About the event
Online webinar with Professor Nadav Klein
Tuesday 13 October 2026, 18:00–19:00 CEST (Paris)
Paris, France Tue, 13 Oct 2026 at 18:00 CEST
London, United Kingdom Tue, 13 Oct 2026 at 17:00 BST
New York, USA Tue, 13 Oct 2026 at 12:00 EDT
San Francisco, USA Tue, 13 Oct 2026 at 09:00 PDT
Singapore, Singapore Wed, 14 Oct 2026 at 00:00 SGT
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Who is encouraged to attend?
Who this session is for
This online event is for students and graduates in psychology, behavioural science and related fields who are considering a PhD and want an understanding of a PhD in management for a possible career as an academic in business schools. It is particularly relevant if you are completing, or have completed, a research master's in social and/or behavioural sciences, social psychology, cognitive sciences, statistics in psychology, behavioural economics, or related subject areas.
No business background or MBA is needed, either to attend or to apply.
Speaker
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
About the online session
About the session
Many of the questions psychologists care about, such as how people judge one another, decide, cooperate and communicate, are also central to organisational behaviour (OB). In this session, Professor Nadav Klein will explain what a PhD in Management in OB offers researchers from a psychology background, and how the two paths compare.
Submit your research question
When you register, you will be asked to share a research question you are working on or are interested in. It does not need to be polished; One or two sentences are enough. Tell us what you want to understand, not necessarily how you would study it. Questions may be discussed anonymously during the session.
What the session will cover:
- Why pursue an OB PhD vs. a straight psychology/sociology / social science PhD
- How an OB scholar vs. a social scientist would approach the same research question differently
- Overlap in target journals between fields
- OB as inherently interdisciplinary - treats psychology as raw material rather than a finished discipline to defend, borrowing freely from psych, econ, sociology, and anthropology and letting the best empirical answer win regardless of origin
- A worked example using actual research, showing the psych framing vs. the OB reframing side by side
- Funding and career economics: stipend levels, TA load, and academic job market differences between psych and business-school PhDs
- Myth-busting: no business background or MBA required - most OB PhD cohorts come from psych/econ/sociology backgrounds
- Interactive segment: attendees will submit a research question in advance; we will live-translate a few into how this would look as an OB dissertation question
- A texture-level look at the actual job - fieldwork and company data partnerships, case-based MBA teaching, practitioner engagement
- Understanding the application: they require roughly the same materials and test scores as the application to social science PhDs, but with the addition of the GRE exam
- Listing INSEAD OB faculty and their research interests and publications for potential matches
Important things to note
Join us live:
We encourage you to attend live, as this is the best way to put your questions to Professor Klein and take part in the discussion.
Register early:
Registration remains open until the session begins. We encourage you to register early, as places may close sooner if demand is high.
After the online session:
Online applications for the PhD in Management, Organisational Behaviour area, are now open. The PhD Office will follow up with an invitation to a PhD application workshop for anyone who would like to go through the requirements and process in more detail.
