Hila Lifshitz-Assaf

Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences

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Soldiers Field Road

Cotting House 321A

Boston, MA 02163

United States

Harvard LISH, Lab for Innovation Sciences

William James Hall, Sixth Floor

33 Kirkland Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

University of Warwick, Warwick Business School

West Midlands, CV4 7AL

United Kingdom

http://https://www.hilalifshitz.com/

  • Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences

  • Harvard LISH, Lab for Innovation Sciences

  • University of Warwick, Warwick Business School

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Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 24-013, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 18 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2024
Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, Ethan R. Mollick, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Lisa Krayer, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Boston Consulting Group, Henderson Institute, Boston Consulting Group, Henderson Institute, Boston Consulting Group and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group
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Open Innovation and Organization Design

Journal of Organization Design, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 01 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2015
Michael Tushman, Karim R. Lakhani and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Harvard University - Organizational Behavior Unit, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences
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Organization design, Open innovation

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Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 12-57, Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior Unit Working Paper No. 12-057
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Karim R. Lakhani, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Michael Tushman
Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group, Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences and Harvard University - Organizational Behavior Unit
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Don't Expect Juniors to Teach Senior Professionals to Use Generative AI: Emerging Technology Risks and Novice AI Risk Mitigation Tactics

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper 24-074, Harvard Business Working Paper No. 24-074, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Jun 2024
Katherine Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan R. Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, Francois Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Harvard University - Business School (HBS), The Boston Consulting Group, Henderson Institute and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group
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Dismantling Knowledge Boundaries at NASA: The Critical Role of Professional Identity in Open Innovation

Administrative Science Quarterly. Vol. 63(4)746–782, 2018
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 May 2014 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2018
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences
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innovation; knowledge boundaries; boundary work; professional identity; open innovation; identity work; knowledge boundary work; technology, work and organizations

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To engage or not to engage with AI for critical judgments: How professionals deal with opacity when using AI for medical diagnosis

Accepted for publication at Organization Science Special Issue on Theorizing Emerging Technologies
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2022
Sarah Lebovitz, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Natalia Levina
University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce, Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
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artificial intelligence, opacity, technology adoption and use, professional judgment, uncertainty, innovation, medical diagnosis

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Minimal and Adaptive Coordination: How Hackathons’ Projects Accelerate Innovation without Killing it

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 06 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 06 May 2020
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Sarah Lebovitz and Lior Zalmanson
Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce and Coller School of Management -Tel Aviv University
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innovation, hackathons, temporality, new product development, coordination

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How Maker Tools Can Accelerate Ideation

MIT Sloan Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 05 Jan 2022
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Sarah Lebovitz
Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce
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Dismantling the Ivory Tower’s Knowledge Boundaries: A Call for Open Access as the New Normal in the Social Sciences Post-COVID

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 May 2022
Jacqueline N. Lane and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Unit and Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences
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Cyborgs, Centaurs and Self Automators: Human-Genai Fused, Directed and Abdicated Knowledge Co-Creation Processes and Their Implications for Skilling

Posted: 12 Sep 2024
Steven Randazzo, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine Kellogg, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Ethan R. Mollick and Karim R. Lakhani
Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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What Is Your Problem?! Translating, Decontextualizing and Recontextualizing Problems for Cross Boundary Innovation

Posted: 05 Apr 2022
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Zoe Szajnfarber and Michael Tushman
Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences, the George Washington University and Harvard University - Organizational Behavior Unit

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Innovation, problem formulation, knowledge boundary work, collaboration, open innovation, online platforms

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Crisis as Opportunity, Disruption and Exposure: Exploring Emergent Responses to Crisis Through Digital Technology

Information and organization 31(1) (2021)
Posted: 09 Mar 2022
Manos Gkeredakis, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Michael Barrett
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School

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Crisis, Covid, Digital Technologies, innovation

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Is AI Ground Truth Really ‘True’? The Dangers of Training and Evaluating AI Tools Based on Experts’ Know-What

Citation: Lebovitz, S., Levina, N., Lifshitz-Assaf, H. (2021). "Is AI ground truth really true? The dangers of training and evaluation AI tools based on experts' know-what." Management Information Systems Quarterly, 45(3b), pp: 1501-1525 available online: https://doi.10.25300/MISQ/2021/16564
Posted: 05 May 2021 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2023
Sarah Lebovitz, Natalia Levina and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce, New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences

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artificial intelligence, evaluation, uncertainty, new technology, professional knowledge work, innovation, know-how, medical diagnosis, ground truth

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Scaling Up Analogical Innovation with Crowds and AI

NYU Stern School of Business Forthcoming
Posted: 10 Apr 2021
Aniket Kittur, Lixiu Yu, tom hope, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, karni gilon, Felicia Ng, Robert E. Kraut and dafna shachaf
Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - School of Computer Science, Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - School of Computer Science

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Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production

Information Systems Research (ISR), 27(4), pp. 792-812
Posted: 01 Apr 2021
Johannes Daxenberger, Ofer Arazy, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Oded Nov and Iryna Gurevych
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Independent, Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University and Technical University of Darmstadt

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online production communities, co-production, Wikipedia, emergent roles, stability, mobility, artifact-centric, boundary infrastructure, sociomateriality

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End-Starting the Innovation Process: How Organizations Redesigned Their Innovation Process in the COVID-19 Pandemic

NYU Stern School of Business Forthcoming
Posted: 23 Feb 2021
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo and Olivia S Jung
Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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What Does Contact Tracing Really Mean? How Governments and Citizens Contest the Meaning of Contact Tracing through Sociomaterial Practices to Achieve Societal Resilience

NYU Stern School of Business Forthcoming
Posted: 03 Feb 2021
Semi Min, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Natalia Levina
New York University, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences, Students, Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

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Societal resilience, new technology, category research, social boundaries, symbolic boundaries, sociomaterial practice, COVID-19 pandemic

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Towering Over Babel: Distributed Recombinant Innovation through Cross Boundary Problem Formulation

Posted: 25 Apr 2016
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Harvard University Lab for Innovation Sciences

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Problem Solving, Problem Formulating, Decomposing, Modularity, Innovation, Distant and boradcast Search