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    An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes

    The advent of cryptocurrencies and digital assets holds the promise of improving financial systems by offering cheap, quick, and secure transfer of value. However, it also opens up new payment channels for cybercrimes. Assembling a diverse set of public on- and... View Details
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    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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    An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes

    By: Will Cong, Campbell Harvey, Daniel Rabetti and Zong-Yu Wu
    The advent of cryptocurrencies and digital assets holds the promise of improving financial systems by offering cheap, quick, and secure transfer of value. However, it also opens up new payment channels for cybercrimes. Assembling a diverse set of public on- and... View Details
    Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Crime and Corruption; Technology Adoption; Currency; Policy
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      Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

      This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers.... View Details

        International Business and Decentralized Finance

        Over the last decade, the green shoots of a new economic order have emerged as decentralized technologies challenge traditional financial systems. Decentralized finance (DeFi) holds the potential to transform international business (IB) by offering accessible... View Details
        • September 2017 (Revised June 2019)
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        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
        • 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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        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
        • September 2024
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        The Human Side of the Future of Work: Understanding the Role People Play in Shaping a Changing World

        By: Jochen I. Menges, Lauren C. Howe, Erika Hall, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Sharon K. Parker, Riki Takeuchi, Abhijeet K. Vadera, Ashley Whillans and Susan K. Cohen
        For as long as there has been work, there has been a “future of work,” through humans’ ingenuity and drive to get things done easier, faster, and better. With the industrial revolution, efforts to shape a better future of work were dominated by improvements in... View Details
        Keywords: Change; Labor
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          Daniel Rabetti

          Professor Rabetti is a financial economist from São Paulo, Brazil, with a Ph.D. in Business from Tel Aviv University. He joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School in 2023 as the S. Dhanabalan Chair in Quantitative Studies and an Assistant... View Details

          • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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          Acelerex

          By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
          In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
          Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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          • 01 Mar 2024
          • News

          Unlocking the Power of Community

          When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach... View Details
          Keywords: April White
          • 23 Apr 2024
          • In Practice

          Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

          With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
          Keywords: by Rachel Layne
          • 01 Mar 2024
          • News

          Leading Businesses in a Web3 World

          Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg Web3 is poised to transform everything we do online by decentralizing and democratizing the internet. That transformation is already underway in the business world: built on blockchain technology that offers increased security and... View Details
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          Profiles - MBA

          technology and business: In 2021, I became fascinated with Web3 and joined BULB, an Australian crypto-based blogging platform, that allows users to "write-to-earn“ and "read-to-earn.“ I gained valuable skills in blockchain development and... View Details
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          2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

          More Info – Less Info This modified case discussion does not require pre-reading. Web3 has come for government. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies have wound their way into public services. DAOs and NFTs have arrived on the... View Details
          • 01 Mar 2024
          • News

          Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

          president of Ava Labs, a Web3 company that helps traditional businesses use crypto-based innovations in their products. When he was a student at HBS, Wu couldn’t have imagined such a business. Ava Labs built the blockchain network,... View Details
          Keywords: April White
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          Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

          more than a dozen case studies on fintech, higher education, platform competition, remote work, global talent, and blockchain finance for the MBA curriculum and Executive Education programs. Additionally, she served as an IT project... View Details