Who Can Apply:
- Students interested in pursuing a PhD in Operations Management can often use a boost as they embark on that journey. The right boost, the right spark can go a long way to inspire brilliant minds to take their first steps along that path. That is the mission of the DOME Scholarship initiative: Inspiring current students to consider PhD program opportunities to extend their educational development and venture down a path critical to intellectual progress and our field’s impact on the world.
- The ideal scholarship applicant is either a current undergraduate or graduate student, in their last year of their current program, interested in continuing their educational experience in pursuit of a PhD, and a career in academia. Individuals with academic backgrounds in fields of business, economics or engineering tend to have the most alignment with the curriculum and topics considered in Operations Management. Most critically, individuals applying should have a clear contextual understanding of the OM field, what is involved in a typical PhD program, and the nature of an academic career in OM (all of these details are provided are www.project-DOME.com ). They should be able to identify a set of 5-10 programs of a coherent theme, aligned with their own interested, that they plan to apply to, and they should also express a commitment to a 4-6 year in- person residency on a campus providing these programs (in-person, not on-line).
Submission: To apply, tell us about your pursuit of operations management, how it has prepared you for a PhD program, and where you are in the PhD application process.
Deadline: April 23, 2026
Amount: $1,000
Learn More: https://bold.org/scholarships/DOME-journey-scholarship/