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Karim R. Lakhani

Professor, Harvard Business School
Verified email at hbs.edu
Cited by 25062

Incentives and problem uncertainty in innovation contests: An empirical analysis

…, N Lacetera, KR Lakhani - Management …, 2011 - pubsonline.informs.org
Contests are a historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging
innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to …

[BOOK][B] How open source software works:“free” user-to-user assistance

KR Lakhani, E Von Hippel - 2004 - Springer
Some very successful “open source” software products have been and are being developed,
distributed, and supported in the field on a voluntary basis by and for users themselves — …

Community, joining, and specialization in open source software innovation: a case study

G Von Krogh, S Spaeth, KR Lakhani - Research policy, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper develops an inductive theory of the open source software (OSS) innovation
process by focussing on the creation of Freenet, a project aimed at developing a decentralized …

Using the crowd as an innovation partner.

KJ Boudreau, KR Lakhani - Harvard business review, 2013 - europepmc.org
From Apple to Merck to Wikipedia, more and more organizations are turning to crowds for
help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain …

Why hackers do what they do: Understanding motivation and effort in free/open source software projects

KR Lakhani, RG Wolf - 2005 - direct.mit.edu
“What drives Free/Open Source software (F/OSS) developers to contribute their time and
effort to the creation of free software products?” is a question often posed by software industry …

[PDF][PDF] The truth about blockchain

M Iansiti, KR Lakhani - Harvard business review, 2017 - e-tarjome.com
JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2017 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW 3 communities, and
individuals. They guide managerial and social action. And yet these critical tools and the …

Open innovation and organizational boundaries: Task decomposition, knowledge distribution and the locus of innovation

KR Lakhani, H Lifshitz-Assaf… - Handbook of economic …, 2013 - elgaronline.com
This chapter contrasts traditional, organization-centered models of innovation with more
recent work on open innovation. These fundamentally different and inconsistent innovation …

Marginality and problem-solving effectiveness in broadcast search

LB Jeppesen, KR Lakhani - Organization science, 2010 - pubsonline.informs.org
We examine who the winners are in science problem-solving contests characterized by open
broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers to discrete problems …

Special section introduction—Online community as space for knowledge flows

…, E Monteiro, KR Lakhani - Information systems …, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
Online communities frequently create significant economic and relational value for community
participants and beyond. It is widely accepted that the underlying source of such value is …

[HTML][HTML] Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists

…, MC Thursby, P Schiffer, JT Walsh, KR Lakhani… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
COVID-19 has not affected all scientists equally. A survey of principal investigators indicates
that female scientists, those in the ‘bench sciences’ and, especially, scientists with young …