SPRIE, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Knight Management Center
Stanford University
655 Knight Way
McClelland Building
Stanford, CA 94305-7298 USA

eberhart@stanford.edu
(650) 723-9044 (voice)
(650) 721-2198 (fax)

Research Interests
Comparative corporate governance in Asia and the US, theories of institutions, Japanese entrepreneurship and venture finance, Japanese corporate governance.

Robert Eberhart is the SPRIE Researcher at Stanford's Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) where he leads the SPRIE-Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship. His research focuses on comparative corporate governance of growth companies with special emphasis on Japan and the role of Japanese institutions in fostering entrepreneurship. Eberhart's papers include topics such as corporate governance, entrepreneurship in Japan, and institutional ideas of innovation. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the International Society for New Institutional Economics, the board of advisors to Japan's Global Entrepreneurship Week, and an advisor to Japan's Board of Director's Training Institute. He serves as an academic advisor to the American Chamber of Commerce's Task Force on New Growth Strategies and is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer in various programs at Stanford and in Japan. He presents seminars to diverse institutions such as the Japan Venture Capital Association, the U.S. Embassy in Japan, Stanford's U.S.-Asia Technology Management Center, the Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurs Society at Stanford, the Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo, and the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, giving academic presentations of his own research on Japanese corporate governance and entrepreneurship. Eberhart also lectures in classes on Japanese business and entrepreneurship at Stanford University and Berkeley.

Eberhart has received awards from the National Aerospace Manufacturers Accreditation Program, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, and has been recognized for work on the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab where he designed and built interferometer components for an exo-planet detection system. He remains an advisor to the Lick Observatory's public outreach programs. Eberhart received a master's degree in economics from the University of Michigan after undergraduate studies in finance at Michigan State University. He is pursuing doctoral studies at Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering.