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How Blockchain Applications Will Move Beyond Finance

Harvard Business Review

Through a clever mix of game theory and cryptography, bitcoin replicates financial systems’ ability to transfer value, but without any of the labor typically involved in running and securing transactions. It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. In the early 1980s, the game theory approach to studying industries promised to be the next big wave in strategy. The Theory of Industrial Organization was just the first.