Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Kathleen Marie Eisenhardt (born 1947) is the Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D. Professor and co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University.^[1] She is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, having been elected in 2016.^[2] In 2012 she was the recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.^[3]

Selected publications

• Brown, Shona L. and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos. Harvard Business School Press, 1998. (winner, George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management).
• Eisenhardt, Kathleen M. (1989). "Building Theories from Case Study Research". The Academy of Management Review. 14 (4): 532. doi:10.2307/258557.
• Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.; Graebner, Melissa E. (2007). "Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges". Academy of Management Journal. 50 (1): 25–32. doi:10.5465/amj.2007.24160888. ISSN 0001-4273.
• Eisenhardt, Kathleen M (2021). "What is the Eisenhardt Method, really?". Strategic Organization. 19 (1): 147–160. doi:10.1177/1476127020982866. ISSN 1476-1270.
• Sull, Donald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
• Riitta Katila, Henning Piezunka, Philipp Reineke, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, 2022: Big Fish versus Big Pond? Entrepreneurs, Established Firms, and Antecedents of Tie Formation. AMJ, 65, 427–452, https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2018.1197