Blockchain Governance: Challenges and Opportunity for a Decentralized System
from Thursday, June 28, 2018 5:00PM to Thursday, June 28, 2018 7:30PM
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Prysm Group is honored to host Nobel Prize winner Prof. Oliver Hart for a conversation about the challenges and opportunity of building a decentralized system for blockchain governance. The talk will be followed by a full reception with food & drinks. Panelists bios: Prof. Oliver Hart Oliver Hart is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. Hart works mainly on contract theory, the theory of the firm, corporate finance, and law and economics. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations. He has published a book and numerous journal articles. He is the 2016 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has several honorary degrees. He has been president of the American Law and Economics Association and a vice president of the American Economic Association. Dr. Cathy Barrera Dr. Barrera is the Founding Economist of Blockchain Economics & Governance design firm Prysm Group. She is the lead contributor to the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab and the Cryptoeconomics Industry Expert for the upcoming MIT Sloan Executive Education Blockchain course. She has been featured on CNBC, CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post among others. Dr. Barrera is a former Professor of Economics at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. She holds a MSc in Applied Math from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
Harvard Club of New York City
35 West 44th Street New York NY USType: Eventbrite