Shorenstein APARC
Encina Hall E301
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

eberhart@stanford.edu
(650) 725-0121 (voice)
(650) 723-6530 (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 a STAJE Fellow at Stanford's Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship where he leads the 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.  From 1999 - 2007, he founded and served as CEO of WineInStyle, a venture capital-funded start-up Japanese company that developed a solution to radically shorten the supply chain for wine distribution in that country. 

Mr. 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.  He is a member of the American Economic Association, and is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer in various programs at Stanford and Japan including; SPRIE's "Beyond Borders: Global Entrepreneurship" event.  He presented several seminars in Stanford's US-Asia Technology Management Center, presented lectures for ASES, the Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, and seminars of his own research on Japanese corporate governance.

Mr. Eberhart is also a partner in a San Francisco based private investment firm, Actium Ventures, LLC.

Mr. Eberhart received awards from; The National Aerospace Manufacturers Accreditation Program, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, and was recognized for work on the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab were he designed and built interferometer components for an exo-planet detection system.  He remains an adviser to the Lick Observatory's public outreach programs.  He is a private pilot and resides in Palo Alto.