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Jacqueline Ng Lane

Jacqueline Ng Lane

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Jackie’s research examines how firms and scientific organizations can leverage open innovation and diversity in perspectives to generate and select novel and high-impact projects and ideas. In her academic work, she has partnered with organizations such as NASA, Harvard Medical School as well as other private high-technology organizations and digital platforms to design and run field experiments to solve their innovation problems and challenges.
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Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Jackie’s research examines how firms and scientific organizations can leverage open innovation and diversity in perspectives to generate and select novel and high-impact projects and ideas. In her academic work, she has partnered with organizations such as NASA, Harvard Medical School as well as other private high-technology organizations and digital platforms to design and run field experiments to solve their innovation problems and challenges.     

Jackie earned a bachelor’s degree in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton University, an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a PhD from Northwestern University. Most recently, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. Jackie has also worked in sales and trading and equity research at Morgan Stanley and as a finance and operations manager at Microsoft. 

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Publications

Journal Articles
Journal Articles

  • Lane, Jacqueline N. "The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’." Art. 104707. Research Policy 52, no. 3 (April 2023). View Details
  • Lane, Jacqueline N., Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Conservatism Gets Funded? A Field Experiment on the Role of Negative Information in Novel Project Evaluation." Management Science 68, no. 6 (June 2022): 4478–4495. View Details
  • Lane, Jacqueline N., Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?" Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 6 (June 2021). View Details
  • Gomez-Zara, Diego, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor. "Who Would You Like to Work With? Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems." Art. 659. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (May, 2019). View Details
  • Askarisichani, Omid, Jacqueline N. Lane, Francesco Bullo, Noah E. Friedkin, Ambuj K. Singh, and Brian Uzzi. "Structural Balance Emerges and Explains Performance in Risky Decision-Making." Art. 2648. Nature Communications 10 (2019): 1–10. View Details
  • Lane, Jacqueline N., Bruce Ankenman, and Seyed Iravani. "Insight into Gender Differences in STEM: Evidence from Peer Reviews in an Engineering Class." Service Science 10, no. 4 (2018): 442–456. View Details

Working Papers
Working Papers

  • Lane, Jacqueline N. "The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-037, January 2023. View Details
  • Lane, Jacqueline N., Zoe Szajnfarber, Jason Crusan, Michael Menietti, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Are Experts Blinded by Feasibility? Experimental Evidence from a NASA Robotics Challenge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-071, May 2022. View Details
  • Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Jacqueline N. Lane, and Iavor Bojinov. "Virtual Water Coolers: A Field Experiment on the Role of Virtual Interactions on Organizational Newcomer Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-125, May 2021. (Revised February 2023.) View Details
  • Huber, Laura R., Jacqueline N. Lane, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Learning with People Like Me: The Role of Age-Similar Peers on Online Business Course Engagement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-072, December 2020. View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials
Cases and Teaching Materials

  • Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Jacqueline N. Lane. "Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 623-059, February 2023. View Details
All Publications

Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Jackie’s research examines how firms and scientific organizations can leverage open innovation and diversity in perspectives to generate and select novel and high-impact projects and ideas. In her academic work, she has partnered with organizations such as NASA, Harvard Medical School as well as other private high-technology organizations and digital platforms to design and run field experiments to solve their innovation problems and challenges.     

Jackie earned a bachelor’s degree in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton University, an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a PhD from Northwestern University. Most recently, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. Jackie has also worked in sales and trading and equity research at Morgan Stanley and as a finance and operations manager at Microsoft. 

Journal Articles
  • Lane, Jacqueline N. "The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’." Art. 104707. Research Policy 52, no. 3 (April 2023). View Details
  • Lane, Jacqueline N., Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Conservatism Gets Funded? A Field Experiment on the Role of Negative Information in Novel Project Evaluation." Management Science 68, no. 6 (June 2022): 4478–4495. View Details
  • Lane, Jacqueline N., Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?" Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 6 (June 2021). View Details
  • Gomez-Zara, Diego, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor. "Who Would You Like to Work With? Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems." Art. 659. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (May, 2019). View Details
  • Askarisichani, Omid, Jacqueline N. Lane, Francesco Bullo, Noah E. Friedkin, Ambuj K. Singh, and Brian Uzzi. "Structural Balance Emerges and Explains Performance in Risky Decision-Making." Art. 2648. Nature Communications 10 (2019): 1–10. View Details
  • Lane, Jacqueline N., Bruce Ankenman, and Seyed Iravani. "Insight into Gender Differences in STEM: Evidence from Peer Reviews in an Engineering Class." Service Science 10, no. 4 (2018): 442–456. View Details
Working Papers
  • Lane, Jacqueline N. "The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-037, January 2023. View Details
  • Lane, Jacqueline N., Zoe Szajnfarber, Jason Crusan, Michael Menietti, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Are Experts Blinded by Feasibility? Experimental Evidence from a NASA Robotics Challenge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-071, May 2022. View Details
  • Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Jacqueline N. Lane, and Iavor Bojinov. "Virtual Water Coolers: A Field Experiment on the Role of Virtual Interactions on Organizational Newcomer Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-125, May 2021. (Revised February 2023.) View Details
  • Huber, Laura R., Jacqueline N. Lane, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Learning with People Like Me: The Role of Age-Similar Peers on Online Business Course Engagement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-072, December 2020. View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
  • Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Jacqueline N. Lane. "Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 623-059, February 2023. View Details
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