Research Faculty

Core Faculty

	Thomas Byers Co-Director of STVP Professor, Management Science & Engineering Tom Byers's 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. Byers also develops and share entrepreneurship education resources including a textbook co-authored with Richard Dorf and Andrew Nelson, entitled Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise. Full bio >>

	Kathleen Eisenhardt Co-Director of STVP Professor, Management Science & Engineering Kathleen Eisenhardt's research 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, winner of the George R. Terry award for outstanding contribution to management thinking. Full bio >>

	Riitta Katila Associate Professor, Management Science & Engineering Riitta Katila's 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. Full bio >>

	Chuck Eesley Assistant Professor, Management Science & Engineering Chuck Eesley's research interests focus on strategy and technology entrepreneurship. 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 intensive research and development products. Full bio >>

	Robert Sutton Professor, Management Science & Engineering Robert Sutton is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, co-founder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and a co-founder the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school), a multi-disciplinary program that teaches “design thinking.” Sutton studies the links between managerial knowledge and organizational action, innovation and organizational performance. He is also an acclaimed and prolific author. Full bio >>

Affiliated Faculty

	Stephen R. Barley Co-Director, Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations (WTO) Professor, Management Science & Engineering

	Pamela J. Hinds Associate Professor, Management Science & Engineering

	Woody Powell Professor, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science & Engineering, and Communication, by courtesy

	Amin Saberi Assistant Professor, Management Science & Engineering

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

	John Weyant Professor, Management Science & Engineering Senior Fellow, Institute for International Studies, by courtesy