Karim Lakhani

Confidence 0.75 · 4 sources · last confirmed 2026-10-15

Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; chair of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard; co-founder of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard.

Co-author on the Jagged Technological Frontier paper (Dell’Acqua et al., Org Sci 2026), the Cybernetic Teammate field experiment, and The Crowdless Future.

As of 2026 his HBS bio calls him co-founder and faculty chair of the HBS AI Institute, apparently the renamed Digital Data Design Institute. Lead author of A Guide to Building Change Resilience in the Age of AI (HBR, July 2025, with Jen Stave, Doug Ng and Daniel Martines), known in the wiki through the institute’s summary: three organisational “muscles” (sensing, rewiring, lock-in) and a five-step playbook (Learn, Do, Imagine, Act, Care).

Second appearance: the P&G field experiment (added 2026-09-15)

Co-author on [[2026-06-12-dellacqua-cybernetic-teammate-field-experiment-genai-teamwork|The Cybernetic Teammate]] (Organization Science 37(4), 2026) — the preregistered 791-person experiment at Procter & Gamble with Fabrizio Dell’Acqua and Ethan Mollick, testing whether generative AI can substitute for a human teammate across performance, expertise integration and social engagement.