Karim Lakhani

Professor Karim R. Lakhani serves as the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads multiple pioneering initiatives at the intersection of technology, innovation, and business strategy. His distinguished career spans academia and industry, with groundbreaking research in distributed innovation systems, crowd-based innovation, and digital transformation. A prolific scholar with over 150 publications, he co-authored the award-winning book "Competing in the Age of AI" (2020) and co-edited "Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software." His academic journey includes degrees from McMaster University (B.E. in Electrical Engineering and Management), and MIT (MS in Technology and Policy, PhD in Management). He founded several Harvard initiatives including the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and the Digital, Data & Design Institute, while also serving as principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory. Beyond academia, he advises senior executives, serves on the Mozilla Corporation board, and co-founded the Aspire Institute, supporting first-generation college students. His work has revolutionized understanding of open innovation, crowd-sourcing, and AI-driven business transformation, earning him recognition including the TUM-Peter Pribilla Innovation Leadership Award and support from the Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship.