Sunday, October 22, 2006

Lausanne Marathon

I just came back from finishing my seventh Marathon. Today was Lausanne Marathon along the Geneva Lake. I finished in 3:23min and was quite happy with the time since I did not prepare as expected!

While running, I already planned my next IRONMAN which will be either in Germany or in Switzerland next summer. Let's see how it goes!

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

My Research Progress

It's been a while that I have been posting something on this blog. However, things have been really busy. I mostly worked on the first and the second paper of my disseration. Horray, the first one was sent out to AMR (Academy of Management Review) just a couple of days ago, which is great!! It addresses the question of how knowledge might become integrated into a firm's knowledge base depending on its intrafirm social network structured. I am quite excited what we'll get out of it!

Right now I am trying to finalize the first final draft (:-)) of my second paper, which is on information sharing roles in communities of users. More specifically I am looking at the newschoolers.com community of freestyle ski enthusisasts. Very exciting too!! We also had a talk today from Prof. Dr. Christian Lüthje, from the University of Bern, who has been talking about the future of the user innovation field. We had a good discussion and I got some good ideas for my next (academic) projects.

There so many more things to tell! I also finalized the set-up of my dissertaion committee. There will be David Lazer, professor at the Kennedy School of Government, and Lee Fleming, professor at the Harvard Business School, who will be helping me to graduate! In addition, my advisor Chris Tucci will be on the committee.

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