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What Is Web3?
Stackpole, ThomasArticle HBS-H070UE-EInformation TechnologiesWeb3 is being touted as the future of the internet. The vision for this new, blockchain-based web includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized finance, and more. It offers a read/write/own version of the web, in which users have a financial stake in and more control over the web communities they belong to. Web3 promises to transform the experience of being online as dramatically as PCs and smartphones did. It is not, however, without risk...Starting at €8.20
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The Vulnerability Economy: Zero-Days, Cybersecurity, and Public Policy
Narayanamurti, Venkatesh; Ellis, RyanCase HBS-KS1013-EInformation TechnologiesIn 2011, Dillon Beresford, a computer security expert, discovered a series of new vulnerabilities impacting components of widely used industrial control systems. These new, previously unknown vulnerabilities-what are known as "zero-days"-were potentially very serious. Zero-day vulnerabilities are key components of computer viruses, worms, and other forms of malware. Vendors and security firms seek these flaws in order to patch and fix insecure so...Starting at €8.20
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The Vulnerability Economy: Zero-Days, Cybersecurity, and Public Policy Epilogue
Narayanamurti, Venkatesh; Ellis, RyanCase HBS-KS1014-EInformation TechnologiesThis epilogue accompanies case 2029.0. In 2011, Dillon Beresford, a computer security expert, discovered a series of new vulnerabilities impacting components of widely used industrial control systems. These new previously unknown vulnerabilities-what are known as "zero-days"-were potentially very serious. Zero-day vulnerabilities are key components of computer viruses, worms, and other forms of malware. Vendors and security firms seek these flaws...Starting at €8.20
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Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces
Fisman, Ray; Luca, MichaelArticle HBS-R1612G-EInformation TechnologiesOnline marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for participants to discriminate. But as listings began to include photos, names, and other means of identification, bias emerged in areas ranging from labor markets to credit applications to hous...Starting at €8.20
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Cautionary Tales from Cryptoland
Stackpole, ThomasArticle HBS-H071AM-EInformation TechnologiesWeb3 is off to a rocky start. Optimists may rattle on about progress on the horizon, but at present the space is rife with fraud, hacks, and collapses. In this Q&A with Web3 critic Molly White, creator of the website Web3 Is Going Just Great, White argues that as this technology becomes more mainstream, its ability to do harm - financial, emotional, and reputational - will grow, and fast. For one, blockchain technology is often applied in ways, o...Starting at €8.20
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The Vulnerability Economy: Zero-Days, Cybersecurity, and Public Policy, Teaching Note
Narayanamurti, Venkatesh; Ellis, RyanTeaching Note HBS-KS1120-EInformation TechnologiesTeaching note for KS1013.Starting at €0.00