Research Faculty
Core Faculty
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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). |
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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. |
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Pamela J. Hinds Pamela J. Hinds is Associate Professor in the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. She studies the effect of technology on groups. Prof. Hinds has conducted extensive research on the dynamics of geographically distributed work teams, particularly those spanning national boundaries. She explores issues of culture, language, shared identity, conflict, and the role of face-to-face meetings in promoting knowledge sharing and collaboration. She also conducts research on professional service robots in the work environment, examining how people make sense of them and how they affect work practices. |
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Riitta Katila Riitta Katila is Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Her research interests span the areas of strategic management and innovation. She examines how firms develop technological capabilities and create new innovations, currently focusing on the innovation search strategies of industrial robotics firms. The main goal of this research stream is to identify the types of innovation search approaches that successful high-technology firms use to create radical product innovations. Her work appears in Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal. Katila's symposium on Exploratory search received the Best Symposium Award from the Organization & Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. Her dissertation was a runner-up at the Organization Science/INFORMS Dissertation competition, and she was also the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management. |
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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
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Stephen R. Barley Co-Director, Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations (WTO) Professor, Management Science and Engineering http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO |
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Woody Powell Professor of Education and affiliated Professor of Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science, and Communication School of Education |
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Amin Saberi Assistant Professor Management Science and Engineering |
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James Sweeney Professor; Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution by courtesy Management Science and Engineering |
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Thomas A. Weber Assistant Professor Management Science and Engineering |
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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
Alan Meyer
University of Oregon
Stefan Meisiek
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Patricia Thornton
Duke University
Poh Kam Wong
National University of Singapore
