Karim Lakhani

Karim R. Lakhani (born c. 1970) is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. He is the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. His research and teaching focuses on open and user innovation.

Lakhani earned his B.Eng.Mgt. in 1993 (McMaster University, Canada), his MS in 1999 and in 2006 his PhD in the MIT Sloan School of Management and was advised by Eric von Hippel, Tom Allen, and Wanda Orlikowski.

Lakhani is one of the foremost academic experts on and author of several of the most highly cited articles on free and open source software and the co-founder of open source research community hosted at MIT. He edited the book Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software () published by MIT Press.

In addition to Open Source, Lakhani's is cited as leading academic expert on the topic of crowdsourcing. In particular, he is known for his research on the T-shirt company Threadless, and prize-based open innovation firms like InnoCentive & TopCoder. Currently he is the principal investigator for the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab.

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