- 2009–2016 The origins of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (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, a specialist in innovation and crowdsourcing at Harvard Business School, 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: In 2017, the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) was established as a university-wide research program, led by faculty co-directors Karim Lakhani (Harvard Business School), Eva Guinan (Harvard Medical School), David Parkes (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), and Kyle Myers (Harvard Business School). LISH focused its research on three main areas: Crowdsourcing & Open Innovation, Data Science & AI Development, and the Science of Science.
- 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, the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (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.