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April Burrage
Provostial Fellow, Management Science and Engineering
BioApril Burrage, Ph.D. is a Provostial Fellow in the Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford University. Her research focuses on differences in entrepreneurial opportunities and the economics of innovation and science. She examines how institutions shape entrepreneurial possibilities and innovation for emerging tech entrepreneurs. Currently, her work explores the impact of innovation policies on tech entrepreneurship and the motivations of STEM professionals to commercialize their ideas. Supported by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation, Dr. Burrage's research has been featured in outlets such as Research Policy, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and Brookings Institution. Her research seeks to uncover the institutional factors that drive entrepreneurship and innovation, with the goal of informing policies and practices that promote a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem. Dr. Burrage earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, her M.A. in Economics from Roosevelt University, and her B.S. in Marketing from North Carolina A&T State University.
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Thomas Byers
Entrepreneurship Professor in the School of Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsApplied ethics, responsible innovation, and global entrepreneurship education (see http://peak.stanford.edu).
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Stivi Canka
Masters Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2026
BioI am a master's student in Management Science & Engineering, working on optimization and machine learning applied to the infrastructure that makes the world run, spanning manufacturing, logistics, and connectivity.
My background is in economics and mathematics, followed by work in market risk and in technology risk consulting. Across both, the recurring pattern was the same: most of the world is a set of large, poorly specified optimization problems, and comparatively few of them have been solved. At Stanford I am focused on the computational and statistical tools for attacking these problems at scale, with a particular interest in operations problems in emerging markets.
Outside my coursework, I founded Albanian Trailblazers, a mentorship network connecting Albanian students from disadvantaged backgrounds with mentors across more than twenty countries. -
Saikat Chaudhuri
Professor (Teaching) of Management Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly Interests- Corporate innovation, startup entrepreneurship, and company growth strategies
- AI / technological / digital disruption and transformation
- Conducting high-tech mergers and acquisitions
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Lori Cottle
Director of Student and Academic Services, Management Science and Engineering
Current Role at StanfordDirector of Student and Academic Services in the Department of Management Science and Engineering
Manages and directs student and academic services for 500 bachelor, master, and doctoral students, including degree progress, graduate student funding, graduate admission, course scheduling, commencement, graduate student orientation, and website content for admission and academics. Oversees graduate and undergraduate student policy compliance and procedures. Liaison between the students and the faculty, between the department and the School of Engineering, and between the department and central offices at Stanford. -
Nirjhar Das
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2026
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests are in computational economics and social choice, learning theory, and algorithms in general. I also enjoy high dimensional probability and its applications. With a focus on theoretical models and provable algorithms, I want to understand interaction of artificial intelligence (AI) and society and the nuances therein.
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Charles (Chuck) Eesley
Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI study how institutions shape technology-based entrepreneurship. My research identifies the institutional environments that encourage the founding of high-growth, engineering-driven firms, and shows that effective institutional change influences who starts firms and whether they succeed — not just how many firms are started. My recent work extends this agenda to AI: how AI systems function as new institutional actors shaping entrepreneurial opportunity, and how AI can be used as a research tool
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Kathleen Eisenhardt
Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D. Professor in the School of Engineering, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTheoretical approaches: Cognition, complexity, learning, and organizational theories
Methods: Multi-case Theory Building as well as machine learning, simulation, and econometrics
Recent research: Business model design, strategy as "simple rules" heuristics, strategic interaction in novel markets and ecosystems, strategy in marketplaces, communities v. firm organizational forms
