Robert Eberhart
Associate Director of Research on Entrepreneurship and Society - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
My research focuses on the influence of institutional change on entrepreneurship, what drives institutional change, and the effect of those changes on the types of ventures that are founded and their performance. I also build on theories of institutions to discern how entrepreneurship is transforming society. Before my academic career, I spent 10 years in the semiconductor industry before I founded and ran a successful company in Tokyo. I make use of those experiences to inform my scholarship. Since earning my Ph.D. in 2014, I have published in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, and others. My academic work has won numerous awards from the Academy of Management, Responsible Research in Management, the Western Academy of Management, among others. I am on the editorial board of Organization Science, and the research committee of the OMT division of AOM. My articles have also appeared in academic books by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Springer Publications.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Lake Tahoe Conference: Reversing the Arrow - How Entrepreneurship Affects Society
August ,2021
RRBM 2020 Award Presentatiosn
July 2020
Academy of Management
Annual Conference
August 2021
MY LATEST RESEARCH NEWS
New Publication - November 2020
Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship amidst Discontinued Certifications
Robert N. Eberhart
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
Daniel Armanios
Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Organization Science, forthcoming
ABC News Interview
Should Facebook be regulated as a media company?
New Publication - Strategic Management Journal
"The Dark Side of Institutional Intermediaries: Junior Stock Exchanges and Entrepreneurship"
w/ C. Eesley
Interview at European Entrepreneurship Forum
New Publication - Strategy Science
"Institutions and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Interactive Influence of Misaligned Formal and Informal Institutions"
w/ B. Skousen, J. Cheng, and C. Eesley
Policy Presentation at Mitsubishi Research Center Symposium with M. Cusumano
I presented a perspective on how open innovation can work - or miss - their targets. Thanks to Shigeo Kagami for inviting me.
RESEARCH INFORMS POLICY
Research insights from institutional perspectives were incorporated into policy efforts through a bi-lateral commission with members appointed by the US State Department and METI


Sweden Royal Institute of Technology
My research is assisting the institute to revise it country's bankruptcy laws. The report was handed over to Mikael Damberg, Minister of Enterprise and Innovation, at the 17 October, 2017. The report, "Entreprenörskap i det 21 århundradet, SOU 2016:72 (Entrepreneurship in the 21st century)" may be downloaded at the government’s webpage:
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