Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Author "Boudreau, Kevin"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...