Presenters/Karim Lakhani
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Karim Lakhani | |
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| Affiliation | Harvard Business School |
| Personal site | http://pine.hbs.edu/external/facPersonalShow.do?pid=240491 |
| Biography | |
| Karim R. Lakhani is an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in the management of technological innovation and product development in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be found and put to use inside for innovation in the biotechnology, life sciences and industrial chemicals industries. He is co-editor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2005) | |
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