Karim R. Lakhani

Karim R. Lakhani (born c. 1970) is a leading technology management and innovation expert and is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow at the Harvard Business School. The founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, he is best known for his pioneering scholarship on crowd-based[1] innovation models (open and user innovation), artificial intelligence (AI), and the importance of data and analytics in the digital transformation of companies and industries. In particular, he is known for his research on the T-shirt company Threadless,[2][3] and prize-based open innovation firms like InnoCentive[4][5][6] and Topcoder.

His most recent book, Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World (co-authored with Marco Iansiti) investigates how data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming industries and the nature of work, and how AI-centric organizations are redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. With examples such as Airbnb, Microsoft, and Amazon, the book explores how AI-driven processes are scalable, propel scope increase, enable companies to straddle industries, and drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions which provide a competitive edge.

Lakhani is the principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the faculty co-founder of the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative.

He has partnered with NASA, Topcoder, and the Harvard Medical School to conduct field experiments on the design of crowd innovation programs. He serves on the Board of Directors of Mozilla and Local Motors.

Education

Lakhani earned a Bachelor in Engineering Management in 1993 at McMaster University, a Master of Science in Technology and Policy in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Management in 2006 at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His Ph.D. dissertation was advised by Eric von Hippel, with Tom Allen and Wanda Orlikowski.

Books

Articles

Lakhani is an author or co-author of many scholarly articles on technology and innovation.

gollark: You can measure historical GDP, ish, and it's way lower than we have now, despite them having access to the same planet to work with.
gollark: Except it isn't really.
gollark: I mean, outside of toy models or whatever.
gollark: Maybe you could make a good scifi thing a hundred years in the future or something about faster computers/better optimization algorithms/distributed system designs/something making central planning more tractable. Although in the future supply chains will probably be even more complex. But right now, it is NOT practical.
gollark: In any case, if you have a planned system and some new need comes up... what do you do, spend weeks updating the models and rerunning them? That is not really quick enough.

References
  1. Unrau, J. Jack (2007-07-10). "The Experts at the Periphery". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  2. Chafkin, Max (2008-06-01). "The Customer is the Company: How Threadless Uses Crowdsourcing". Inc. Magazine. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  3. Sipress, Alan (2007-06-18). "T-Shirt Maker's Style, Drawn From Web Users". The Washington Post. ISSN 0740-5421. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  4. Dean, Cornelia (2008-07-22). "If You Have a Problem, Ask Everyone". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  5. Travis, John (2008-03-28). "Science by the Masses". Science. 319 (5871): 1750–1752. doi:10.1126/science.319.5871.1750. PMID 18369115.
  6. Wessel, David (2007-01-25). "Prizes for Solutions to Problems Play Valuable Role in Innovation". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
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