Browsing by Author "Lakhani, Karim"
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Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Ganguli Prokopovych, Ina; Gaule, Patrick; Guinan, Eva Catharina; Lakhani, Karim R (2012-09-04)We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical School system of hospitals and research centers to understand how colocation impacts the likelihood of scientific collaboration. We introduce ... -
Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics
Boudreau, Kevin; Lakhani, Karim R (2014-01-13)Recent calls for greater openness in our private and public innovation systems have particularly urged for more open disclosure and granting of access to intermediate works–early results, algorithms, materials, data and ... -
Development of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Periapical Disease Detection in Dental Radiographs
Endres, Michael G.; Hillen, Florian; Salloumis, Marios; Sedaghat, Ahmad R.; Niehues, Stefan M.; Quatela, Olivia; Hanken, Henning; Smeets, Ralf; Beck-Broichsitter, Benedicta; Rendenbach, Carsten; Lakhani, Karim; Heiland, Max; Gaudin, Robert A. (MDPI AG, 2020-06-24)Periapical radiolucencies, which can be detected on panoramic radiographs, are one of the most common radiographic findings in dentistry and have a differential diagnosis including infections, granuloma, cysts and tumors. ... -
Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Production
Lane, Jacqueline; Ganguli, Ina; Gaule, Patrick; Guinan, Eva; Lakhani, Karim (2019-11)We consider how the cognitive similarity between knowledge-sharing partners affects the knowledge-production process, namely knowledge transfer, creation, and diffusion. We theorize that knowledge production is systematically ... -
Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments
Boudreau, Kevin; Helfat, Constance E.; Lakhani, Karim R; Menietti, Michael E (2012-09-04)Economic analysis of rank-order tournaments has shown that intensified competition leads to declining performance. Empirical research demonstrates that individuals in tournament-type contests perform less well on average ... -
From Crowds to Collaborators: Initiating Effort & Catalyzing Interactions Among Online Creative Workers
Boudreau, Kevin; Gaule, Patrick; Lakhani, Karim R; Riedl, Christoph; Woolley, Anita Williams (2014-04-24)Online collaborative platforms have emerged as a complementary approach to traditional organizations for coordinating the collective efforts of creative workers. However, it is surprising that they result in any productive ... -
Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions
Boudreau, Kevin Joseph; Lakhani, Karim R (2015-07-21)This paper discusses several challenges in designing field experiments to better understand how organizational and institutional design shapes innovation outcomes and the production of knowledge. We proceed to describe the ... -
Managerial Recognition as an Incentive for Innovation Platform Engagement: A Field Experiment and Interview Study at NASA
Gallus, Jana; Jung, Olivia; Lakhani, Karim (2019-11)Incentivizing employees to engage with novel innovation mechanisms and contribute to collective problem-solving can be difficult. We run a field experiment with NASA (N=11,192) to study two widely used classes of non-financial ... -
Marginality and Problem Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search
Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Lakhani, Karim R (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2009)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 from the laboratories of large R&D intensive ... -
The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations
Boudreau, Kevin; Guinan, Eva Catharina; Lakhani, Karim R; Riedl, Christoph (2012-12-06)Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed projects and allocation of resources. We investigate whether novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a ... -
Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design
Boudreau, Kevin; Lakhani, Karim R; Menietti, Michael (2014-01-13)Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely ... -
Potentially Long-Lasting Effects of the Pandemic on Scientists
Gao, Jian; Yin, Yian; Myers, Kyle; Lakhani, Karim; Wang, Dashun (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-10-26)Two surveys of principal investigators conducted between April 2020 and January 2021 reveal that while the COVID-19 pandemic’s initial impacts on scientists’ research time seem alleviated, there has been a decline in the ... -
Use of Crowd Innovation to Develop an Artificial Intelligence–Based Solution for Radiation Therapy Targeting
Mak, Raymond H.; Endres, Michael G.; Paik, Jin H.; Sergeev, Rinat A.; Aerts, Hugo; Williams, Christopher L.; Lakhani, Karim; Guinan, Eva C. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2019-05-01)Importance: Radiation therapy (RT) is a critical cancer treatment, but the existing radiation oncologist work force does not meet growing global demand. One key physician task in RT planning involves tumor segmentation for ... -
What Has Changed? The Impact of COVID Pandemic on the Technology and Innovation Management Research Agenda
George, Gerard; Lakhani, Karim; Puranam, Phanish (Wiley, 2020-12)Whereas the pandemic has tested the agility and resilience of organizations, it forces a deeper look at the assumptions underlying theoretical frameworks that guide managerial decisions and organizational practices. In ...