Monarch Business School · Executive doctoral study
Doctor of Management
You’ve earned your executive experience.
Now earn your doctorate.
Strengthen your authority, credibility and professional legacy. At Monarch Business School Switzerland, build on your executive experience to pursue the personal achievement of a doctorate—and turn the lessons of your career into insights that can guide others.
Program Facts
The Doctor of Management (D.Man) at Monarch Switzerland is a fully online, part-time executive doctoral programme offered through Monarch Business School, with a standard duration of 24 months. Designed for senior managers, executives and organisational leaders, it enables doctoral study alongside a career without the need to relocate.
- Institution
- Monarch Switzerland
- Department
- Monarch Business School
- Award
- Doctor of Management (D.Man)
- Study Mode
- Fully Online
- Standard Duration
- 24 Months
- Study Format
- Part-Time
- Designed For
- Senior Managers, Executives and Organisational Leaders
- Residency
- No Relocation Required
- Language
- English
- Institution Location
- Switzerland
This doctoral program may be completed fully online, including the doctoral defence. No relocation is required. Candidates may select an in-person doctoral defence when offered by Monarch.
An extended-duration pathway is available. Completion depends on research progress and fulfilment of the programme’s academic requirements.
Experience. Reflection. Contribution.
Your experience deserves a lasting contribution.
You have led teams, made consequential decisions and built experience that cannot be gained from a textbook alone. Now take that experience further. The Doctor of Management is designed for senior managers, executives and organisational leaders with a substantial record of professional practice—typically 20 or more years—who want to earn a doctorate and share the management lessons that define their career.
Your career provides the foundation for a reflective manuscript: a substantial written contribution shaped by your own experience and perspective. With faculty guidance, you revisit pivotal moments, explore what they taught you and connect those lessons with management ideas. Managerial storytelling, metaphor and critical analysis help you communicate insights that other leaders can learn from.
Bring your achievements, your perspective and your ambition. Develop a distinctive management contribution, strengthen your professional voice and work towards the pride of earning your doctorate—without leaving your career behind.
What you will develop
Greater authority. A stronger voice. A legacy of your own.
Confidence in your judgement
Deepen your understanding of the decisions that shaped your career and bring a more informed perspective to your next leadership challenge.
A distinctive management voice
Express the management lessons you have earned in ways that resonate with colleagues, clients and future leaders.
Credibility grounded in insight
Connect your experience with management ideas and evidence to develop a well-supported contribution you can discuss with confidence.
Broader leadership influence
Develop your perspective on people, responsibility and organisational impact, so your insights can help others navigate complex decisions.
Professional authorship
Create a substantial manuscript that brings your experience, perspective and management insights together in your own voice.
A contribution that lasts
Shape the lessons of your career into a professional legacy that others can learn from and build upon.
Your manuscript journey
Your experience, developed with guidance at every stage.
You do not need to arrive with a finished manuscript. Once you choose the Doctor of Management, faculty will guide you in developing your proposal and shaping your experience into a focused contribution. Individual mentorship supports you throughout the journey.
Select the experience
Start with the decisions, achievements and turning points that matter most to you and the lessons you want to share.
Frame the proposal
Work with your mentor to define your manuscript’s purpose, guiding questions and scope. Together, develop a proposal for academic approval, supported by relevant management scholarship.
Develop the manuscript
Examine what happened, why it mattered and how your understanding changed. Bring managerial storytelling, metaphor and critical analysis together to communicate meaningful insight.
Integrate the lessons
Bring patterns and contrasting experiences into a coherent contribution. Explain the usefulness, limits and context of the principles you develop.
Share your contribution
Present and discuss the completed work in a scholarly symposium, engaging with faculty, peers and invited colleagues.
Your experience. Your chosen focus.
Turn the defining moments of your career into insight.
These examples suggest possible manuscript themes drawn from the richness of executive life. Explore the decisions, relationships and turning points that have shaped your leadership, and work with your mentor to develop a direction that reflects your experience, interests and the contribution you wish to make.
Leading through uncertainty
What can pivotal decisions during disruption reveal about executive judgement, responsibility and the limits of established management assumptions?
Culture, trust and change
How have your approaches to organisational change evolved, and what do critical episodes reveal about trust, resistance and leadership influence?
Stewardship and professional legacy
Which hard-won principles from your career could help other leaders navigate competing interests, ethical tensions and long-term organisational responsibility?
Professionals taking their next step
Meet members of the doctoral community.
Meet experienced professionals bringing their own ambitions, career achievements and perspectives to the Doctor of Management.
Darrell Lines
United Kingdom
Doctor of Management candidate
A quality, health, safety and environmental professional with leadership experience across the energy sector, Darrell brings a background in risk governance, human factors and safety-critical operations. His doctoral interests connect executive judgement with organisational resilience and responsible leadership in high-risk industries.
Amanda Garcia
United States
Doctor of Management candidate
Amanda’s career in the United States federal judicial system spans more than two decades. Her professional experience brings together organisational leadership, policy and team management. Her doctoral interests explore leadership and team effectiveness in complex institutional settings, with attention to ethics, governance and evidence-informed practice.
Planning your next step
Take the next step without putting your career on hold.
Study alongside professional life.
Continue your professional life while working towards your doctorate. Remote, asynchronous study and individual mentorship allow you to plan your work around executive responsibilities. Optional workshops in Switzerland offer opportunities to exchange ideas and build connections. Admissions can help you explore the study plan and commitment that fit your circumstances.
Your experience. Your pathway to admission.
Assessment considers your professional portfolio, leadership experience and capacity for reflective doctoral work. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent is normally expected; alternative educational backgrounds are considered individually. Admission remains subject to academic review.
A corresponding master’s milestone.
The programme provides for the Master of Management as the corresponding Master-in-Passing award on successful doctoral completion, subject to applicable award requirements. The corresponding Master-in-Exit offers a separate pathway, with appropriate master’s-level work and academic approval required for the award.
Explore the Master-in-Passing framework →
Tuition and applicant resources.
Plan your investment in your next professional chapter. Explore current tuition and payment arrangements, and speak with Admissions about your intended study plan.
Your experience. Your next contribution.
You’ve built your career.
Now build your doctoral legacy.
Picture your next chapter: the pride of earning your doctorate, a stronger professional voice and a contribution that carries your experience forward. Tell us about your career and ambitions, and take the first step towards your Doctor of Management.