): NHH
18.12.2015 Xiaomei Cheng
Essays on Efficiency and Productivity in Electricity Networks
Supervisor: Endre BjørndalPlacement (first position): NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
20.08.2015 Sahar Babri
Essays on Transportation
Supervisor: Jan UbøePlacement (first position): SINTEF
08.06.2015 Victoria Gribkovskaia
Essays on Congestion Management in Electricity Markets
Supervisor: Mette BjørndalPlacement (first position): MARINTEK
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Doctoral dissertations and placements 2010-2014
Doctoral dissertations and placements 2010-2014
10.06.2014 Patrick A. Narbel
Essays in Renewable Energy Economics
Supervisor: Gunnar S. EskelandPlacement (first position): Sund Energy
30.08.2013 Mario Guajardo
Joint decision making and cost sharing: Theory and applications in natural resource supply chains
Supervisor: Mikael RönnqvistPlacement (first position): NHH
14.12.2012 Jiehong Kong
Integration and coordination of supply chain: Case studies in the forestry and petroleum industries
Supervisor: Mikael RönnqvistPlacement (first position): SINTEF
09.11.2012 Xiaozi Liu
Essays on economic optimization: bridging fisheries economics and fisheries biology
Supervisor: Leif K. SandalPlacement (first position): Greenpeace
07.09.2012 Xunhua Su
Credit Rationing: Theory and Evidence
Supervisor: Karin S. ThorburnPlacement (first position): Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
31.08.2012 Diwakar Poudel
Stochastic Analysis in Fisheries Management
Supervisor: Leif K. SandalPlacement (first position): NHH
06.06.2012 Ove Rein Hetland
Essays on Financial Intermediation
Supervisor: Jørgen HaugPlacement (first position): Ernst & Young
30.05.2012 Veronica Araoz
Pricing in Non-Convex Electricity Markets
Supervisor: Kurt Jörnsten
Placement (first position): Gjensidige
14.05.2012 Johannes Mauritzen
Windonomics: empirical essays on the economics of wind power in the Nordic electricity market
Supervisor: Jonas AnderssonPlacement (first position): Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm
16.09.2011 Peter Molnàr
Supervisor: Kjell G. Nyborg
Placement (first position): Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
12.08.2011 Einar Bakke
Essays on IPOs
Supervisor: Kjell G. Nyborg
Placement (first position): University of Gothenburg
25.05.10 David McArthur
Regional labour markets and spatial interaction mechanisms
Supervisor: Jan UbøePlacement (first position): Stord/Haugesund University College
14.05.2010 Lars Magne Nonås
Optimization topics within power markets, inventory systems with transshipments and election systems
Placement (first position): MARINTEK - SINTEF
25.03.2010 Lars Qvigstad Sørensen
Essays on Asset Pricing
Supervisor: Jørgen HaugPlacement (first position): RiskMetrics Group
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Doctoral dissertations and placements 2005-2009
Doctoral dissertations and placements 2005-2009
26.06.2009 Knut Peder Heen
Essays in Corporate Governance
Supervisor: Hans K. HvidePlacement (first position): University of Mannheim
11.05.2009 Linda Rud
Essays on Electricity Markets
Supervisor: Kurt Jörnsten
Placement (first position): NHH
26.09.2008 Jan-Magnus Moberg
Essays on Empirical Market Microstructure
Supervisor: Jonas AnderssonPlacement (first position): PricewaterhouseCoopers
19.06.2008 Tao Lin
Application of a Stochastic Price Modeling Method to Energy Commodities and Their Derivative Contracts
Supervisor: Kristian R. MiltersenPlacement (first position): Statoil ASA
17.12.2007 Dennis Frestad
Electricity spot and forward price dynamics and its relation to the market risk premium and risk management
Supervisor: Petter BjerksundPlacement (first position): University of Agder
14.12.2007 Aksel Mjøs
Corporate Finance: Capital Structure and Hybrid Capital
Supervisor: B. Espen EckboPlacement (first position): NHH
15.11.2007 Helge A. Nordahl
An Analysis of Life and Pension Insurance Contracts
Supervisor: Svein-Arne PerssonPlacement (first position): Gard AS
15.05.2007 Trond M. Døskeland
Supervisor: Svein-Arne PerssonPlacement (first position): NHH
10.11.2006 Asmund Olstad
Dynamic pricing and lot-sizing within manufacturing
Supervisor: Kurt Jörnsten
Placement (first position): Molde University College
22.06.2006 Dick Carlsson
Planning and decision support in the pulp and paper supply chain
Supervisor: Mikael RönnqvistPlacement (first position): Södra Cell AB
18.01.2005 Arne-Christian Lund
Stochastic Modelling Approaches in Economics and Finance
Supervisor: Leif K. SandalPlacement (first position): NHH
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Doctoral dissertations and placements 2000-2004
Doctoral dissertations and placements 2000-2004
02.09.2004 Randi Næs
Supervisor: Steinar Ekern
Placement (first position): Central Bank of Norway
25.03.2004 Fridthjof Ollmar
An Analysis of Derivative Prices in the Nordic Power Market
Supervisor: Jostein LillestølPlacement (first position): Agder Energi AS
28.11.2003 Ola Kvaløy
Relational Incentive Contracts and Allocation of Ownership Rights
Supervisor: Trond E. OlsenPlacement (first position): University of Stavanger
25.09.2003 Valeri Zakamouline
Optimal Portfolio Choice and Option Pricing in Markets with Transaction Costs
Supervisor: Knut K. AasePlacement (first position): Bodø University College
24.01.2003 Snorre Lindset
Essays on Compound Contingent Claims and Financial Guarantees
Supervisor: Svein-Arne PerssonPlacement (first position): Sør-Trøndelag University College
29.05.2002 Jarle Møen (Dept. of Economics)
Do spillovers justify subsidies to commercial R&D – Four microeconometric essays
Supervisor: Tor Jakob KlettePlacement (first position): NHH
24.05.2002 Endre Bjørndal
Cost Allocation Problems in Network and Production Settings
Supervisor: Kurt Jörnsten
Placement (first position): NHH
08.05.2002 Steen Koekebakker
Asian options and commodity contingent claims valuation
Supervisor: Svein-Arne PerssonPlacement (first position): University of Agder
20.12.2001 Jøril Mæland
Asymmetric Information and Irreversible Investments: Real Option Valuation and Strategies
Placement (first position): NHH
19.12.2001 Gudbrand Lien
Five Essays on Risk Analysis in Agriculture
Supervisor: Petter BjerksundPlacement (first position): Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute
06.12.2001 Per Bjarte Solibakke
Essays on Changing Volatility in Thinly Traded Equity Markets
Supervisor: Bernt Arne ØdegaardPlacement (first position): Molde University College
12.10.01 Tørres G. Trovik
Four Essays on Security Design: Motivation and Implementation
Supervisor: Gunnar StenslandPlacement (first position): Central Bank of Norway
09.10.2000 Al-Amin Ussif
Supervisor: Leif K. SandalPlacement (first position): University of Bergen
15.08.00 Iver Bragelien
Corporate coordination and the theory of the firm: Four essays
Supervisor: Terje LensbergPlacement (first position): NHH
23.06.00 Øyvind Halskau
Decompositions of Travelling Salesman Problems
Placement (first position): Molde University College
17.03.00 Mette Helene Bjørndal
Topics on Electricity Transmission Pricing
Placement (first position): NHH
11.02.00 Bjørne-Dyre Hougen Syversten
The apportionment problem – A monograph
Placement (first position): Sør-Trøndelag University College
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Doctoral dissertations and placements 1995-1999
Doctoral dissertations and placements 1995-1999
21.10.1999 Øyvind Norli
Adverse selection and seasoned security offerings
Supervisor: B. Espen EckboPlacement (first position): University of Toronto
29.06.1999 Jørgen Haug
A Treatise on Asset Pricing Theory with Additive Nonseparable von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility
Supervisor: Knut K. AasePlacement (first position): NHH
xx.xx.1998 Tore Wiig Jonsbråten
Optimization models for petroleum field exploitation
Supervisor: Kurt Jörnsten
Placement (first position): Stavanger University College
xx.xx.1998 Kjell Bjørn Nordal
Political uncertainty: valuation and decision making with focus on oil investments
Supervisor: Steinar Ekern
Placement (first position): NHH
xx.xx.1997 Anders Buvik
Essays on financial optimization
Supervisor: Kurt Jörnsten
Placement (first position): DnB Markets
xx.xx.1997 Atle Nordli
Six essays on dynamic and capacitated lot sizing
Placement (first position): NHH
xx.xx.1995 Heine Rasmussen
Social choice and the continuity axiom
Supervisor: Terje LensbergPlacement (first position): NHH
xx.xx.1995 Nils E. Joachim Høegh-Krohn
Producer assessment of demand and equilibrium in differentiated markets: a monograph on how producers who utilize a limited and specific set of information, anticipate consumer reactions, and how this assessment influences the market equilibrium
Placement (first position): SNF