On this episode, Stacy talks with USA Global Scholar Dr. Torsten Pieper. Torsten is an Associate Professor of Management in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte, the President of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy, and the author of more than 20 articles and nine books on family business. He gives some great insights and specific advice when searching for the right post-graduate business degree or Ph.D. and ensuring you're not wasting your valuable money and time and not shooting yourself in the academic foot.

Key Takeaways

- Make sure you're looking at AACSB accredited institutions and colleges.

- Find a traditional or non-traditional degree that fits your lifestyle and long-term career goals.

- Research the instructors and professors. You want to work directly with the best researchers and instructors in that school.

- Look for a program that will teach you to research correctly and how to get published.

Compare your list of AACSB programs, and then determine how they differ.

Torsten Pieper Says: There's a lot of confusion out there in the market over the years. There's Doctor of Business Administration, Executive Ph.D., Executive Doctorate, Executive Doctorate Management. There are so many names and programs that came about that I can see how people can get very quickly confused.

One important criterion you want to take into your calculation is to make sure the school has AACSB accreditation. Otherwise, you are wasting the money.

You need to make sure that somebody teaches you how to publish and how to get published. You need to do research that has a chance of getting published, that has a chance of getting published. Because otherwise, you spend a bunch of money and at the end, you will have a degree from a school with a nice name. But if you still don't know how to do research and that's what you want to do, then kind of shot yourself in the foot.

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A Moment with Dr. Torsten Pieper