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  • May 2010 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Data.gov

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi
This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. The process used by Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO, and his team to rapidly develop the website and to... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Cost vs Benefits; Innovation and Management; Information Management; Public Administration Industry; Information Industry; United States
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  • Research Summary

Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

    Shikhar Ghosh

    Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in... View Details

    • 05 Jan 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden, and Christopher Parsons

      Seth Neel

      Seth Neel is an Assistant Professor housed in the Department of Technology and Operations Management (TOM) at HBS, and a Faculty Affiliate in Computer Science at SEAS. He is Principal Investigator of the Trustworthy AI Lab in Harvard's new View Details
      • November 2019
      • Article

      Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment

      By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
      When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup boot camp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality... View Details
      Keywords: Peer Effects; Field Experiment; Interpersonal Communication; Creativity; Personal Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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      • 19 Jan 2012
      • News

      Pros and cons: Mixed bag

      • 30 Jan 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: January 30, 2007

      for organizational theory. The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse, and Jill A. Panetta Abstract Openness and free information sharing... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 06 Jan 2010
      • What Do You Think?

      Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

      Summing Up Do we even need a stringent climate change agreement? Judging from this month's comments, a question can be raised about the necessity of a climate change agreement, stringent or not, as a catalyst to foster innovation and the... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
      • 01 Jun 2013
      • News

      Collective Wisdom: Crowdsourcing for innovation, efficiency, and profit

      • March 2020 (Revised August 2020)
      • Case

      Culture at Google

      By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Amy Klopfenstein and Sarah Mehta
      Beginning in 2017, technology (tech) company Google faced a series of employee-relations issues that threatened its unique culture of innovation and open communication. Issues included protests surrounding Google’s contracts with the U.S. government, restrictions of... View Details
      Keywords: Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Resignation and Termination; Labor; Working Conditions; Employment; Labor Unions; Wages; Law; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Conflict Management; Trust; Motivation and Incentives; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Society; Social Issues; Culture; Civil Society or Community; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Race; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States; California
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      • 30 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      ‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

      It seems obvious: If you want to boost innovation from a crowd writing and improving software code, just dangle a cash incentive. When GitHub began offering matching funds to open View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
      • 16 Nov 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Can Mass General Brigham Diversify Its Community of Innovators?

      Keywords: Re: Katherine B. Coffman; Health
      • 19 Sep 2014
      • News

      Microbursts in learning

      • 23 Dec 2015
      • News

      The Untapped Potential of Health Care APIs

      • 2012
      • Chapter

      Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model

      By: Michael C. Jensen, Werner Erhard and Kari L. Granger
      The sole objective of our ontological/phenomenological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Development; Attitudes; Behavior; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Acquisition
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      • 08 Jul 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: July 8, 2008

      Innovation Authors:Joel West and Karim R. Lakhani Periodical:Industry & Innovation 15, no. 2 (April 2008) Abstract Research on open source... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

        For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, American companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in... View Details

        • November 2005 (Revised July 2009)
        • Case

        Trolltech (Norway) - Will Cenapio Steal Christmas?

        Describes the creation of an open source software venture in Norway, Australia, and the United States that lands a strategic OEM deal with a leading Japanese manufacturer of embedded devices (PDAs in this instance). Details the evolution of the two companies'... View Details
        Keywords: Applications and Software; Conflict and Resolution; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Open Source Distribution; Information Infrastructure; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Information Technology Industry; Australia; Japan; Norway; United States
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        • 23 Jan 2024
        • Book

        More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

        School. Kominers, who coauthored the new book The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create with marketing expert and Web3 entrepreneur Steve Kaczynski, says despite all the open questions... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services