Research Faculty

Core Faculty

	Thomas Byers, Co-Director of STVP Tom Byers' research and consulting centers on key success factors in the creation and growth of high-technology ventures. He searches for insights in strategy marketing, financing, human factors and general operations in these resource-constrained business environments. He seeks to develop and share entrepreneurship education resources including a textbook co-authored with Richard Dorf entitled Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise (published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education).

	Kathleen Eisenhardt, Co-Director of STVP Kathleen Eisenhardt is Professor of Strategy and Organization at Stanford University. Professor Eisenhardt's interests center on strategy and organization in high velocity industries. She has worked extensively with a variety of firms, especially those in the computing, telecommunications and networking, software, biotech, and semiconductor industries. She is a co-author of the book, Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos (Harvard Business School Press, 1998), winner of the George R. Terry award for outstanding contribution to management thinking and named one of the top 10 business and investing books by Amazon.com for 1998. She has also published in a variety of academic and management journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Red Herring, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. Her research interests center on complexity and evolutionary theories with a focus on their application to strategy and organization. She is currently studying effective acquisition strategies among networking and Internet companies, entrepreneurship and corporate strategy in the New Economy.

	Chuck Eesley Chuck Eesley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. His research interests focus on strategy and technology entrepreneurship. In the broadest sense, he is interested in the "ideas sector" of the economy. His research seeks to uncover which individual attributes, strategies and institutional arrangements optimally drive the rate and direction of technology commercialization. He examines how entrepreneurs in developed and developing economy contexts commercialize R&D; intensive products, with a particular interest in who successfully innovates in new markets and the challenges of long R&D; cycle projects. He is the recipient of a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award in 2007 and the Best Student Paper award from the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in 2008 for his work on entrepreneurship in China. His research appears in Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy and the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. Prior to his Ph.D. at MIT Sloan, he worked at the Duke University Medical Center, publishing in medical journals and in textbooks on cognition in schizophrenia.

	Riitta Katila Riitta Katila is Associate Professor of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University where her research spans technology strategy and innovation. She examines how entrepreneurial firms develop technological capabilities to create new product innovation, currently focusing on the innovation search strategies of biotechnology, robotics, and medical device firms. The main goal of her research is to understand how successful high-technology firms innovate. Her work appears in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, and other outlets. Katila's symposium on Exploratory search received the Best Symposium Award from the Organization & Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. She was also the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award and the Best Dissertation Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, as well as a Best Dissertation Award recipient from Informs. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellow (2007-2010), and was selected as the Strategic Management Society's Emerging Scholar of the Year.

	Robert Sutton Robert I. Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, an active researcher and cofounder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and a cofounder and active member of the new “d.school,” a multi-disciplinary program that teaches and spreads “design thinking.” Sutton studies the links between managerial knowledge and organizational action, innovation, and organizational performance. He has published over 90 articles and chapters in scholarly and applied publications. He has also published seven books and edited volumes. Sutton is an IDEO Fellow, an Honorary PeopleSoft Fellow, and a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Teaching and Learning, a multi-year project that brings together researchers and administrators to understand why there is a lack of evidence-based practices in education and to develop effective strategies for connecting research and practice. Sutton has consulted for companies such as Clorox, Ernst & Young, Deloitte Consulting, Gap, HP, Brass Ring, IDEO, IBM, McDonald’s, McKinsey, People Magazine, Pepsi, Proctor & Gamble, Steelcase, and Xerox. He has also served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly publications, and as an editor for the Administrative Science Quarterly and Research in Organizational Behavior. Sutton’s honors include the award for the best paper published in the Academy of Management Journal, induction into the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame, the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching, the McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award, the McCullough Faculty Scholar Chair from Stanford, and selection by Business 2.0 as a leading “management guru” in 2002.

Affiliated Faculty

	Stephen R. Barley Co-Director, Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations (WTO) Professor, Management Science and Engineering https://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO

	Pamela J. Hinds Associate Professor in the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University

	Woody Powell Professor of Education and affiliated Professor of Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science, and Communication School of Education

	Amin Saberi Assistant Professor Management Science and Engineering

	James Sweeney Director, Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency Professor, Management Science and Engineering

	John Weyant Professor (Research) Management, Science and Engineering Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Institute for International Studies

Past Visiting Scholars

Anil Gupta
University of Maryland

Mathew Hayward
University of Colorado

Stefan Meisiek
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Alan Meyer
University of Oregon

Gerardo Okhuysen
University of Utah

Nicolaj Siggelkow
University of Pennsylvania

Patricia Thornton
Duke University

Poh Kam Wong
National University of Singapore