Enhanced Career Options

Bob Goehrke

What do you do when you've finally accomplished your goal of completing a full Ironman Triathlon? How about earn a doctorate?

"I thought it was time to do some 'above the neck' fitness," says Bob Goehrke, a 2002 graduate and marketing professional who helped build iconic brands such as Clairol, Converse, and Bath & Body Works. "I was stimulated by Pace and loved the flexibility of the program. With a marketing job at Clairol and four small children, that was a must."

Goehrke found the intellectual fitness he was looking for in a dissertation that led him to his new career as CEO of Dream Team Marketers International, Inc., a consulting firm he founded to help beauty businesses develop their brand and cultivate relationships with customers.

"The dissertation process was a great lesson in building something from scratch," he says. "I learned the power of research, and the painstaking process of revising my dissertation was a humbling exercise in focusing on attention to detail."

Now, with both a triathlon and a doctorate under his belt, Goehrke is focusing on his company, which recently celebrated its first year in business with clients like Moen, Bath & Body Works and Yankee Candle, Berkshire Hathaway, and Nike.

"Lubin exposed me to constant new intellectual challenges at a time in my career when you run the risk of getting intellectually stale," he says. "I'm proud to have my Pace diploma in my den right next to the degrees from Tufts and Harvard."
Increasing Success and Satisfaction

It's a common feeling: "My career is solid, yet something is missing." The Lubin School of Business can help you satisfy that need.

Pace University's doctoral curriculum is designed for successful executives and business professionals who have an MBA and want to advance to the forefront of emerging business ideas, practices, and trends. Ideal candidates for this degree are:

  • Managers who combine significant business experience with high intellectual capacity and curiosity

  • Practitioners who view higher education as a resource for creatively confronting complex business challenges

  • Professionals who seek breadth as well as depth of understanding about business and its environment

  • Individuals who seek an advanced education while still maintaining a full-time position

  • People who are considering a move into consulting or academia to share their expertise and insight with others
This executive doctoral degree fulfills the practical needs of business executives—the ability to conceptualize and analyze, to think strategically and globally, and to lead more creatively and effectively. The program's robust conceptual framework will give you a broader view of global business and an integrative perspective on problems that you will apply directly to your business and your career in powerful ways.

As the first executive doctorate in the United States, the Doctor of Professional Studies (DPS) program was founded in 1972. Fulfilling a need originally identified by management guru Peter Drucker, the DPS program has remained one of the flagship executive doctoral programs in the world. Graduates of the program continue to grow and develop in their careers while contributing to business and society.

This doctorate is unique.