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Dr. Kevin Boudreau is a Professor at Northeastern University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has previously taught at LBS, HEC-Paris, and Harvard Business School (visiting).
His research focuses on digital platforms, multi-sided markets, and data-driven and AI-enabled organizations, examining how firms and entrepreneurs navigate competition, innovation, and market design in these ecosystems. He also studies the economics and organization of research and scientific discovery, creative endeavors, and the generation of new knowledge investigating how incentives, collaboration, and institutional structures shape innovation, knowledge production, and technological progress. His work employs field experiments and the analysis of naturally occurring data, testing theories on live platforms in partnership with industry and governments. He has run many large scale research projects to learn across a wide range of creative, scientific, and innovative contexts in collaboration with government, industry, and education.
Dr. Boudreau's research has been published in leading journals such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, RAND Journal of Economics, and Science. He serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science and is on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Strategy Science.
A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Boudreau has received research funding from the Kauffman Foundation, Google, and Microsoft to support his work on innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital markets.
He has held positions at NASA, The Economist, Qualcomm, and Deloitte Strategy Consulting, and has founded and advised technology startups across telecommunications, mobile computing, data science-driven financial services, algorithmic crowdsourcing, and AI-driven platforms, applying research insights to real-world innovation ecosystems. He has worked across North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East, collaborating with businesses, startups, policymakers, governments, and research institutions to advance digital strategy and innovation.
He was a Presidential Scholar at MIT and holds a PhD in Behavioral and Policy Sciences from MIT, an MA in Economics from the University of Toronto, and a BASc in Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Magna Cum Laude, Dean’s Honors List, Canada Scholar), where he participated in the co-op program and conducted experiments and research on the development of statistical tools for the design and production of microelectronics.
