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    • 12 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

    by Rachel Layne

    A study of an international robotics competition reveals how experts prioritize easy-to-execute inventions over moonshot ideas. Are companies missing out on potential breakthroughs? Research by Jacqueline Lane and Karim Lakhani.

    • 12 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

    by Rachel Layne

    Team owners think they need marquee names or slick stadiums to prosper, but research by Karim Lakhani and Patrick Ferguson suggests that fans want something far simpler: suspense. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 11 May 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Time Dependency, Data Flow, and Competitive Advantage

    by Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Marco Iansiti, Newsha Ardalani, Feng Zhu, and Karim R. Lakhani

    The perishability of data has strategic implications for businesses that provide data-driven products and services. This paper illustrates how different business areas might differ with respect to the rate of decay in data value and the importance of data flow in their operations.

    • 17 Mar 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Consuming Contests: Outcome Uncertainty and Spectator Demand for Contest-based Entertainment

    by Patrick J. Ferguson and Karim R. Lakhani

    Analysis of Australian Football League data shows that the uncertainty of game outcomes has a large, positive causal effect on stadium attendance. These findings show how competitive balance is important for contest designers in general and sports leagues in particular.

    • 01 Feb 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Learning with People Like Me: The Role of Age-Similar Peers on Online Business Course Engagement

    by Laura R. Huber, Jacqueline N. Lane, and Karim R. Lakhani

    Online learning usually has lower course engagement and higher dropout rates than in-person instruction. However, when classmates are of similar ages it helps boost retention and engagement. Similar-aged classmates have more in common, making interactions mutually rewarding.

    • 06 Oct 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

    by Sean Silverthorne

    Here are recent ideas for managing through the pandemic on the topics of people management, strategy, marketing, and organizational design. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 24 Aug 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects

    by Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani

    Evaluators of early-stage scientific proposals tend to systematically focus on the weaknesses of proposed work rather than its strengths, according to evidence from two field experiments.

    • 10 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

    by Rachel Layne

    Women scientists and those with young children are paying a steep career price in the pandemic, according to new research by Karim Lakhani, Kyle Myers, and colleagues. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 03 Mar 2020
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Do Universities Need 2U To Create Digital Education?

    Re: Karim R. Lakhani & Marco Iansiti

    Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti discuss how universities are looking for technology partners to deliver digital education, as well as their new book, “Competing in the Age of AI.” Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 14 Jan 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

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

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

    By creating opportunities for cross-disciplinary scientists to meet and talk as part of a natural field experiment, this study analyzes and finds evidence for a systematic relationship between knowledge sharing and knowledge production in the sciences. Findings may extend to similar types of cross-disciplinary knowledge-sharing opportunities in other settings.

    • 13 Jan 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA

    by Jana Gallus, Olivia S. Jung, and Karim R. Lakhani

    What to do if organizational hierarchy hinders a platform aimed at worker collaboration? A field experiment with NASA employees finds that they respond to managerial appreciation above other incentives.

    • 09 Jan 2020
    • Book

    Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

    by Dina Gerdeman

    For the first time in 100 years, new technologies such as artificial intelligence are causing firms to rethink their competitive strategy and organizational structure, say Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani, authors of the new book Competing in the Age of AI. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 29 Oct 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

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

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

    Research on the traumatic 1947 partition of British India has most often been carried out by scholars in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. This article presents mixed methods research and analysis to explore tensions within current scholarship and to inspire new understandings of the Partition, and more generally, mass migrations and displacement.

    • 14 May 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review

    by Misha Teplitskiy, Hardeep Ranu, Gary Gray, Michael Menietti, Eva Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani

    Influence is a fundamental aspect of collective decisions. It is thus crucial to consider not only the composition of evaluation panels but also their deliberation process. This study illuminates drivers of influence among an elite population of experts and contributes to our understanding of resource allocation in science and other expert domains.

    • 18 Apr 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

    by Martha Lagace

    Radiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used to deliver an oncologist's skills for radiation therapy? Karim R. Lakhani discusses a unique open innovation experiment. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 21 Mar 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions

    by Blasco, Andrea, 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

    Crowdsourcing is a way for many individuals to address a common problem. This paper describes the design and outcomes of three crowdsourcing contests focused on algorithms for 1) clustering antibody sequences, 2) imputing gene expression measurements, and 3) performing fast queries on a particular dataset. Innovation through contests greatly improved the solutions available.

    • 21 Aug 2017
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

    by Dina Gerdeman

    Big data is a critical competitive advantage for companies that know how to use it. Harvard Business School faculty share insights that they teach to executives. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 20 Mar 2017
    • Book

    Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

    by Dina Gerdeman

    In his recent edited volume Revolutionizing Innovation, Karim Lakhani brings together the latest thinking around open innovation, users, and communities. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 15 Mar 2017
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

    by Carmen Nobel

    MBA students participating in Harvard Business School’s Climate Change Challenge offer ideas on how companies can negate impacts from a changing environment. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 01 Jun 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

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

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

    Results of this experiment involving 1,200 employees shows that workers have multiple underlying motivations to contribute to organizational betterment, consisting of a combination of monetary and altruistic incentives associated with the organization’s mission.

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