Nobel International Business School
Doctor of Business Leadership affiliated with SBS Swiss Business School
Accra, Ghana
PhD
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: NiBS is a private boutique business school in Ghana that serves executives. Its delivery model fits busy executives and is forward looking. The Doctor of Business Leadership (DBL) and the Master of Applied Leadership Research (MALR) are awarded in affiliation with SBS Swiss Business School. The DBL prepares executives to lead in competitive national and global markets and develops advanced cognitive leadership skills to spot limits in current practice and gain insights into effective leadership.
Career Outcomes: Graduates enter senior leadership and strategy roles. Typical paths include C-suite (CEO), managing director, strategy director, consultant, entrepreneur, and executive coach across sectors globally.
The DBL program offered by NiBS is designed to develop and prepare executives to more effectively assume overall leadership responsibility within organizations operating in intensely competitive national and global markets.
Degree Awarded:
- Master of Applied Leadership Research (MALR)
- Doctor of Business Leadership (DBL)
- MGT 601 Management Research Perspectives 6 credits
- BUS 601 Information Technologies for Business Research 6 credits
- GLO 601 Leadership Theory and Practice 8 credits
- CRI 601 Critical Analysis of Research 8 credits
- MGT 653 Leadership Ethics, Governance & Social Responsibility 8 credits
- REM 651 Research Methods in Business & leadership 6 credits
- MGT 652 Management Research Design and Methodologies 8 credits
- DBA 770 Advanced Statistics 1 credits
- PRE 651 Preparation and Presentation of a Research Proposal 6 credits
- DBA 778 Comprehensive Examination 3 credits
- LIT 734 Dissertation: Critical Literature Review 30 credits
- RES 820 Dissertation: Empirical Research 30 credits
- RES 839 Dissertation: Case Study 30 credits
- DEF 709 Dissertation: External Examination 15 credits
- DEF 717 Dissertation: Oral Presentation and Defense 15 credits
Total: 180 credits
The objectives of this program include:
- Enable business leaders to develop their skills in understanding, evaluating, and creating new knowledge within their profession, thereby making an individual and independent contribution to the development/ enhancement of professional practice in business leadership.
- To enable experienced business leaders, to develop a deeper understanding of leadership theory and research.
- To develop ‘practitioner-scholars’ who will conduct and publish the results of rigorous applied leadership research that advances an area of knowledge and practice, and
- To develop academically sound business leaders who will be able to teach/transfer their knowledge in the various fields of leadership and governance.
- Produce a thesis or portfolio based on high-quality original research of publishable standard (suitable for dissemination to their profession), demonstrating critical evaluation and synthesis in relation to current literature and professional leadership practice.
