Author Page for Karim R. Lakhani

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Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4425-03

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Sep 2003

Karim R. Lakhani and Robert G. Wolf

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and The Boston Consulting Group

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The Principles of Distributed Innovation

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization Summer, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2007, The Berkman Center for Internet and Society Research Paper No. 2007-7

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Oct 2007

Karim R. Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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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 New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

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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, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Harvard University - Organizational Behavior Unit

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Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2016

Kevin Boudreau, Eva Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani and Christoph Riedl

Northeastern University, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business

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How Open Source Software Works: 'Free' User-to-User Assistance?

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4117-00

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Nov 2001

Eric A. von Hippel and Karim R. Lakhani

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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Citation 79

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Performance Responses To Competition Across Skill-Levels In Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications For Tournament Design

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 14-014

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2016

Kevin Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti

Northeastern University, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Community, Joining, and Specialization in Open Source Software Innovation: A Case Study

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4413-03

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Mar 2003

Georg von Krogh, Sebastian Spaeth and Karim R. Lakhani

ETH Zurich, Universität St. Gallen and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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The Effects of Increasing Competition and Uncertainty on Incentives and Extreme-Value Outcomes in Innovation Contests

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper, Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2008-6

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2010

Kevin Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera and Karim R. Lakhani

Northeastern University, University of Toronto - Strategic Management and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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Public-Private Partnerships for Organizing and Executing Prize-Based Competitions

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2012-13

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Jun 2012

Raymond Tong and Karim R. Lakhani

The Boston Consulting Group and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Aug 2014

Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Tony Hollenberg and Karim R. Lakhani

Northeastern University, Harvard University - Harvard Medical School, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - College of Social and Behavioral Sciences - Department of Economics, CERGE-EI, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 14-002

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2015

Kevin Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani

Northeastern University and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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Organizations in the Shadow of Communities

Published in: O'Mahony, Siobhan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Organizations in the Shadow of Communities." In Communities and Organizations. Vol. 33, edited by Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood, 3–36. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 11-131

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2013

Siobhan O’Mahony and Karim R. Lakhani

Boston University School of Management and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions

Forthcoming in Innovation Policy and the Economy, volume 16, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. , Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 16-001, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 16-001

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2015

Kevin Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani

Northeastern University and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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Getting Clear About the Role of Communities in Open Innovation

Industry & Innovation, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 223-231, April 2008

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Jan 2011

Joel West and Karim R. Lakhani

KGI - Keck Graduate Institute and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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Innovation and the Challenge of Novelty: The Novelty-Confirmation-Transformation Cycle in Software and Science

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 11-096

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Mar 2011

Paul R. Carlile and Karim R. Lakhani

Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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The Trend Toward 'Open' IT in the Public Sector: Motives, Choices, and Outcomes

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2016

Joachim Henkel and Karim R. Lakhani

TUM School of Management - Technische Universität München (TUM) and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Jul 2011

Kevin Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani

Northeastern University and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Production

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 20-058

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 18 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2019

Jacqueline Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani

Harvard University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - College of Social and Behavioral Sciences - Department of Economics, University of Bath, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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Firms, Crowds, and Innovation

Strategic Organization, 2017, Vol 15(2) 119-140

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Oct 2017

Teppo Felin, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Tushman

University of Oxford - Said Business School, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Harvard University - Organizational Behavior Unit

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Quantifying the Immediate Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists

Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Research Paper No. 3608302

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Jun 2020

Kyle Myers, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Jerry G. Thursby, Marie Thursby, Peter Schiffer, Joseph Walsh, Karim R. Lakhani and Dashun Wang

Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Northwestern University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, Emory University - Department of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, Yale University, Northwestern University, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Northwestern University - Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems (NICO)

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Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w22189

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Apr 2016

Andrea Blasco, Olivia Jung, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti

Harvard University - Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Crowdsourcing Memories: Mixed Methods Research by Cultural Insiders-Epistemological Outsiders

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 20-038

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Feb 2020

Tarun Khanna, Karim R. Lakhani, Shubhangi Bhadada, Nabil Khan, Saba Kohli Davé, Rasim Alam and Meena Hewett

Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group, Harvard University, Masssachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University - Broad Institute, Barefoot College, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Students and Harvard University

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Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 20-059

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 29 May 2020

Jana Gallus, Olivia Jung and Karim R. Lakhani

UCLA Anderson, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

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OpenIDEO

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Case No. 612-066

Posted: 07 May 2012

Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group, New York University (NYU) - NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, New York University and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Case No. 610-074

Posted: 12 Apr 2012

Karim R. Lakhani and Paul R. Carlile

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems

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InnoCentive.Com (C)

Harvard Business School General Management Unit Case No. 612-027

Posted: 01 Mar 2012

Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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InnoCentive.Com (B)

Harvard Business School General Management Unit Case No. 612-026

Posted: 01 Mar 2012

Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing

Harvard Business School General Management Unit Case No. 610-032

Posted: 12 Feb 2012

Karim R. Lakhani, David A. Garvin and Eric Lonstein

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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TopCoder (B)

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Case No. 612-044

Posted: 26 Jan 2012

Karim R. Lakhani, Eric Lonstein and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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SAP AG: Orchestrating the Ecosystem

HBS Case No. 609-069, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit

Posted: 22 May 2009

Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani

Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

Karim R. Lakhani

Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group

Professor of Business Administration

Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science

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Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

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