Kathleen Marie Eisenhardt (born 1947) is the Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D.

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and co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University. She is also a corresponding

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of the

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, having been elected in 2016. In 2012 she was the recipient of the

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Selected publications

*Brown, Shona L. and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, ''Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos''.

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, 1998. (winner, George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management). *Sull, Donald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, ''Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World''. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.

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Living people American women academics Stanford University faculty Brown University School of Engineering alumni Stanford University alumni 1947 births Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy 21st-century American women {{US-academic-bio-stub