Rate My Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf is a Professor of Management at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, and a faculty affiliate at Harvard University’s Lab for Innovation Science. Her research focuses on developing an in-depth empirical and theoretical understanding of the micro-foundations of scientific and technological innovation and knowledge creation processes in the digital age. She explores how the ability to innovate is being transformed, as well as the challenges and opportunities this transformation presents for R&D organizations, professionals, and their work. Professor Lifshitz-Assaf conducted an in-depth three-year longitudinal field study of NASA’s experimentation with open innovation online platforms and communities, resulting in a scientific breakthrough. This study received the best dissertation Grigor McClelland Award at the European Group for Organizational Studies in 2015, the Best Administrative Science Quarterly paper award in 2018, and the Best Published Paper award from the organizational communication and information systems division of the Academy of Management in 2018. Her recent studies on the impact of artificial intelligence on managers and physicians in healthcare received the Best Paper Award from the Management Association for Information Systems in 2022 and the Best Paper Award from Management Information Systems Quarterly in 2022. She investigates new forms of organizing to produce scientific and technological innovation, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, crowdsourcing, open source, open online innovation communities, Wikipedia, hackathons, and makeathons. Her work has received the prestigious INSPIRE grant from the National Science Foundation and has been presented and taught at institutions including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, Wharton, London Business School, Bocconi, IESE, UCL, UT Austin, Columbia, and Carnegie Mellon. Her work has been recognized for its strong impact on industry; she received the Industry Studies Association Frank Giarratani Rising Star award and the Industry Research Institute grant for research on R&D. Prior to academia, Professor Lifshitz-Assaf worked as a strategy consultant for seven years, specializing in growth and innovation strategy in telecommunications, consumer goods, and finance. She earned a doctorate from Harvard Business School, an MBA from Tel Aviv University magna cum laude, and a BA in Management and an LLB in Law from Tel Aviv University, both magna cum laude. She heads the Artificial Intelligence Innovation Network Research Center at Warwick Business School.