Kathleen M. Eisenhardt is Professor of Strategy and Organization in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Stanford University. She has received degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Professor Eisenhardt's primary research interest is in the management of firms competition in a variety of topics including strategic decision making, top management teams, alliance formation, entrepreneurship, and agency theory, using both case study and hypothesis-testing methods. She is currently studying strategic alliance formation in the semiconductor industry, game theoretic competition across time frames. Her papers have appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and other outlets. For her work on fast decision making, she won the Pacific Telesis Foundation Award. She has also received the Whittemore Prize for her research on organizing global firms.
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