KEVIN BOUDREAU
Assistant
Professor, Strategy
London
Business School
kboudreau
at london dot edu
I do empirical research on topics at the intersection of innovation,
competition and organization.
I am particularly interested in open and distributed innovation---and
how core “platform” owners can structure and organize these systems to be most
productive.
This perspective has implications for a larger number of industries,
such as: telecommunications, publishing, aerospace, life sciences, IT, video
games (console, mobile and on-line), computing, television, open source
software, on-line portals, automotive, fashion, health care organizations, franchises
of various kinds, defense, aerospace and many other contexts.
I have a PhD from MIT, an MA in Economics from the University of Toronto
and a BASc in Engineering from the University of Waterloo. I have taught
courses in Strategic Management, and Innovation and New Venture Strategies.
Opening the Platform
vs. Opening the Complementary Good? The
Effect on Product Innovation in Handheld Computing, conditional acceptance Management
Science
Competition
and Modular Innovation: Evidence from an “App Store” on Variety and Quality (under
review)
Racing and
Searching in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis (under
review) (with N. Lacetera, CWRU and K. Lakhani, HBS)
I am
currently pursuing several projects related to experiments and econometric
analysis of naturally-occurring data in systems industries, open markets and
open communities. Here are some examples:
Open Innovation Institutions as Governance or Selection
Mechanisms? Evidence from a Field Experiment on a NASA Space Life Science
Problem (with K. Lakhani,
HBS)
Field Experiments on Open Innovation in Software Development for National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 50th anniversary of
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity (with K. Lakhani, HBS)
Two-Sided Markets with Free Goods and Suppliers Who Don’t
Get Paid: Structural Econometric Analysis of Indirect Network Effects for
‘Mods’ of On-Line Games (with L.
Jeppessen, CBS)
How
to Manage Outside Innovation: “Communities” or “Markets” of External
Innovators? Sloan
Management Review 2009 (with K. Lakhani, HBS)
Platform Rules:
Regulating the Ecosystem around a Multi-Sided Platform
(with A. Hagiu, HBS) in Gawer, A. (ed) (2009), Platforms, Markets and Innovation
Palm
(A): The Debate on Licensing Palm’s OS (1997)." Harvard Business School Case 708-514. (with R. Casadesus-Masanell, Harvard
Business School, and Jordan
Mitchell)
Palm
(B): 2001. HBS Supplement
708-515. (with R.
Casadesus-Masanell, Harvard, and Jordan Mitchell)
Palm
(C): 2005. HBS Supplement
708-516. (with R. Casadesus-Masanell, Harvard, and Jordan Mitchell)
Palm
(D): Epilogue as of 2008. HBS
Supplement 708-517. (with R. Casadesus-Masanell, Harvard, and Jordan Mitchell)
Prior to academics, I was a director of research and
consulting at the Economist Intelligence Unit
focusing on communications and media industries in Western Europe and North
America. In an earlier position I was program leader for M&A and
large-scale infrastructure contracting projects at Qualcomm Inc, working mostly in Latin
America. At Braxton Associates,
I supported the Canadian practice as a business analyst, consulting to media
and telecoms companies and their investors in North and South America. In
engineering school I interned at the Canadian Space Agency
working on the Canadarm robotic arm for the international space station and
researched heat transfer problems for Nortel Networks.