Karim Lakhani

Karim Lakhani is the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence (AI). He is the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard and principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory.

Education:

• Ph.D. in management from MIT
• S.M. in Technology and Policy from MIT
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Management from McMaster University, Canada

His research focuses on distributed innovation models including open source communities and innovation contests. He has pioneered field experiments to solve innovation challenges with organizations like NASA and Harvard Medical School. His digital transformation research examines how analytics and AI reshape business models and operating architectures.

Dr. Lakhani has developed new courses on Digital Innovation & Transformation and co-chairs executive programs on data analytics. He previously worked at GE Healthcare and Boston Consulting Group.