DBA Course Schedule 2025

Live online webcam seminars are 90 minutes; the first hour is led by the professor and the final half-hour is for student-led discussion. All times are California/Pacific Time. Please note the schedule is subject to change.

Term Term Dates Courses Offered Live Online Webcam Seminar Dates
1 January 2, 2025 -
February 9, 2025

DBA 623 Human Resource Management Science

DBA 850 Dissertation

TBA
2 February 12, 2024 -
March 24, 2024

DBA 651 Sustainable Accounting Management

DBA 850 Dissertation

TBA
3 March 25, 2024 -
May 5, 2024

DBA 625 Applied Research Methods – Qualitative & Quantitative

DBA 627 Business Analytics

DBA 850 Dissertation

TBA
4 May 6, 2024 -
June 16, 2024

DBA 629 Global Strategy & Innovation Management

DBA 635 Transforming Systems through Adaptive Leadership

DBA 850 Dissertation

TBA
5 June 17 -
July 28, 2024

DBA 610 (Int Bus. Specialized) International Financial Management

DBA 611 Sustainable Lifecycle Management

DBA 850 Dissertation

 

Comprehensive Exam (Jul 29 - Aug 4)

TBA
6 Aug 5 -
September 15, 2024

DBA 621 Sustainable Project Management

DBA 633 (Int Bus. Specialized) Ethics in Business and Management 

DBA 850 Dissertation

TBA
7 September 16 -
October 27, 20243

DBA 640 (Int Bus. Specialized) International Business Law and Practice 

DBA 820 Writing the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal

DBA 850 Dissertation

 TBA
8 October 28 -
December 8, 2024

DBA 602 Intellectual Property

DBA 850 Dissertation

 TBA

 

 

Anaheim University’s Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree program is comprised of 60 graduate credit hours beyond a completed MBA. The DBA program consists of 9 foundation courses in business administration and research, a qualifying exam which the student must pass at the end of the first year of study, 4 courses in the student’s chosen area of concentration, 2 elective courses, a comprehensive exam which the student must pass in order to advance to the dissertation phase, and a dissertation. Each course in the DBA program is three credit hours, with the exception of the final dissertation writing course.

Curriculum for the DBA with a concentration in Sustainable Management:

Foundational Courses :

DBA 602 Intellectual Property  
DBA 605 International and Multinational Marketing  
DBA 615 Leadership in Global and Multicultural Organizations  
DBA 625 Applied Research Methods - Qualitative & Quantitative  
DBA 627 Business Analytics  
DBA 617 International Supply Chain Management  
DBA 629 Global Strategy & Innovation Management  
DBA 635 Transforming Systems through Adaptive Leadership  
DBA 645 Academic Research and Writing  

 

Sustainable Management courses:

DBA 611 Sustainable Lifecycle Management  
DBA 621 Sustainable Project Management  
DBA 651 Sustainable Accounting Management  
DBA 711 Seminar in Global Business Sustainability  

 

Elective Courses (Choose 1 in each of 2 of the other 3 concentrations):

Management Core Courses :
DBA 613 Organizational Development and Change Management  
DBA 623 Human Resource Management Science  
DBA 633 Ethics in Business and Management  
DBA 640 International Business Law and Practice  
International Business courses:
DBA 610 International Financial Management  
DBA 633 Ethics in Business Management  
DBA 640 International Business Law and Practice  
DBA 710 Seminar in International Business  
Entrepreneurship courses:
DBA 612 Creative Entrepreneurship  
DBA 613 Organizational Development and Change Management  
DBA 622 Entrepreneurial Funding  
DBA 632 Social Entrepreneurship  

 

Doctoral Dissertation Studies Courses :

DBA 820 Writing the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal  
DBA 850 Doctoral Dissertation Completion  

The Online Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) through Anaheim University’s Akio Morita School of Business allows working professionals to obtain a DBA degree while working full time no matter where they reside. Experience the following AU advantages:

Benefits

  • Enjoy a highly interactive online program as you connect with your professor and classmates in two 90-minute live online webcam seminars per course and daily discussion forum
  • Learn from expert guest speakers and highly-qualified professors, who hold doctoral degrees and have extensive experience in various fields of business
  • Receive the Doctor of Business Administration degree through the flexibility of online learning
  • Network with individuals from around the world, providing a rich and culturally diverse environment in which to study.
  • Earn your Doctoral degree in approximately 3 years while working full-time

 

Features:

  • 9 foundation courses + 4 courses in chosen area of concentration + 2 elective courses + Dissertation
  • Accelerated learning – courses are six weeks long
  • Live online webcam seminars twice during each course
  • New terms begin every 6 weeks
  • Complete a dissertation that explores an existing issue and provides the opportunity to display mastery of the theory and concepts covered in your course of study
  • Total duration = Approximately 3 years

Objectives

Upon completion of the DBA program, students will be able to:

  • Analyze and interpret organizations operating in an increasingly global, diverse and technological environment.
  • Conduct original research of leadership principles, theories, and skills required to enhance organizational performance
  • Apply the concepts of ethical and sustainable leadership to manage change and optimize organizational performance.
  • Enhance leadership capacity of organizations in a variety of workplace settings.
  • Analyze organizational structures to assist in improving organizational performance.
  • Devise appropriate strategies for ongoing professional development and implementation of these strategies upon successful completion of the DBA.
  • Design and construct a publishable research project

Andrew E. Honeycutt, DBA

Andrew E. Honeycutt, DBA

President, Anaheim University
Professor

Dr. Andrew E. Honeycutt, President of Anaheim University, is the recipient of a Harvard University Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree in Marketing and a Boston University Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Organizational Behavior. Dr. Honeycutt has served as Dean of the School of Business and Management and Director of the Economic Research and Development Center at the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, Dean of the College of Business and Technology of Argosy Univ...

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Robert Robertson, Ph.D.

Dr. Robertson

Dean, Akio Morita School of Business

Dr. Robert Robertson holds a Ph.D. in Management and Organization (Stirling University, Scotland); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management Executive Certificate in Innovation and Strategy, Post-Doctoral Professional Certificate, International Business and Leadership (Argosy University); Post Graduate Diploma in International Management-China (University of London); Master of Studies in Law (Vermont Law School); Master of Public Administration (Dalhousie University, Canada); a Master of Arts (Eastern Kentucky University) and a Bachelor of Science (East Tennesse...

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Kwok Shum, Ph.D.

Kwok Shum, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, Akio Morita School of Business
Director, Kisho Kurokawa Green Institute
Professor

After earning a Stanford University Master of Science in Engineering degree, Dr. Kwok Shum received his Ph.D. in Management of Technology from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Dr. Shum’s research and teaching interests lie in new technologies, renewable energy industry and deployment, the business of renewable energy and clean technologies. Dr. Shum has taught at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and conducted workshops for the Clinton Foundation’s C40 Large Cities Climate Summit, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Hong Kong Baptist University. He has served as a Reviewer for...

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Carlos Aquino, Ph.D.

Dr. Carlos Aquino

Professor

Holding a George Washington University MS in Structural Engineering and a University of Sao Paolo Ph.D. in Sciences and Technology, Dr. Carlos Tasso Eira De Aquino is an accomplished senior executive and educator combining over 25 years of experience in leadership and scholarship in Business, Education, IT, and Engineering. In his executive career, he has been strategically building, managing and guiding diverse teams to solve complex, systemic problems. As an educator, he has taught, developed and supervised, and published relevant research and scholarship. In that area, he is adept at dev...

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Vince Carter, Ph.D.

Vince Carter

Professor

Dr. E. Vince Carter is a Professor at the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business and Kisho Kurokawa Green Institute. Vince’s teaching approach develops learning blueprints to align structured Green Marketing skills with creative knowledge discovery. This dialectical dynamic embraces the spirit of Kisho Kurokawa’s design philosophy of symbiosis for The Age of Life. Dr. Carter is a nationally recognized marketing educator, as well as an experienced researcher, consultant, and community volunteer. After graduating with Dean’s List Honors from the Columbia Business School MBA program...

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Robert Diotalevi, J.D.

Dr. Robert Diotalevi

Professor

Dr. Robert Diotalevi, Esq., LL.M., is serving in his 17th year as Associate Professor of Legal Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. He was the founding Legal Studies Program coordinator. He has been a lawyer for 33 years as a member of the Massachusetts and Florida bars. He possesses 4 degrees and has been internationally published with over 80 manuscripts in print. In 2009 Dr. Diotalevi had a book published by Cengage. It is entitled “The Florida Paralegal.” As an academician since 1985 he has instructed over 400 courses. Dr. Diotalevi was a professional broadca...

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Mariah Jeffery, Ph.D., CSCP

Dr. Mariah Jeffrey

Professor

Dr. Mariah Jeffery holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and is an APICS Certified Supply Chain Practitioner. She has extensive industry experience, consulting on supply chain management and data analytics for Fortune 500 clients, including IBM, Coca-Cola, General Motors, and the United States Postal Service. Dr. Jeffery has expertise in decision analysis, inventory management, predictive analytics, supply chain management and design, logistics, data analytics, operational research and forecasting, stat...

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Tamara Myatt, Ph.D.

Dr. Tamara Myatt

Professor

Holding a Ph.D. and Masters in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University, Tamara Myatt has spent more than a decade transforming the professional and educational lives of young and disadvantaged people in some of the poorest and most dangerous regions of the world, championing the causes of women, and orchestrating locally and globally scaled initiatives in the business sphere. The specialized focus of her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development was in in women’s entrepreneurship in regions of war. She is currently pursuing advanced studies/research in entrepr...

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Chris Raymond, Ph.D.

Chris Raymond

Professor

Dr. Christopher Raymond earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and later completed an international MBA from École National des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France. After earning his MBA, Dr. Raymond became an economics lecturer in the Management School at Imperial College, London. While there, he also served as Deputy Director of their Executive MBA program.

In 1996, after five years in London, Dr. Raymond moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where he worked as a senior financial analyst and chief economist. In 2009, Dr. Raymond left the private sector and returned to academics, first in Thailand, and later in Cambodia. Dr. Raymond has been at the American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP) since 2015, teaching courses in finance, accounting, economics and statistics.

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Stavros Sindakis, Ph.D.

Dr. Stavros Sindakis

Professor

With both a Ph.D. and MBA in Strategy, Enterprise & Innovation from the University of Portsmouth, Dr. Stavros Sindakis has made significant contributions to these fields through his research and publications on entrepreneurship and business innovation including his books Entrepreneurial Rise in Southeast Asia, and Analytics, Innovation and Excellence-Driven Enterprise Sustainability, with his third in progress. Dr. Stavros Sindakis is an educator, advisor, mentor and innovator in the fields of business innovation, management, entrepreneurship, and service design and development. As an educator, he has taught in several different countries at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and held a variety of advisory and mentoring positions for students and faculty at numerous schools including the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs and Laureate Online Education. 

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Barbara Son, Ph.D.

Barbara Son, Ph.D.

Professor

Holding a Ph.D. in Urban Business Economics from Portland State University, and a Masters in Urban Affairs with a concentration in Technology, Business, Economics, and Public Administration from Boston University, Dr. Barbara Son is well-experienced in the field of online education and has taught global management at Boeing in Long Beach, DBA at University of Sarasota/Argosy University, MBA at Pepperdine University, operations management at California State University, Northridge, and entrepreneurship and economics at California State University, Los Angeles, as well as served as a site rev...

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John Wang, Ph.D.

John Wang, Ph.D.

Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Professor

Dr. John Wang is Chair of the Anaheim University Institutional Review Board and a Professor for the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business. He received a scholarship award to complete his Ph.D. in Business Administration at Temple University in 1990, after earning his M.S. in Systems Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology. In addition to his roles at the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business, Dr. John Wang is a professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at Montclair State University. Dr. Wang received his tenure in 1997 and was promoted...

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William Hartley Ph.D.

William Hartley, Ph.D.

President Emeritus
Professor

Dr. Hartley's background is a combination of education, private sector work, teaching and consulting. Holding a bachelor's degree, three master's degrees, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, University of California at Berkeley and University of Wisconsin respectively, Dr. Hartley has had a variety of jobs from administrative manager of the R&D division of a Fortune 500 company to the executive training program of Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan, in addition to owning and operating an art gallery. Dr. Hartley has had an extensive career in higher education, teaching in...

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Caryn Callahan, Ph.D.

Caryn Callahan, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Holding a Harvard University Ph.D. in East Asian Languages in Civilizations with a specialization in Japan and an MBA specializing in Finance-Accounting from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Dr. Caryn Callahan is a former Vice President and International Equity Analyst for Merrill Lynch Japan as well as Financial Analyst for W.R. Grace & Co.. A professor of Anaheim University's Akio Morita School of Business, Dr. Callahan has also taught courses in Corporate Finance, International Business, Organizational Behavior, and Management at Chaminade University in Hawaii. Dr. Ca...

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