Leading-edge research on entrepreneurial policy, business strategy and innovation in technology-driven markets.
The research of STVP faculty, students and alumni helps deepen our understanding of entrepreneurial policy, business strategy and innovation in technology-driven markets. Our work combines theoretical ideas with field-based studies on the real-world challenges and opportunities presented to technology firms in various global contexts with distinct social norms and policy interventions. Our insights are strengthened both by the multi-disciplinary expertise in Stanford’s School of Engineering and our proximity to Silicon Valley. STVP projects examine a range of topics, such as:
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STVP’s doctoral program prepares students to become leading academic experts on technology entrepreneurship, both in terms of policy (comparative contexts and external interventions) and practice (innovation and business strategy). Our doctoral students produce research and sharpen both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies with the mentorship of leading-edge faculty.
Applications for the Autumn 2021 PhD cohort are now closed. Applications for the Autumn 2022 cohort will open late September, 2021. Learn more about the program.
Applications must be submitted via STVP’s home department, Management Science & Engineering (MS&E) and by selecting one of STVP’s research specialties as an academic interest.
Entrepreneurial Policy
Our PhD graduates become leading academics and hold positions at Carnegie Mellon, Harvard University, INSEAD, Northwestern University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and many more.
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation: What is the Role of the State in Entrepreneurship and Venture Performance?
Area Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Phillip Hettleman Distinguished Scholar, University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Learning from Heterogeneous Experience: The internationalization of entrepreneurial firms
Corporate Strategy, Electronic Arts
Dissertation: User Community Innovation: Implications for Firm Strategy, Organizing and Performance
Member of Corporate Boards; Former Google Senior VP
Dissertation: A Multiple Horizon Strategy for Managing Time in High Technology Environments: The Case of Multiple Product Development Projects
Vice President of Program & Portfolio Management, Cognoa
Dissertation: Strategy as Competitive Moves: Extending Competitive Dynamics Research to New Markets and New Moves
Associate Professor of Management, University of Washington
Dissertation: The Impact of Funding Sources on Innovation in New Firms
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, INSEAD
Dissertation: Collaborative Innovation, Organizational Symbiosis, and the Embeddedness of Strategy
Professor, IESE
Dissertation: Leveraging Social Networks: Early Stage Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
Associate Director, Research on Entrepreneurship and Society, Stanford University
Dissertation: Institutional Change and Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor of Strategy, INSEAD
Dissertation: Cognitive Flexibility: The Adaptive Reality of Concrete Organization Change
Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Aviva Chair in Leadership, INSEAD
Dissertation: The Evolution of Intracorporate Domains: divisional charter losses in high-technology multidivisional corporations
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Dissertation: Decoding the CEO-Board Relationship: Strategic Decision Making and Monitoring in Entrepreneurial Firms
Associate Professor, Segal Design Institute Northwestern
Dissertation: Devotion to an Innovation Process: The Case Study in Human Centered Design
Associate Professor, Boston University
Dissertation: The Emergence of a New Organizational Field — Labels, Meaning and Emotion in Nanotechnology
Professor, University of Illinois
Dissertation: Decision-Making, Negotiation and Integration Issues in Acquisitions of High-Tech Start-ups
Associate Professor, University of Washington
Dissertation: The Origin of the Network Positions of New Organizations — How Entrepreneurs Raise Funds
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation: Firm Strategy in Nascent Ecosystems
Professor & Founding Director of Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of California — Davis
Dissertation: The Theory and Practice of Knowledge Brokering: case studies of continuous innovation
Chairman & Founder, Qalaa Holdings
Dissertation: The Evolution of Joint Development Alliances
Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University
Dissertation: Linkages Between Competitive Product Moves and Organizational Capabilities in Rapidly-Changing Environments
Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy, INSEAD
Dissertation: Online Sellers’ Offline Environments — Implications for Platform Strategy
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Engineering
Dissertation: Discovering Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Individual, Team and Organizational Capabilities
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Dissertation: Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses in an Emerging Economy
Associate Professor, University of Alabama
Dissertation: Where are All the Synergies?: The Co-evolution of Cross-business Synergies in the New Economy
Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Dissertation: Competition and Strategic Interaction in New Markets
Associate Professor and Area Chair of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD
Dissertation: Antecedents of Boundary Disagreement in Distributed and Collocated Teams
Head of School, Oxbridge Academy
Dissertation: Tweaking the Iconic: The Management of Continuity-Constrained Resources
Associate Professor and Randall C. Pape Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Oregon
Dissertation: Institutional Convergence and the Diffusion of University — Versus Firm-Origin Technologies
Professor and Associate Dean, University of California — Irvine
Dissertation: Creating Opportunities for Change: how formal problem solving interventions work
Feld Family Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Boston University
Dissertation: The Co-evolution of the Open Source Community and Emerging Business Models
Assistant Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: From opportunity to strategy: How executives create a system of interdependent strategic decisions
Professor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Oxford University
Dissertation: Start-ups in nascent markets: Building a strong alliance portfolio from a low-power position
Assistant Professor, INSEAD
Dissertation: Competing in Intermediated Markets
Partner, AF Ventures, AFWERX
Dissertation: Essays on Public Funding for Private Innovation
Founder & Chairman, Scanmarker
Dissertation: Global Versus Locally Focused Activities in Organizations
Senior Associate, McKinsey & Company
Dissertation: The overriding power of ought nots: Evidence from microfinance for why some types of hybrid organizations fail to achieve comprehensive performance
Dean of F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College
Dissertation: Newcomers, Oldtimers, and Relative Tenure: Organizational Assimilation as an Outcome of Social Comparison
Chief Operating Officer, Guideline Technologies
Dissertation: Nascent technology ventures and corporate venture funding
Dean, Professor, and Chair of Social Entrepreneurship, Universidade Católica, Lisbon
Dissertation: The Management of Organizational Boundaries in High-Tech Industries
Associate Professor, Babson College
Dissertation: Managing novel product concepts: A process theory
Assistant Professor, University College London
Dissertation: Rivalry and Innovation
Data Scientist, Instagram
Dissertation: Developing High-Performing Business Models
Administrative Science Quarterly
AbstractView photos from the 2019 West Coast Research Symposium, hosted by STVP at Stanford University, that brought together more than 90 of the world’s leading management researchers.
