Boudreau C.V.

June, 2021

Academic Positions

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Primary Academic & Research Appointments:

2016- NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY (Boston), Associate Professor, D’Amore McKim School of Business

• Faculty appointments in College of Social Sciences in the Department of Economics and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences

• Faculty Research Affiliate, Institute of for the Wireless Internet of Things

• Principal Investigator, RPDIES

  • IoT Open Innovation Lab (team-based distributed innovation)

  • Digital-meets-Physical Marketing Hackathon

  • NUGig (experimental talent problem-solving and matching platform)

  • Universities-as-Platforms (engineering and developing human capital, funding breakthrough science)

2010-2016 LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL (London, Dubai), Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Assistant Professor

2007-2009 HEC-PARIS (Paris), Strategy & Policy, Assistant Professor

Other Research & Academic Appointments:

2017-  NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NBER)

• Productivity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship program, Faculty Research Associate

2016- HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Laboratory for Innovation Science, Research Affiliate

2011- HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Research Affiliate

2015-2016 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, Strategy Unit, Visiting Assistant Professor

2011-2015 NASA TOURNAMENT LAB, Chief Economist

• Innovation and creation of operating unit and accompanying research effort to carry out data science, algorithm design, and software development problems 

2001-2006 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

• PhD Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant for Olivier Blanchard, Erik Brynjolfsson, Michael Cusumano, Rebecca Henderson, Simon Johnson, Ezra Zuckerman

Engineering & Executive Professional Experience 

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2014-2015 BABBAGE INNOVATION & ANALYTICS, President: Crowdsourcing data science and machine learning for large pharma, agritech.

2006- RESEARCH-RELATED ADVISORY & BOARD, Consulting & Executive Education: General Electric, Zain, Syngenta, iMatchative, Altx Hedge Funds, Republic Health Systems.

1999-2001 

1999-2001 THE ECONOMIST, Head of Western Europe Practice - Internet, Telecommunications, and Media Advisory and Consulting (Cambridge, London).

1996-1999 QUALCOMM, In-Country Project Lead of M&A and Infrastructure Development Teams (Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico).

1996 NIKEAN WIRELESS, Startup Manager (San Diego). Building wireless Palm Pilot hardware and software stack

1994-1996  DELOITTE STRATEGY CONSULTING / BRAXTON ASSOCIATES, Strategy Consultant, Technology, Media, Telecommunications and Internet (Canada, United States, Columbia, Global).

1992-1994 NORTEL NETWORKS & BELL NORTHERN RESEARCH Engineering Design of Experiments and Statistical Process Control (Canada).

1990 CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY, Canadarm Engineering Intern (Canada).

Education 

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2006 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT), Sloan School of Management, PhD Behavioral and Policy Sciences (Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy). Dissertation: “How Open Should an Open System Be?”

• Advisors: Michael Cusumano, Rebecca Henderson, Marc Rysman

• MIT Presidential Fellow

1997 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Dept. of Economics, M.A. Economics. 

• Concentrations in Organizational Economics and Industrial Organization.

1995 UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO, B.A.Sc., School of Engineering

• Minor in Management Science, graduate courses in Decision Theory and Optimization

• Design of experiments in microelectronics heat transfer

• Graduated summa cum laude

• René Descartes Competition Physics Scholarship

Research

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Experiments and Research in Advanced Stages of Preparation or Submitted

• Field Experiment on Designing Gigs vs. Contest Platforms

• Field Experiment on Designing Tournament vs. Races Platforms, with Andrea Blasco, Karim Lakhani, Michael Menietti

• Field Experiment on Interdisciplinary Breakthrough Science and University-as-Platform, with Ina Ganguli

• Field Experiment on the Nature of Competition and its Strategic vs. Physiological Effects, with Karim Lakhani, Michael Menietti

• Field Experiment on Team Composition and Performance in Platform Teams, with Nilam Kaushik

• Field Experiment on Human Capital Acquisition by Engineers and Universities-as-Platforms, with Matt Marx

• Managing the Long Tail through Platform Design

• Competing with "Free" Business Models on a Platform, with Lars Bo Jeppesen and Milan Miric

• "Freemium" Business Models (book chapter), with Lars Bo Jeppesen and Milan Miric

• Sustainable Competitive Advantage while Competing on a Platform, with Lars Bo Jeppesen and Milan Miric

• Field Experiment on Gender and Competition on a Platform, with Nilam Kaushik

Published

1. Boudreau, K, L. Jeppesen, M.Miric (2022) "Profiting from Digital Innovation: Patents, Copyright and Performance." Research Policy

2. Boudreau, K, L. Jeppesen, M.Miric (2022) "Competing on Freemium: Digital Competition with Network Effects" Strategic Management Journal

3. Boudreau, K. (2021). "Promoting Platform Takeoff and Self-Fulfilling Expectations: Field Experimental Evidence." Management Science.

4. Boudreau, K., L. Jeppesen, T. Reichstein, R. Rullani. (2020). "Crowdfunding as Donations to Entrepreneurial Firms." Research Policy.

5. Miric, M., K. Boudreau, L. Jeppesen (2019). "Protecting their Digital Assets". Research Policy.

6. Lakhani, K., K. Boudreau, E. Guinan (2018) "Randomized Insights: Field Experiments in Understanding Knowledge Production in the Sciences." Science.

7. Boudreau, K., Designing Your Company: Creating, Delivering, and Capturing Value (January 3, 2018). Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 16-131.

8. Boudreau, K. (2017), "Platform-Based Organization and Boundary Choices: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth in the Early History of Mobile Computing." Advances in Strategic Management on “Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms.” eds. Furman, Gawer, Stern, Silverman.

9. Boudreau, K., T. Brady, I. Ganguli, P. Gaule, E. Guinan, T. Hollenberg, K. Lakhani (2017) "A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations." Review of Economics and Statistics.

10. Boudreau, K., (2017) “A Short Guide to Strategy for Entrepreneurs.” Harvard Business Review.

11. Boudreau, K., E. Guinan, K. Lakhani and C. Riedl (2015) Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance, Novelty and Resource Allocation in Science. Management Science.

12. Boudreau, K., K. Lakhani, M. Menietti (2015) Performance Responses To Competition Across Skill-Levels In Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design. RAND Journal ofEconomics.

13. Boudreau, K., and K. Lakhani (2015) Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions. In Innovation Policy and the Economy. National Bureau of Economic Research, volume 16, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

14. Boudreau, K., L. Jeppesen (2014) Unpaid Platform Complementors and the Network Effect Mirage. Strategic Management Journal.

15. Boudreau, K., K. Lakhani (2014) ’Open’ Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology. ResearchPolicy.

16. Lakhani, K., K. Boudreau, L. Backstrom, C. Baldwin, P. Loh, E. Lonstein, M. Lydon, A. MacCormack, R. Arnaout and E. Guinan (2013) Prize-based contests can provide solutions to computational biology problems. Nature Biotechnology.

17. Boudreau, K., K. Lakhani (2013) Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner. Harvard Business Review. (Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award best paper finalist, 2013).  Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award Best Paper Finalist

18. Guinan, E., K. Boudreau, K. Lakhani (2013) Experiments in Open Innovation at the Harvard Medical School. MIT Sloan Management Review.

19. Boudreau, K. (2012) Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom? An Early Look at Large Numbers of Software “Apps” Developers and Patterns of Innovation. Organization Science. (INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section Best Paper Award)

20. Boudreau, K., N. Lacetera and K. Lakhani (2011) Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis. Management Science. (Management Science Best Paper Finalist)

21. Boudreau, K., K. Lakhani (2011) The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort. J. Lerner and S. Stern (eds.),  The  Rate and  Direction  of  Inventive  Activity,  50th  Anniversary Volume. National Bureau of Economic Research.

22. Boudreau, K. (2010) Open Platform Strategies and Innovation: Granting Access vs. Devolving Control. Management Science.

23. Boudreau, K., A. Hagiu (2009) Platforms Rules: Multi-sided Platforms as Regulators. A. Gawer, ed. Platforms, Markets and Innovation. Edward Elgar, London.

24. Boudreau, K., K. Lakhani (2009) How to Manage Outside Innovation: Competitive Markets or Collaborative Communities? MIT Sloan Management Review.

Invited Talks and Seminars 

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2022

Max Planck Institute, ASSA annual meetings, INSEAD

2021

Wharton Technology & Innovation Conference; Digital Business Conference CBS/Bocconi, AoM Meetings (Understanding Organizational Governance in Digitally Transformed World; Platforms, Platform Characteristics, and Complementor Performance and Strategy; Open Innovation in Science; Platforms and Ecosystems: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantages; invited discussant Toulouse School of Economics : Platform Economics Seminar; invited discussant European Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship workshop)

2020 

Duke University, National Bureau of Economic Research, Organization Science Special Conference on Experiments in Organization Theory, Academy of Management

2019 

Stanford University, Harvard University, Purdue University, Academy of Management (Platforms, Field Experiments, Science Funding)

2018 

University of Michigan, Stanford University, Economics of Online Platforms Conference (University of Florida Law & Economics Departments), HBS Digital Conference, United States Patent Office, Boston College Digital Innovation Conference, Northwestern University, National Science Foundation, NBER Productivity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar, Academy of Management, Organizational Design Community Conference, UC Berkeley, Case Western Workshop on Digital Innovation, NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting, Roundtable on Engineering Entrepreneurship Research (REER) meeting Georgia Tech

2017 

Copenhagen Business School, IESE Business School, Academy of Management, LSE, UCL, International Industrial Organizational Conference (IIOC), Academy of Management, DRUID, New York University

2016 

Strategy Research Forum (Field Experimental Methods), Northeastern University

2015 

NYU-Stern, USC-Marshall, Yale University, Dartmouth-Tuck Strategy Conference, UC-Berkeley, HBS-Strategy seminar, HBS-TOM seminar, HBS Strategy Conference, INFORMS conference, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Boston University-Platforms Conference, Cornell University, Cambridge University

2014 

Columbia, Cambridge, Oxford, Rutgers, INSEAD Fontainbleau, Strategic Management Society (‘Big Data and Strategy’), Academy of Management (‘Field Experimental Methods in Management’)

2013 

INSEAD Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, Academy of Management

2012 

LMU, NBER Workshop on Scholarly Communication (Economics of Science), European Policy for Intellectual Property, Leuven Center for Research on Economics and Strategy, Washington University-Olin, World Bank Conference on Intellectual Capital, Tel Aviv University Economics Department and Strategy joint seminar, BYU-University of Utah Winter Strategy Conference, NBER Productivity Group, UC-San Diego, UC-Berkeley, Stanford

2011 

TUM, ESMT, INFORMS, Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research, NBER, HBS, Hebrew University Economics Department, Academy of Management

2010 

Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, London Business School, Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research, Academy of Management, Platforms Symposium, Strategic Management Society, NESTA Open Innovation Research Roundtable

2009 

Dartmouth University, Carnegie Mellon University, IESE, IE, Academy of Management, American Economics Association

2008 

Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research, Strategic Management Society, Sorbonne, Meeting of Recipients of Microsoft Grants for Research on Digital Platforms, Imperial College, London Business School, Wharton, Ottawa University

2007 

Free and Open Source Software Workshop, Schumpeter Conference, User Innovation Workshop, CBS, Academy of Management, Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, Washington University-Olin, International Industrial Organization Conference, Sorbonne, IDEI Economics of Software and Internet Industries, American Economics Association

Grants, Awards and Fellowships 

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2001–2006 MIT Presidential Fellow

2001–2006 MIT-Sloan School Fellowship

2007 Microsoft Research Grant

2007 Best Review Award, BPS, Academy of Management

2010 National Bureau of Economic Research Honorarium in association with 50th anniversary of ‘The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity’

2010–2015 Research and Materials Grant, London Business School

2011–2012 Google Faculty Research Grant

2011–2012 CIGREF (French Network for Large Companies) Research Award

2011–2012 National Bureau of Economic Research, Innovation Policy working group academic grant

2013 Management Science, Distinguished Service Award

2013 Management Lab Grant

2013 Management Science, Meritorious Service Award

2013 Economics of Knowledge Contribution and Distribution Research Grant (funded by the Sloan Foundation)

2013 Management Science, Best Paper Finalist

2013 McKinsey Award, Finalist (HBR Best Paper)

2015 Harvard Business School Research Grant

2016 DMSB Research Seed Funding

2016 G.E. Open Innovation Research Grant

2017 Best Paper runner-up, INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

2017 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Research Grant: Internet of Things Research Platform

2017 Copeland Best Paper Award: “Looking Across & Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier”

2017 Research Institute for Experiential Learning Science (RIELS) research grant

2017 Best Paper, INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

2017 Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex Research Support: Research Laboratory Cluster for Internet of Things (joint with multiple College of Engineering researchers for state of the art office and laboratory facilities)

2019 IoT Open Innovation Lab recipient of IoT Colleges & Universities Innovator Award

Service

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Associate Editor and Editorial Boards

2009- Business Strategy Department, Assoc. Editor, Management Science

2011- Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department, Assoc. Editor, Management Science

2014- Information Systems, ad hoc Assoc. Editor, Management Science

2019- Decision Sciences, ad hoc Assoc. Editor, Management Science

2015- Editorial Board, Strategic Management Journal

2021- Co-editor, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy

Ad hoc Reviewing

Management: Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Research Policy, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review,Strategic Management Review

Science & Technology: Science, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, PloS One, PNAS Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences

Information Systems, Operations: Production and Operations Management, Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Journal of the Association of Information Systems

Practitioner Journals: Harvard Business Review, California Management Review

Economics: American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Science, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Review of Network Economics

Academy Organization & Leadership

• Faculty consortium - Organization and governance, INSEAD

• PhD consortium - PhD Consortium, Strategy

• New Faculty consortium - PhD Consortium, Strategy

• PhD consortium - PhD Consortium, Technology & Innovation Management

Internal Service

2020- Innovation of the Business School committee

2020- School-wide Innovating the MBA Strategy Committee

2018- School-wide Tenure & Promotion Committee

2018- School-wide Research Committee

2018- School-wide Graduate Research & Post Doc Exploration Committee

2018- Wireless Internet Research Center Founding Faculty Team

2016- University IoT Open Innovation, Research Director

2016- Department Hiring Committee

2016 University-wide Science, Technology, and Society Committee

2016 Entrepreneurship & Innovation Department Spotlight Seminar Manager

Prior: Hiring committees, Seminar Manager, Digital Technology Advisory Committee

Teaching Experience

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Courses

2019- Economic & Business Research of Platforms & the Digital Economy (MBA, Multi-Disciplinary Honors)

2019- Platforms & Data-Driven Business Models; Platform Innovation (MBA, Multi-Disciplinary Honors)

2017-2018 Innovation, Enterprise Growth and Entrepreneurship (MBA)

2007-2016 Strategic Management (Masters, MBA, Executive MBA London, Executive MBA Dubai, PhD)

2008-2009 Science & Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurial Management Mini-Course (Paris MBA)

2008-2012 Empirical Research Methods (PhD)

Teaching Cases

2008 Casadesus-Masanell, R., K. Boudreau and J. Mitchell. (2008) Palm (A): The Debate on Licensing Palm’s OS (1997).

2008 Casadesus-Masanell, R., K. Boudreau and J. Mitchell. (2008) Palm (B): 2001.

2008 Casadesus-Masanell, R., K. Boudreau and J. Mitchell. (2008) Palm (C): 2005.

2008 Casadesus-Masanell, R., K. Boudreau and J. Mitchell. (2008) Palm (D): Epilogue as of 2008.

2010 Francioli, S., K. Boudreau. (2008) The Commercial Space Business: EADS Astrium.

2011 Blasco, A. and K. Boudreau. (2011) Fubles.com: Growing a Platform.

2015 Boudreau, K. (2015) The Economist Corporate Network.

Student Research Advising

PhD Milan Miric, CBS (placement: USC Marshall)

PhD Nilam Kaushik, University College London (placement: IIM Bangalore)

Other Student Research Advising: Anand Hegde, Steven Abbott, Abhinav Kharbanda, Afan Khan, Atif Khan, Austen Keene, Darsh Desai, Dyan Khor, Eric Doroski, Gourishankar Seal, Gowtham Genupur, Jack Du, Joseph Antony, Katie Wilhoit, Kaushik Padmanabhan, Mavez Dabas, Nicole Danuwidjaja, Nikin Tharan, Olga Ozhereleva, Paras Babbar, Patrick McGrath, Prathamesh Tajane, Praveen Pallapothula, Priyaranjan Panda, Raghavi Kirouchenaradjou, Richard Paulsen, Samuel Hausmann, Satish Kumar Anbalagan, Sreerag Mandakathil, Sravanthi Kethireddy, Vivek Dalal