I am an Associate Professor at the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Sweden. For more than ten years, I have researched and lectured on social networks and their relationship with strategy and performance. In November 2008, I was awarded the "Researcher of the Year - 2008" Award from SSE for my research in this area.
Prior to completing my doctoral thesis on knowledge networking at the Institute of International Business at SSE, I worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in Stockholm. Additionally, I hold a B.A. in Economics with distinction from Stanford University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Click here for a presentation of my interests and here for a video clip where I talk about my teaching and lecturing in the Executive MBA program (IFL) at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Here is my presentation, "Leveraging Networks for Tangible Results", as well as my presentation "Fad or Future? What do Second Life and Other Virtual Worlds Have to Offer".
Currently, I am working in several areas within virtual worlds, such as Second Life. For example, I am working with Brian Donnellan and Johan Gorecki at the National University of Ireland - Galway on a project with IBM for IRCSET (the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology) in which we are developing a "virtual innovation system". In addition, I am experimenting with Steve Mahaley, the Director of Learning Technology at Duke CE, with the use of virtual worlds in business education. Here is our presentation: "Stepping into the Internet: Innovating Business Education with Second Life".
Our efforts in Second LIfe have been written up in the Financial Times:
1) Students take a leap into the virtual world
2) A Second Life for classrooms with vision
Some colleagues and I are Guest Editors for a special issue on virtual worlds for MIS Quarterly. Here is the Call for Papers.
Here is my avatar, Karinda Rhode, together with Ace Carson (aka Steve Mahaley) from Duke CE in the 3D version of van Gogh's Starry Night.
In November 2008, I won the "Researcher of the Year - 2008" Award at the Stockholm School of Economics. Here is Karinda making a presentation to the Corporate Partners at the Annual Fundraising Event in connection with the award ceremony.
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