During graduate school heinterned at Intel (studying collaborative software) and at Motorola (studyingknowledge management). After completing his dissertation and postdoctoraltraining at Carnegie Mellon University, he spent three years at the MIT SloanSchool of Management as an assistant professor, where he received an NSF EarlyCareer Award for his research on innovation in geographically dispersed teamsand networks. His subsequent research focused on virtual teams in corporationsas well as collaboration in science, and his publications have appeared injournals ranging from management science to research policy to MIS Quarterly. He is also faculty director for the Center forTechnology, Entertainment, and Media (CTEM) at Fuqua, where he is initiating newresearch on technological disruption in knowledge-based firms.