Developing Advanced Business Capabilities through the Doctor of Business Administration programme
at Business School Lausanne
Throughout your doctoral journey at Business School Lausanne (BSL), you will do far more than earn
a doctoral-level qualification. You will engage in a rigorous process of intellectual, professional, and
personal development that strengthens your capacity to lead, think critically, and address complex
business challenges.
The DBA is not simply an extension of your previous education or professional experience.
Rather, it represents a transformative learning journey that enables experienced executives,
entrepreneurs, consultants, and senior professionals to develop a fundamentally different way of
understanding organizations, making decisions, and approaching complex problems.
The programme is designed to help you move beyond relying primarily on experience and intuition by
integrating scholarly knowledge with professional practice and developing the capacity to generate
new knowledge through rigorous research.
From a professional perspective, the DBA enables you to acquire new knowledge while deepening and
refining the expertise you have developed throughout your career.
Rather than simply expanding your existing managerial competencies, the programme cultivates
advanced analytical, strategic, and research capabilities that extend beyond those typically developed
in executive education.
It equips experienced business professionals with the ability to investigate complex business problems
systematically, generate evidence-based insights, and translate research into meaningful organizational
impact.
The programme also develops your capacity to bridge the worlds of research and practice.
One of the defining characteristics of the DBA is its emphasis on producing research that is both
academically rigorous and professionally relevant.
As a result, graduates are equipped to critically evaluate existing management theories while
simultaneously developing practical knowledge that contributes to improving organizational
performance, addressing real-world business challenges and driving meaningful organizational
transformation.
Ultimately, the Doctor of Business Administration at Business School Lausanne is designed to
produce scholar-practitioners who combine extensive professional experience with advanced research
capabilities.
Director of the Doctoral School of Business School Lausanne
