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  • February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Uniswap: Fighting a Vampire Attack (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Shweta Bagai and Liang Wu
This is the first of a three-case series that explores the challenges faced by Uniswap, a key player in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. Founded by Hayden Adams, the case traces Uniswap's rapid growth from a simple idea inspired by a Reddit post to becoming one... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Crypto Economy; Community; Decentralization; Decentralized Exchange; Decentralized Finance; Open Platforms; Open-source Innovation; Market Distruption; Stablecoin; Vampire Attack; Web3; Token; Digital Platforms; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Technological Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Financial Liquidity; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • July 13, 2023
  • Article

Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Liang Wu
Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has become the fastest downloaded app in history. One of the reasons for this is because it allows users to port over their profiles and follows from the already popular social media platform Instagram, also owned by Meta—a feature... View Details
Keywords: Decentralization; Twitter; Facebook; Instagram; Crypto Economy; Blockchain; Network; Industrial Organization; Competition; Open Innovation; Open Platforms; Open Source Innovation; Social Networks; Social Media; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
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  • Awards

Christer Karlsson Best Paper Award

By: Alan D. MacCormack
Runner-up for the 2019 Christer Karlsson Best Paper Award at the Annual International Product Development Management Conference for “Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Re-Shapes Two-Sided Platforms” with Daniel Trabucchi, Antonella Moretto, and... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

the value of the fund’s assets and secure the retirement benefits for thousands of Cook County’s employees? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-031 Bitfury: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Christian Catalini, MIT Sloan School of Management

  • 07 Nov 2018
  • News

The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

  • 13 Oct 2020
  • News

Can Entrepreneurs Make Mobile Voting Easy and Secure?

  • 27 Feb 2024
  • Cold Call Podcast

How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Shirley Lu; Green Technology
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Dr. Crawford conducts research on innovation in the energy industry, with a special focus on emerging business models. She is developing several cases for the EC course, "21st Century Energy," that specifically examine innovations at the interface of IT and Energy — ... View Details
Keywords: Electricity; Prosumer; Smart Grid; Blockchain; Microgrid; Electric Vehicles; Batteries; Energy Storage; Ride-sharing; Smart Cities; Smart Buildings; Smart Meters; Demand Response; ＂GMOs,＂; Corporate Accountability; Responsibilities To Society; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Competitive Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Research and Development; Leadership; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Europe; Asia; United States
  • April 2022
  • Case

Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash

By: Sunil Gupta, Linda A. Hill, Julia Kelley and Emily Tedards
In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal “Ajay” Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for continued success in the years to come. Since Mastercard’s initial public offering in 2006, the company had grown and... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Leadership; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Change; Change Management; Money; Cash; Credit; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Central Banking; Financial Instruments; Credit Cards; Financial Markets; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US)
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  • September 24, 2021
  • Article

A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy

By: Li Jin, Scott Duke Kominers and Lila Shroff
Platforms are fundamentally changing the contract between workers and companies—and the workers and creatives that create value for platform companies, and rely on platforms for their livelihoods, often have little power when it comes to getting their concerns... View Details
Keywords: Gig Workers; Decentralized Collective Action; Internet and the Web; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Digital Platforms
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  • 23 Feb 2022
  • News

Can WEB3 Bring Back Competition to Digital Platforms?

    Feng Zhu

    Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

    • Article

    The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Ramana Nanda
    In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin... View Details
    Keywords: Initial Coin Offerings; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Finance
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    • February 2023
    • Supplement

    Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive

    By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
    norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizations; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Banking Industry; Information Technology Industry; Sweden; Europe; Singapore; London; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Middle East; Athens; Greece
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    • September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
    • Case

    Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

    By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma
    In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Information Technology; Ownership; Social Psychology; Trust; Society; Biotechnology Industry; South America; Amazon Basin
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    • September 2017 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    Dianrong: Marketplace Lending, Blockchain, and 'The New Finance' in China

    By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Anthony K. Woo
    This case examines the strategic positioning of Dianrong, one of the largest online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms in China, in its attempt to become a foundational player in the expansion of the FinTech sector in Asia. Dianrong had recently announced the... View Details
    Keywords: Financing and Loans; Internet and the Web; Supply Chain; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Competition; Product Positioning; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China
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    • 11 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

    followed by upward revisions in expectations of risk, suggesting that these expectations may not be rational. Harvard Business School Case 818-097 AirFox (A): Embracing the Blockchain and an ICO In summer 2017, Victor Santos, CEO of... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Club Conferences - MBA

    Blockchain & Crypto Conference Blockchain & Crypto Club April 20, 2025 Infrastructure Club Conference Infrastructure Club April 26, 2024 Real Estate Conference Real Estate Club April 27, 2025 LatAm Business... View Details
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    next decade — AI, Blockchain and Synthetic Biology — and examine their impact on who we are as individuals and as a species. 2024 Spring Reunions—May 30-June 2, 2024 During the 2024 Spring Reunions on May 31 and June 1, HBS faculty will... View Details