personnel profile
 Tom Byers |
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Research Statement
Tom Byers is a professor at Stanford University where he focuses on technology entrepreneurship education. He is founder and a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which serves as the entrepreneurship center for the engineering school. STVP includes the Mayfield Fellows work/study program, Entrepreneurship Corner website of videos and podcasts, and a set of global Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education conferences for educators. Tom is co-author of a popular textbook called "Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise" published by McGraw-Hill. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford. Tom is also a faculty director of the TechAmerica/Stanford Executive Institute, a general management program for technology executives.
Tom currently serves on the governing boards of BioFuelBox, Flywheel Ventures, and MyThings. In addition, he serves on two advisory councils of the World Economic Forum regarding entrepreneurship, American Society for Engineering Education's Entrepreneurship Division, Harvard Business School's California Research Center, UC Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) for disadvantaged youth. Before joining Stanford, Tom worked in Silicon Valley for over a decade including executive vice president and general manager of Symantec Corporation during its early years. Tom started his professional career at Accenture.
For his efforts at Stanford, Tom holds endowed chairs in both engineering entrepreneurship and one known as the McCoy University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Tom has received Stanford's Gores Award for excellence in teaching (the university's highest award) and its Tau Beta Pi Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching (the engineering school's highest award). In 2009, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) awarded Tom its Gordon Prize, which is the profession's highest honor recognizing innovation in engineering and technology education.
He is also the recipient of several other national teaching awards: the Olympus Innovation Award from the NCIIA, the ASEE Kauffman Award for excellence in engineering and technology entrepreneurship education, the USASBE Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year Award, the Academy of Management's Innovation in Entrepreneurship Teaching Award, and the Leavey Award for excellence in private enterprise education. Earlier, STVP was named the NASDAQ Entrepreneurship Center of the Year and Tom was named Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year in Ernst & Young's competition.
Tom holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He also earned a PhD in Business Administration (Management Science) at UC Berkeley.
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| Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner |
| Roundtables on Entrepreneurship Education (REE) |
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| Degree | Discipline | Year | School |
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| PhD | 1982 | UC Berkeley | |
| MBA | 1980 | UC Berkeley | |
| BS | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research | 1975 | UC Berkeley |
| Publication Title | Author(s)/Speaker(s) | Open Document |
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| Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise (Second Edition) | Richard C. Dorf; Thomas H. Byers | |
| Organizational Modularity and Intra-University Relationships Between Entrepreneurship Education and | Gary Libecap | |
| Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise (First Edition) | Richard C. Dorf; Thomas H. Byers | |
| The Impact of a Research University in Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurship in Alumni and Faculty | Byers, Keeley, Leone, and Parker | |
| The Characteristics of Entrepreneurs,” Section 1.1, The Handbook of Technology Management | Byers; Sutton; Kist | |
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| Course Number | Course Title | Link |
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| Engineering 145 | Technology Entrepreneurship | http://e145.stanford.edu |
| Engineering 140 | Leadership of Technology Ventures | http://www.stanford.edu/class/e140/ |
| MS&E 472 | Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar | http://etl.stanford.edu |
| MS&E 276 | Entrepreneurial Management | |
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Academic Honors & Awards
- 2002-present McCoy University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
- 2009 Gordon Prize, National Academy of Engineering
- 2007 Olympus Innovation Award, NCIIA
- 2005 Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year Award, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
- 2005 Gores Award at Stanford for excellence in teaching (the university's highest award)
- 2005 Kauffman Award for excellence in engineering and technology entrepreneurship education, American Society of Engineering Education
- 2002 Tau Beta Pi Award at Stanford for excellence in undergraduate teaching
- 1998 Innovation in Pedagogy Award, Academy of Management