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NGUYEN

When I think about my DCR times, I remem- I remember having the luxury of not having
ber one hot afternoon at the Viadrina during first to finish the work for a research labo- DISSERTATION TOPIC
the first semester in which my cohort and ratory before I could work on research that The Influence of Relational
I were watching the Silence of the lambs with really interested me, and still always having Models on Learning from
Mistakes and Failures in Teams
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, trying to open access to our professors and their
read the first interactions between their advice on how to handle difficulties encoun- PERIOD OF STAY
two characters right, a test Professor Koch tered when I was trying to figure out in 04/2014 – 03/2017
would give to his students to test their which direction I should pursue my research, CURRENT POSITION
observational skills. what statistical analysis tool to apply to the Business Intelligence
results I obtained, or simply how to organize Consultant, MACH AG
When I think about my DCR times, I remem- the rest of my doctoral time.
ber having serious doubts about my story-
telling abilities while I was trying to convey I remember watching through the window
a story to my cohort and Professor Söllner the tram in Frankfurt (Oder) drop off Bach-
in a remote manor in Brandenburg where elor students of the Viadrina going to a late
even the regional train didn’t bother to stop. party and thinking that they had no idea who
Eisenhardt is and what the heck microfoun-
When I think about my DCR times, I remem- dations of dynamic capabilities are.
ber the outrageously strong A/C not helping
to bring down the stress underlying my I remember discovering something new
thrill one minute before I got to present my every day and stressing about it having
results in front of colleagues coming from potentially the power to weaken my argu-
all over the world to attend the AOM Annual ments. But I don’t remember having second
Meeting in Anaheim, CA. thoughts from the first day on or having
doubts about the program helping me grow
I remember silently thanking the Dieter as a person.
Schwarz Foundation in my head as I was
distributing the monetary compensations to I joined the Dynamic Capabilities and
the participants of my experiment without Relationships program in April 2014 and
which I wouldn’t have been able to demon- I remember every single moment. Good
strate that a purely economic approach to ones, bad ones, fulfilling ones and challeng-
handle an error is perhaps not the optimal ing ones alike.
way to prevent this error from reoccurring
within teams.
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