I would appreciate if anyone could give the list of books taught in HBS and MIT on hypothesis in PhD courses especially in the field of supply chain management or business administration or economic.
I am not sure about HBS & MIT but, you can't go wrong with: Theory Building for Hypothesis Specification in Organizational Studies by Pawar (2010), Sage : http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book234735
I believe one of the best.
You can try MIT OCW (open course ware) You can access the contents as well
Research Method Theory references that best anwer a student include Ray Allen Thietart, doing management research; research design by john creswell, experimental design , hair and andersen, research methods, Adams and Khsn and I also prefer Statistics for SPSS by Andy Fields.
What would be required howewver is search for reference papers in each topic of interest, whether qualitative design or quantitative design and based on research methods chosen, hypothesis should be a natural corollary with each test and data slice
I have co-edited book on the topic sometimes ago. Kindly remind me later for details. Prof. Khaliq
you can try even cooper and schindler - a good book on hypotheses.
regards