2025 Business Skills for PhDs: 5. Strategic and capabilities analysis

Most people associate the term “business” with the private sector. However, business skills and models are widely applied in every sector: public, private and non-profit (which includes academia). You are acquiring many transferable skills in your Ph.D. program that can be applied in academic roles as well as within a variety of industries and job functions. 

Join the 2025 business skills for PhDs learning cohort to better understand foundational concepts and language of business. This learning cohort includes experiential learning in the form of group capstone presentations under guidance of alum mentors. The cohort will meet on Thursdays, 4:30-6:30PM between Sep 18- Nov 20 (except fall break). Registering to one session will automatically register you to all sessions. 

Instructor: Michael Lenox, Professor of Business Adminsitration, UVA Darden School of Business