This course is designed to equip doctoral students with the advanced practitioner-scholar skills and knowledge necessary to research, analyze, write, and defend three types of possible dissertations: traditional Dissertation, Practice-Based Book, and a DBA business plan, as distinguished from an MBA business plan. By the end of the course, DBA students will be able to produce and present high-quality, Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved, APA formatted, Proquest publishable, ethical research outputs aligned with DBA expectations and practice-oriented impact. Use of GenAI tools for doctoral research and peer-reviewed publications will be covered.