Working Paper
Misha Teplitskiy, Hardeep Ranu, Gary Gray, Michael Menietti, Eva Guinan, and Karim Lakhani. Working Paper. “Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review.” HBS Working Paper Series. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Jana Gallus, Olivia S. Jung, and Karim R. Lakhani. Working Paper. “Managerial Recognition as an Incentive for Innovation Platform Engagement: A Field Experiment and Interview Study at NASA.” HBS Working Paper Series. Publisher’s Version 20-059.pdf
Forthcoming
Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. Forthcoming. “Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?” Strategic Management Journal. Publisher’s Version Engineering_serendipity.pdf
2024
Grennan, M., Myers, K. R., Swanson, A., & Chatterji, A. 2024. “No Free Lunch? Welfare Analysis of Firms Selling Through Expert Intermediaries.” The Review of Economic Studies. Publisher’s Version
2023
Olivia S Jung, Fahima Begum, Andrea Dorbu, Sara J Singer, and Patricia Satterstrom. 7/17/2023. “Ideas from the Frontline: Improvement Opportunities in Federally Qualified Health Centers.” Journal of General Internal Medicine. Publisher’s Version ideas_frontline_fqhcs.pdf
Steven Randazzo, Jin H Paik, and Yael Grushka-Cockayne. 2023. “Commonwealth Bank: Amplifying Customer Centricity with AI.” Management and Business Review, 3, 1&2, Pp. 140-143. Publisher’s Version mbr_ai-customer-engagement-issue.pdf
2022
Ademir Vrolijk and Zoe Szajnfarber. 12/20/2022. “The Opportunists in Innovation Contests Understanding Whom to Attract and How to Attract Them.” Research-Technology Management, 66, 1, Pp. 30-40. Publisher’s Version
Milena Tsvetkova, Sebastian Müller, Oana Vuculescu, Haylee Ham, and Rinat A Sergeev. 11/11/2022. “Relative Feedback Increases Disparities in Effort and Performance in Crowdsourcing Contests: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment on Topcoder.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6, CSW2, Pp. 1-27. Publisher’s Version
Misha Teplitskiy, Eamon Duede, Michael Menietti, and Karim R. Lakhani. 5/2022. “How status of research papers affects the way they are read and cited”. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Frank Nagle, James Dana, Jennifer Hoffman, Steven Randazzo, and Yanuo Zhou. 3/2/2022. Census II of Free and Open Source Software — Application Libraries. The Linux Foundation. Harvard Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) and Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Publisher’s Version lfresearch_harvard_census_ii_1.pdf
Jaehan Cho, Timothy DeStefano, Hanhin Kim, Inchul Kim, and Jin Hyun Paik. 2/19/2022. “What’s driving the diffusion of next-generation digital technologies?” Technovation. Publisher’s Version Abstract
2021
Karim R. Lakhani, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Jin H. Paik, and Steven Randazzo. 10/2021. “Customer-Centric Design with Artificial Intelligence: Commonwealth Bank”. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Iavor Bojinov, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Jacqueline N. Lane. 5/2021. “Virtual Watercoolers: A Field Experiment on Virtual Synchronous Interactions and Performance of Organizational Newcomers.” SSRN, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper , Pp. 21-125. Publisher’s Version SSRN Virtual Watercoolers: A Field Experiment on Virtual Synchronous Interactions and Performance of Organizational Newcomers
Andrea Blasco, Ted Natoli, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Steven Randazzo, Jin Paik, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Aravind Subramaniam. 4/6/2021. “Improving Deconvolution Methods in Biology through Open Innovation Competitions: An Application to the Connectivity Map.” Bioinformatics. Publisher’s Version
Henry Eyring, Patrick J. Ferguson, and Sebastian Koppers. 3/30/2021. “Less Information, More Comparison, and Better Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment.” Journal of Accounting Research , 59, 2, Pp. 657-711. Publisher’s Version eyring_et_al_2021.pdf
Philip Brookins, Dmitry Ryvkin, and Andrew Smyth. 3/8/2021. “Indefinitely repeated contests: An experimental study.” Experimental Economics . Publisher’s Version Brookins – Indefinitely Repeated Contests
Philip Brookins and Paan Jindapon. 2/20/2021. “Risk preference heterogeneity in group contests.” Journal of Mathematical Economics. Publisher’s Version Brookins – Risk Preference Heterogeneity
2020
Hannah Mayer. 7/2020. “AI in Enterprise: AI Product Management.” Edited by Jin H. Paik, Jenny Hoffman, and Steven Randazzo. AI in Enterprise – AI Product Management (P Skomoroch).pdf
Gerard George, Karim R. Lakhani, and Phanish Puranam. 12/2020. “What Has Changed? The Impact of COVID Pandemic on the Technology and Innovation Management Research Agenda.” Journal of Management Studies, 57, 8, Pp. 1754-1758. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis, and Jin Hyun Paik. 10/5/2020. “OpenIDEO (B)”. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Hannah Mayer. 10/2020. “Data Science is the New Accounting.” Edited by Jin H. Paik and Jenny Hoffman. AI in Entreprise – Data is the New Accounting (R Magoulas)
Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer, and Kerry Herman. 9/15/2020. “Moderna (A)”. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Hannah Mayer. 9/2020. “AI in Enterprise: In Tech We Trust.. Maybe Too Much?” Edited by Jin H. Paik and Jenny Hoffman. AI in Enterprise – In Tech We Trust – Maybe Too Much (L Sweeney)
Hannah Mayer, Jin Hyun Paik, Timothy DeStefano, and Jenny Hoffman. 8/14/2020. “From Craft to Commodity: The Evolution of AI in Pharma and Beyond”. AI in Enterprise – From Craft to Commodity (R Olfati-Saber).pdf
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ryan T. Allen, and Michael G. Endres. 8/9/2020. “Machine learning for pattern discovery in management research.” Strategic Management Journal. Publisher’s Version
Hannah Mayer, Jin H. Paik, Timothy DeStefano, and Jenny Hoffman. 8/2020. “From Craft to Commodity: The Evolution of AI in Pharma and Beyond”. AI in Enterprise – From Craft to Commodity (R Olfati-Saber).pdf
Anita Eisenstadt, Meghan Ange-Stark, and Gail Cohen. 8/2020. “The Role of Inducement Prizes.” National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Kyle R. Myers, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Jerry G. Thursby, Marie C. Thursby, Peter Schiffer, Joseph T. Walsh, Karim R. Lakhani, and Dashun Wang. 7/15/2020. “Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists.” Nature Human Behavior. Publisher’s Version
Olivia S. Jung, Andrea Blasco, and Karim R. Lakhani. 7/9/2020. “Innovation contest: Effect of perceived support for learning on participation.” Health Care Management Review, 45, 3, Pp. 255-266. Publisher’s Version
Michael G. Endres, Florian Hillen, Marios Salloumis, Ahmad R. Sedaghat, Stefan M., Olivia Quatela, Henning Hanken, Ralf Smeets, Benedicta Beck-Broichsitter, Carsten Rendenback, Karim R. Lakhani, Max Heiland, and Robert Gaudin. 6/24/2020. “Development of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Periapical Disease Detection in Dental Radiographs.” Diagnostics, 10, 6, Pp. 430. Publisher’s Version
Kyle R. Myers, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Jerry G. Thursby, Marie C. Thursby, Peter E. Schiffer, Joseph T. Walsh, Karim R. Lakhani, and Dashun Wang. 6/8/2020. “Quantifying the Immediate Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists.” SSRN. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Jin H. Paik, Steven Randazzo, and Jenny Hoffman. 6/2020. “AI in the Enterprise: How Do I Get Started?”. AI in Enterprise – How Do I Get Started (R May).pdf
Luke Boosey, Philip Brookins, and Dmitry Ryvkin. 5/13/2020. “Information Disclosure in Contests with Endogenous Entry: An Experiment.” Management Science. Publisher’s Version
Timothy DeStefano, Richard Kneller, and Jonathan Timmis. 5/6/2020. “Cloud computing and firm growth.” VOX. Publisher’s Version
Roberto Verganti, Luca Vendraminelli, and Marco Iansiti. 3/19/2020. “Innovation and Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. Publisher’s Version
Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani. 3/3/2020. “From Disruption to Collision: The New Competitive Dynamics.” MIT Sloan Management Review.Abstract
Jin Paik, Martin Schöll, Rinat Sergeev, Steven Randazzo, and Karim R. Lakhani. 2/26/2020. “Innovation Contests for High-Tech Procurement.” Research-Technology Management, 63:2, 36-45. Publisher’s Version
Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jennifer L. Hoffman, Jin Hyun Paik, and Nina Cohodes. 1/13/2020. Freelancer, Ltd.. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School.Abstract
Karim R. Lakhani, Hong Luo, and Laura Katsnelson. 1/2020. Market for Judgement: Creative Destruction Lab. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School.
Jerry Thursby, Marie Thursby, Karim R. Lakhani, Kyle R. Myers, Nina Cohodes, Sarah Bratt, Dennis Byrski, Johanna Cohoon, and Maria Roche. 2020. “Scientific Production: An Exploration into Organization, Resource Allocation, and Funding.” Harvard Business School Working Paper. Publisher’s Version
2019
Peter Barrett and Karim R. Lakhani. 10/29/2019. Kymera Therapeutics: Building a Biotech Execution Plan. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Feng Zhu, Sacha L. Schmidt, Karim R. Lakhani, and Sebastian Koppers. 10/24/2019. TSG Hoffenheim: Football in the Age of Analytics (B). Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Tarun Khanna, Karim Lakhani, Shubhangi Bhadada, Nabil Khan, Saba Dave, Rasim Alam, and Meena Hewett. 10/2019. “Crowdsourcing Memories: Mixed Methods Research by Cultural Insiders-Epistemological Outsiders.” Academy of Management Perspectives. Publisher’s Version
John Winsor, Jin Paik, Michael Tushman, and Karim Lakhani. 10/2019. “Overcoming cultural resistance to open source innovation.” Strategy & Leadership, 47, 6, Pp. 28-33. Publisher’s Version 10-1108_sl-08-2019-011441.pdf
Peter Barrett, Karim R. Lakhani, and Julia Kelley. 9/20/2019. Nimbus Therapeutics. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Karim R. Lakhani, Kerry Herman, and Julia Kelley. 9/16/2019. Obsidian: Product or Platform?. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Karim R. Lakhani. 9/11/2019. 2U: Higher Education Rewired. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School.
Andrea Blasco, 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. 9/2019. “Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions.” PLOS One, 14, 9. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Peter Barrett, Karim R. Lakhani, Julia Kelley, and Kelly Herman. 8/28/2019. Synthetic Biology Investment Opportunity. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Elizabeth E. Richard, Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin H. Paik, and Karim R. Lakhani. 4/25/2019. “Sustaining open innovation through a “Center of Excellence”.” Strategy & Leadership. Publisher’s Version
Raymond H. Mak, Michael G. Endres, Jin H. Paik, Rinat A. Sergeev, Hugo Aerts, Christopher L. Williams, Karim R. Lakhani, and Eva C. Guinan. 4/18/2019. “Use of Crowd Innovation to Develop an Artificial Intelligence–Based Solution for Radiation Therapy Targeting.” JAMA Oncology, 5, 5, Pp. 654-661. Publisher’s Version
Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti. 4/2019. “Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 160, Pp. 214-229. Publisher’s Version Incentives_for_Public_Goods_Inside_Orgs.pdf
Karim R. Lakhani, Robert D. Austin, and Yumi Yi. 1/10/2019. Data.gov. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin H. Paik, and Steven Randazzo. 2019. Kangatech. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version Abstract
2018
Karim R. Lakhani, Andrea Blasco, and Olivia S. Jung. 2018. “Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation .” Health Care Management Review.Abstract
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Michael Tushman, and Karim R. Lakhani. 2018. “A Study of NASA Scientists Shows How to Overcome Barriers to Open Innovation.” Harvard Business Review. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Michael Menietti, M.P. Recalde, and L. Vesterlund. 2018. “Charitable Giving in the Laboratory: Advantages of the Piecewise Linear Public Good Game.” In The Economics of Philanthropy: Donations and Fundraising, edited by Mirco Tonin and Kimberley Scharf. MIT Press. Publisher’s Version
Luke Boosey, Philip Brookins, and Dmitry Ryvkin. 2018. “Contests between groups of unknown size.” Games and Economic Behavior. Publisher’s Version
Herman B. Leonard, Mitchell B. Weiss, Jin H. Paik, and Kerry Herman. 2018. SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Philip Brookins, John P. Lightle, and Dmitry Ryvkin. 2018. “Sorting and communication in weak-link group contests.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 152, Pp. 64-80. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani and Teppo Felin. 2018. “What Problems Will You Solve with Blockchain? Before Jumping on the Bandwagon, Companies Need to Carefully Consider how Ledger Technologies Fit into their Overall Strategy.” MIT Sloan Management Review, 60, 1. Publisher’s Version
2017
Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani. 2017. “Managing Our Hub Economy: Strategy, Ethics, and Network Competition in the Age of Digital Superpowers.” Harvard Business Review, 95, 5, Pp. 84-92. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Andrew Hill, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty, and Scott Jelinsky. 2017. “Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis.” GigaScience, 6, 5. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani. 2017. “The Truth about Blockchain.” Harvard Business Review, 95, 1, Pp. 118-127. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Tony Hollenberg, and Karim R. Lakhani. 2017. “A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 99, 4, Pp. 565-576. Publisher’s Version Field_Experiment_on_Search_Costs.pdf
Teppo Felin, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael L. Tushman. 2017. “Firms, Crowds, and Innovation.” Strategic Organization, 15:2, Special Issue on Organizing Crowds and Innovation, Pp. 119-140. Publisher’s Version Firms_crowds_and_innovation.pdf
Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco, and Karim R. Lakhani. 2017. “Perceived Organizational Support For Learning and Contribution to Improvement by Frontline Staff.” Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017, 1. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Andrew Hill, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Iain Kilty, and Scott Jelinsky. 2017. “Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis.” GigaScience, 6, 5, Pp. 1-10. Publisher’s Version Stepwise_Distributed_Open_Innovation_Contests.pdf
Karim R. Lakhani and Akiko Kanno. 2017. Weathernews. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
2016
Samer Faraj, Georg von Krogh, Eric Monteiro, and Karim R. Lakhani. 2016. “Special Section Introduction—Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows.” Information Systems Research, 27, 4, Pp. 668-684. Publisher’s Version
Christoph Riedl, Richard Zanibbi, Marti A. Hearst, Siyu Zhu, Michael Menietti, Jason Crusan, Ivan Metelsky, and Karim R. Lakhani. 2016. “Detecting Figures and Part Labels in Patents: Competition-Based Development of Image Processing Algorithms.” International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 19, 2, Pp. 155-172. Publisher’s Version Detecting_Figures_and_Part_Labels_in_Patents.pdf
Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani. 2016. “Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production, and the Design of Supporting Institutions.” In Innovation Policy and the Economy, 16: Pp. 135-167. Chicago, IL. Publisher’s Version Innovation_Experiments.pdf
Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl. 2016. “Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance, Novelty, and Resource Allocation in Science.” Management Science, 62, 10, Pp. 2765-2783. Publisher’s Version Looking_Across_and_Looking_Beyond_the_Knowledge_Frontier.pdf
Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti. 2016. Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence. National Bureau of Economic Research. Publisher’s Version Motivating_Effort_in_Contributing_to_Public_Good_Inside_Organizations.pdf
Kevin J. Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti. 2016. “Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design.” The RAND Journal of Economics, 47, 1, Pp. 140-165. Publisher’s Version Performance_Responses_to_Competition.pdf
Dietmar Harhoff and Karim R. Lakhani. 2016. Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Publisher’s Version
2015
Karim R. Lakhani and Greta Friar. 2015. Havas: Change Faster. Harvard Business School Teaching Notes. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani. 2015. Innovating with the Crowd. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani and Greta Friar. 2015. Nivea (A) and (B). Harvard Business School Teaching Notes. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani. 2015. “’Open’ Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology.” Research Policy, 44, 1, Pp. 4-19. Publisher’s Version ‘Open’_Disclosure_of_Innovations.pdf
Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina, and Greta Friar. 2015. OpenIDEO. Harvard Business School Teaching Notes. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani and Greta Friar. 2015. Prodigy Network: Democratizing Real Estate Design and Financing. Harvard Business School Teaching Notes. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Kevin J. Boudreau and Lars B. Jeppesen. 2015. “Unpaid Crowd Complementors: The Platform Network Effect Mirage.” Strategic Management Journal, 36, 12, Pp. 1761-1777. Publisher’s Version Unpaid_Crowd_Complementors.pdf
2014
Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani. 2014. “Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business.” Harvard Business Review, 92, 11, Pp. 90-99. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Karim R. Lakhani and Greta Friar. 2014. Bioinspiration at the San Diego Zoo. Harvard Business School Teaching Plan. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Vish V. Krishnan, and Ruth Page. 2014. Bioinspiration at the San Diego Zoo. Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim Lakhani and Michael Tushman. 2014. Havas: Change Faster. Harvard Business School Teaching Plan. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani and Michael L. Tushman. 2014. Havas: Change Faster. Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Michael L. Tushman, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, and Kerry Herman. 2014. Houston, We Have a Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (A). Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Michael L. Tushman, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, and Kerry Herman. 2014. Houston, We Have a Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (B). Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Greta Friar, and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa. 2014. Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A). Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, and Tushar Kothalkar. 2014. Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (B). Harvard Business School Case Supplement. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Johann Fuller, Volker Bilgram, and Greta Friar. 2014. Nivea (A). Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Johann Fuller, Volker Bilgram, and Greta Friar. 2014. Nivea (B). Harvard Business School Case Supplement. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Katja Hutter, and Greta Friar. 2014. Prodigy Network: Democratizing Real Estate Design and Financing. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti, and Kerry Herman. 2014. Samsung Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim Lakhani and Greta Friar. 2014. Victors & Spoils: ‘Born Open’. Harvard Business School Teaching Plan. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani and Michael L. Tushman. 2014. Victors & Spoils: ‘Born Open’. Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
2013
Andrea Blasco, Kevin Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani, Michael Menietti, and Christoph Riedl. 2013. “Do Crowds Have the Wisdom to Self-Organize?”.
Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Kevin J. Boudreau. 2013. “Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School.” MIT Sloan Management Review 54 (3). Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, and Michael L. Tushman. 2013. “Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: Task Decomposition, Knowledge Distribution and the Locus of Innovation.” In Handbook of Economic Organization: Integrating Economic and Organizational Theory, edited by Anna Grandori, Pp. 355-382. Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. Publisher’s Version Open_Innovation_and_Organizational_Boundaries.pdf
Karim R. Lakhani, Katja Hutter, Stephanie Healy Pokrywa, and Johann Fuller. 2013. Open Innovation at Siemens. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Kevin J. Boudreau, Po-Ru Loh, Lars Backstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Eric Lonstein, Mike Lydon, Alan MacCormack, Ramy A. Arnaout, and Eva C. Guinan. 2013. “Prize-based Contests Can Provide Solutions to Computational Biology Problems.” Nature Biotechnology, 31, 2, Pp. 108-111. Publisher’s Version Prize-based_Contests_Can_Provide_Solutions.pdf
Andrew King and Karim R. Lakhani. 2013. “Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas.” MIT Sloan Management Review 55 (1). Publisher’s Version
Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani. 2013. “Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner.” Harvard Business Review 91 (4), Pp. 61-69. Publisher’s Version
2012
Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani. 2012. “The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort.” In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Scott Stern and Josh Lerner. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Publisher’s Version Confederacy_of_Heterogeneous_Software.pdf
Karim R. Lakhani and Meredith L. Liu. 2012. Innovation at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Kevin J. Boudreau. 2012. “Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom? An Early Look at Large Numbers of Software App Developers and Patterns of Innovation.” Organization Science, 23, 5, Pp. 1409-1427. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina, and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa. 2012. OpenIDEO. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
2011
Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani. 2011. “Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis.” Management Science, 57, 5, Pp. 843-863. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani. 2011. InnoCentive.com (A) (TN). Harvard Business School Teaching Notes. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein. 2011. InnoCentive.com (B). Harvard Business School Case Supplement. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein. 2011. InnoCentive.com (C). Harvard Business School Case Supplement. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Paul R. Carlile and Karim R. Lakhani. 2011. Innovation and the Challenge of Novelty: The Novelty-Confirmation-Transformation Cycle in Software and Science. Harvard Business School Publishing. Publisher’s Version Challenge_of_Novelty.pdf
Karim R. Lakhani. 2011. Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration (TN). Harvard Business School Teaching Notes. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Anat Bracha, Michael Menietti, and Lise Vesterlund. 2011. “Seeds to Succeed?: Sequential Giving to Public Projects.” Journal of Public Economics, 95, 5-6, Pp. 416-427. Publisher’s Version Seeds_to_Succeed.pdf
Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein. 2011. TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing (TN). Harvard Business School Teaching Notes. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, Eric Lonstein, and Stephanie Pokrywa. 2011. TopCoder (B). Harvard Business School Case Supplement. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
2010
Lars Bo Jeppesen and Karim R. Lakhani. 2010. “Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search.” Organization Science, 21, 5, Pp. 1016-1033. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani and Paul R. Carlile. 2010. Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
Kevin Boudreau. 2010. “Open Platform Strategies and Innovation: Granting Access vs. Devolving Control.” Management Science, 56, 10, Pp. 1849-1872. Publisher’s Version
Karim R. Lakhani, David A. Garvin, and Eric Lonstein. 2010. TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing. Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
2009
Kevin Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu. 2009. “Platform Rules: Multi-sided Platforms as Regulators.” In Platforms, Markets, and Innovation, edited by Annabelle Gawer. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. Publisher’s Version
2008
Joel West and Karim R. Lakhani. 2008. “Getting Clear About Communities in Open Innovation .” Industry and Innovation, 15, 2. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Karim R. Lakhani. 2008. InnoCentive.com (A). Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School. Publisher’s Version
2007
Karim R. Lakhani and Lars B. Jeppesen. 2007. “Getting Unusual Suspects to Solve R&D Puzzles.” Harvard Business Review, 85, 5. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Karim R. Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta. 2007. “The Principles of Distributed Innovation.” Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 2, 3. Publisher’s Version
2003
Georg von Krogh, Sebastian Spaeth, and Karim R. Lakhani. 2003. “Community, Joining, and Specialization in Open Source Software Innovation: A Case Study.” Research Policy, 32, 7, Pp. 1217-1241. Publisher’s Version Abstract
Karim R. Lakhani and Eric von Hippel. 2003. “How Open Source Software Works: “Free” User-to-User Assistance.” Research Policy, 32, 6, Pp. 923-943. Publisher’s Version Abstract