Karim R. Lakhani is a leading technology management and innovation expert and is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow at the Harvard Business School. The founder and co-director of the , he is best known for his pioneering scholarship on crowd-based innovation models, artificial intelligence, and the importance of data and analytics in the digital transformation of companies and industries. In particular, he is known for his research on the T-shirt company Threadless, and prize-based open innovation firms like InnoCentive and Topcoder. His most recent book, investigates how data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming industries and the nature of work, and how AI-centric organizations are redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. With examples such as Airbnb, Microsoft, and Amazon, the book explores how AI-driven processes are scalable, propel scope increase, enable companies to straddle industries, and drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions which provide a competitive edge. Lakhani is the principal investigator of the at the , and the faculty co-founder of the . He has partnered with NASA, Topcoder, and the Harvard Medical School to conduct field experiments on the design of crowd innovation programs. He serves on the Board of Directors of Mozilla and Local Motors.
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Articles
Lakhani is an author or co-author of on technology and innovation.
* Winsor, John, Jin Hyun Paik, Michael Tushman, and Karim R. Lakhani. Strategy & Leadership.
* Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani. PLoS ONE 14, no. 9.
* Richard, Elizabeth E., Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik, and Karim R. Lakhani. Strategy & Leadership 47, no. 3 : 19–26.
* Mak, Raymond H., Michael G. Endres, Jin Hyun Paik, Rinat A. Sergeev, Hugo Aerts, Christopher L. Williams, Karim R. Lakhani, and Eva C. Guinan. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.0159. JAMA Oncology 5, no. 5 : 654–661.
* Blasco, Andrea, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 160 : 214–229.
* Boudreau, Kevin, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg, and Karim R. Lakhani. Review of Economics and Statistics 99, no. 4 : 565–576.
* Hill, Andrew, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty, and Scott Jelinsky. GigaScience 6, no. 5.
* Felin, Teppo, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael L. Tushman. Special Issue on Organizing Crowds and Innovation. Strategic Organization 15, no. 2 : 119–140.
* Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani. Harvard Business Review 95, no. 1 : 118–127.
* Riedl, Christoph, Richard Zanibbi, Marti A. Hearst, Siyu Zhu, Michael Menietti, Jason Crusan, Ivan Metelsky, and Karim R. Lakhani. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition 19, no. 2 : 155–172.
* Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti. RAND Journal of Economics 47, no. 1 : 140–165.
* Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl. Management Science 62, no. 10.
* Jeppesen, Lars Bo, and Karim R. Lakhani. Organization Science 21: 1016–1033.
* Lakhani, Karim R., and Jill A. Panetta. Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2, 3: 97–112.
* Lakhani, Karim R., and Eric Von Hippel. Research policy 32.6 : 923-943.
* Von Krogh, Georg, Sebastian Spaeth, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Community, joining, and specialization in open source software innovation: a case study." Research Policy 32.7 : 1217-1241.
