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KEVIN BOUDREAU
Assistant
Professor, Strategy
kboudreau at london dot com
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I research questions at the
intersection of innovation, competition and organization. My research is
mostly empirical, involving large-sample, quantitative analysis.
I have a particular interest in
understanding how large groups or “ecosystems” of innovating
firms and individuals should be deliberately organized and governed.
An ecosystem sponsor might orchestrate
an ecosystem through a number of strategic instruments, including:
contracts, property rights assignment, licensing practices, technology
and architecture design, fomenting specific norms and culture and other
means.
This viewpoint is applicable to a wide
range of sectors including publishing, telecoms, software, publishing,
aerospace, websites, portals, social network platforms, IT, video games,
television networks, automotive manufacturers, fashion designers and
retailers, defense industry and others.
I have a PhD from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), where I studied Economics and Strategy,
an MA in Economics from the University of Toronto and a BASc in Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Here are some papers
and my resume.
PAPERS
·
Racing
and Searching in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis, Harvard Business School Working Paper
No. 09-041 (with N. Lacetera, CWRU and K. Lakhani, Harvard
Business School)
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Opening
the Platform vs. Opening the Complementary Good? The Effect on Product
Innovation in Handheld Computing
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Organizing
Digital Innovation Ecosystems: Econometric Analysis
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How
to Manage Outside Innovation: Building Communities or Markets of External
Innovators? Sloan Management Review 2009 (with K. Lakhani, Harvard Business School)
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Platform
Rules: Regulating the Ecosystem around a Multi-Sided Platform (with A. Hagiu, Harvard
Business
School)
in Gawer, A. (ed) (2009), Platforms,
Markets and Innovation, Cheltenham,
UK and Northampton, MA, US:
Edward Elgar.
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How Open
Should an Open System Be? : Essays on Mobile
Computing (Dissertation)
RESEARCH PROJECTS
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“Experiments
on Search, Open and Closed IPR”
(with C Baldwin, K. Lakhani, Harvard
Business
School
& A. MacCormack MIT)
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Organizing
Innovation for NBER 50th anniversary of The Rate
and Direction of Inventive Activity
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“Heterogeneity,
Knowledge, Competition, Innovation”
(with C. Helfat, Dartmouth & K. Lakhani,
Harvard
Business
School)
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“Econometric
Analysis of Video Game Modders”
(with Lars Bo Jeppessen, CBS)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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 strategy consultant, working with
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. Prior to arriving at LBS, I taught
Strategy, and Innovation and Entrepreneurship classes at HEC-Paris.
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Journals:
ManSci,
SMJ
OrgSci
RAND
JEMS
AMJ
AMR
ResPo
Links:
Technology Quarterly
MIT Technology Review
American Scientist
Scientific American
Design
Engineer
IEEE pubs
NYTimes Technology
Slashdot
The Register
TechCrunch
Brighthand
TMCnet
Ars Technica
Blogs:
Tech Innov & Intellectual Property
Marginal Revolution
Organizations and Markets
Personal, etc
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