2009
Harvard NASA Tournament Lab established at IQSS
2012
NASA Tournament Lab Now Called Crowd Innovation Lab
2017
Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard Established
2022
Integrated into the D^3 Institute at Harvard
2009–2012 The origins of LISH trace back to 2009, with the launch of the NASA Tournament Lab at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS). Founded under the leadership of Professor Karim R. Lakhani, the lab was commissioned to design and conduct competitions to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently and cost-effectively for NASA and other federal agencies.
2017: LISH was established as a university-wide research program focusing its research on three main areas: Crowdsourcing & Open Innovation, Data Science & AI Development, and the Science of Science. LISH Pioneers Field Experiments for Innovation.
2022: LISH was integrated into the Digital, Data, and Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard to explore the intersection of AI, leadership, and decision-making. Today, LISH is the largest laboratory withing the D^3 Institute and leads cutting-edge empirical research and statistical analysis on how firms use and organize around AI.