The IT doctoral program is structured in terms of the three aspects of information technologies that we believe are the most relevant to management research: economic, social and technological. We offer doctoral seminars in the first two aspects and IT coursework in the third aspect. These courses constitute part of our major requirement. The minor requirement of the IT doctoral program reflects on the particular disciplinary orientation of the student. Students typically focus on one of the three aspects of IT in their degree. For each of these streams, students take designated minor courses in the following departments respectively: MIT's economics department and Sloan's applied economics group; Sloan's organizations studies group; MIT's science, technology and society department, and Harvard's sociology department; and MIT's computer science department.

In addition, IT doctoral students take appropriate methodology courses such as econonmetrics, statistics, qualititative field methods, again depending on their breadth and foundation requirements of the Management Science area. The first two years of the program, students are engaged primarily in taking courses. At the end of the second year, students complete a Part II paper and then start preparing for their general examinations. After taking and passing these examinations, students begin work on their dissertation research.