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- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
30. These results are starker for tokens with lower market cap, where there are fewer alternative sources of information to help protect investors against bad investment decisions. "If you took one of these cases and fined the individual...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
wallets, track engagement, and manage tokens via blockchain within its own brand ecosystem. Within six months, trivia participants earned more than 2 million tokens and redeemed more than 1,000 rewards. Even...
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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...
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by Rachel Layne
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
“These competitive pressures are potentially making people who are already represented in very small numbers put themselves in situations where they may not succeed in the future,” says Chang, noting that further research is needed to know whether choosing to be a...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
design—to help clients no matter what their business happens to be. As a result, they have become highly skilled at explaining the finer points of contract theory and incentive design to executives who want to mint their own cryptocurrency View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
communities, according to Wu. A ‘’utility token’’ draws in a community from Day 1, supporting projects through engineering, quality assurance, marketing, and sales. Tokens are distributed to stakeholders for their contributions and give...
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April White
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
the underlying frameworks in Miami and the patterns of inclusion or exclusion, so that others in her situation can succeed, too.” Here’s a look at some of the barriers these women faced—as well as how they overcame them to find success. Numbers: The burden of View Details
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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by HBS News
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
freeze up.” David Wittenburg, from his vantage point as a “former numismatist,” suggested that such currencies “arise in times of need (e.g., tokens when official currency is scarce) and they disappear when government offers a better...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving, which will both complement and...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
chain, the harder it is to alter. Blockchains’ transparent and tamper-proof architecture enables anyone to verify and audit transactions independently without needing to trust a third party. INDIVIDUAL BLOCKS LINKED TOGETHER TO FORM A BLOCKCHAIN View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
inalienable rights, may not be an added power to hold us at bay?") “Depending heavily on token women could be problematic” The rhetoric surrounding Obama vs. Clinton was reminiscent of that dynamic, Giddings said. "We keep falling into...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
in on his market. Half a century later the whole U.S. auto industry made the same mistake: Enter the Japanese. But denial comes in many forms, as Sears, Digital Equipment, and Bear Stearns can attest. Heart of Darkness: Business Tokens of...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Uncorked
“they needed a token broad” — with Scott Paper Company, where, among other things, she made an advertising breakthrough: getting an ad for sanitary napkins on television for the first time. Recalled McClelland, “We couldn’t run it before...
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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 219-057 Fluidity In December 2018, the blockchain startup Fluidity was about to participate in its first tokenization deal, which would create digital...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist and hit a total market cap of...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
Bitcoin turned 10 this year, with the currency’s creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, mining the first 50 tokens in January 2009. Yet the cryptocurrency space still feels undefined—a result of both its impenetrability and its...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
Francisco Bay; dressed in Prada and Manolo’s; and had the token perfect child at home with a nanny. How times have changed in ten years. I now sheepishly drive a grimy, carbon-coughing Suburban and shop at Target. My primary professional...
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- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
customers and their business. One of their main claims to fame, and what they focused on with tokenization and Apple Pay, is their ability to keep things secure by heavily encrypting the data passing through their devices and systems. If...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
Web3—encompassing a wide range of technologies, including blockchain networks, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and smart contracts—to give users more ownership of their data and content, reshape commerce and the internet,...
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Jennifer Gillespie