Professor Kathleen M.

Eisenhardt
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt is Professor of Strategy and Organization at Stanford University and Research
Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Professor Eisenhardt’s interests center on high-
velocity industries and technology-based companies.

She has worked extensively with a variety of firms, especially those in the telecommunications and
networking, software, computing, biotech, Internet, and semiconductor industries. She is a co-author of
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 businesses and investing books by Amazon.com in 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 most recent research articles include Architectural
Innovation and Modular Corporate Forms (with D. Charles Galunic) in AMJ in December 2001 and
Integrating Knowledge in Groups: How Formal Interventions Enable Flexibility in OS in July 2002. Her
most recent HBR article, Strategy as Simple Rules, was published in January 2001. She is the first author
to be featured in HBR’s On Point collections.

Professor Eisenhardt’s research interests center on strategy and organization in uncertain, high-velocity
markets, with particular emphasis on complexity and evolutionary theories. She is currently studying the
effective acquisition of entrepreneurial firms, creation of synergies in multi-business corporations, and
the concept of boundaries in high-velocity markets.

For her on ideas on fast strategic decision making, Professor Eisenhardt won the Pacific Telesis
Foundation Award. She has also received the Whittemore Prize for her writing on organizing global firms
in rapidly changing markets, the Stern Award for her work on strategic alliance formation in
entrepreneurial firms, and the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution award for her
1995 article on fast product innovation. She has also received the Scholarly Contribution award from the
OMT division of the Academy of Management. Professor Eisenhardt also consults at senior levels on
strategy and organization for a variety of global corporations.

Eisenhardt has received several teaching honors, including being one of 8 professors named to the
Stanford Professorial Honor Roll (by student selection) and for teaching one of the Ten Best Courses at
Stanford (by student selection).

Professor Eisenhardt is a member of the Strategic Management Society and INFORMS, and has been
elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management. She serves on the editorial boards of Administrative
Science Quarterly and Strategic Management Journal. She is also a Fellow of the World Economic Forum
(Davos).

Eisenhard t received B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Brown University, cum laude and with honors). She
holds an M.S. in computer science. Her Ph.D. is from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
Eisenhardt, Kathleen M., Jean L. Kahwajy, and L.J. Bourgeois III, "How Teams Have a Good Fight",
Harvard Business Review, 1997.

Professor L. J. Bourgeois III

Professor L. J. Bourgeois III is an expert on strategy and post-merger integration. He has consulted for a
variety of North and Latin American, European, Asian, Australian, and African corporations on strategic
planning, strategy implementation and post-merger integration and has designed and conducted various
seminars in strategic thinking.

As Associate Dean, he represents the University Of Virginia Darden School Of Business to constituencies
around the world (alumni, corporations, partner schools, prospective students) and is responsible for
Darden's globalization strategies.

Prior to joining the Darden faculty in 1986, Bourgeois taught at the Stanford Business School. He
previously was employed as a financial analyst in the corporate planning department of Castle & Cooke
Foods and held several assignments in the firm's Latin American operations. He is fluent in Spanish.