Blockchain : the insights you need from Harvard Business Review.

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Uniform title:	Blockchain (Harvard Business Review Press)
Imprint:	Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, [2019]
Description:	xv, 174 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The insights you need from Harvard Business Review Insights you need from Harvard Business Review.
Subject:	Blockchains (Databases) Data encryption (Computer science) Electronic commerce. Financial institutions -- Technological innovations. Blockchains (Databases) Data encryption (Computer science) Electronic commerce. Financial institutions -- Technological innovations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11934877

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Other authors / contributors:	Harvard Business Review Press, issuing body.
ISBN:	9781633697911 1633697916
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Can blockchain solve your biggest business problem? While news outlets are transfixed with Bitcoin's latest swings, your most forward-looking competitors are tuning out the noise and quietly making key bets on blockchain. They're effortlessly tracking every last link in their supply chains. They're making bureaucratic paper trails obsolete while keeping their customers' data safer. And they're imagining new ways to use this next foundational technology to sustain their competitive advantage. What should you be doing right now to ensure that your business is poised for success? These articles by blockchain experts and consultants will help you understand today's most essential thinking on what blockchain is capable of now, how to adopt it in your organization, and how the technology is likely to be used in the near future and beyond. Blockchain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you spearhead important conversations, get going on the right blockchain initiatives in your company, and capitalize on the opportunity of the coming blockchain wave. Catch up on current topics and deepen your understanding of them with the Insights You Need series from Harvard Business Review. Featuring some of HBR's best and most recent thinking, Insights You Need titles are both a primer on today's most pressing issues and an extension of the conversation, with interesting research, interviews, case studies, and practical ideas to help you explore how a particular issue will impact your company and what it will mean for you and your business.--

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Blockchain and the Data Integrity Revolution
Imagine a world in which data can't be corrupted, hacked, or lost
Section 1. Understanding Blockchain
1. The Truth About Blockchain
It will take years to transform business, but the journey begins now
2. A Brief History of Blockchain
It's come a long way in 10 years
3. The Blockchain Will Do to the Financial System What the Internet Did to Media
What we can learn from the evolution of another groundbreaking technology
4. Who Controls the Blockchain?
No one, and everyone, by design
5. How Safe Are Blockchains? It Depends
The security issues are different in public and private networks
6. What Blockchain Can't Do
Someone needs to verify the link between digital records and physical objects
Section 2. Blockchain and Business
7. How Blockchain Is Changing Finance
It could reduce friction and costs
8. As Cryptocurrencies Rise, Who Needs Banks?
It's a tough time to be a middleman
9. Global Supply Chains Are About to Get Better, Thanks to Blockchain
We'll be able to track goods between companies and across borders
10. What Blockchain Means for the Sharing Economy
The role of platforms will become less important
11. How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers
The technology can cut down on spam and fraud
12. Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works
Movie studios and record companies should take note
Section 3. The Future of Blockchain
13. Does Your Idea Actually Require Blockchain?
What Chinese #MeToo activism teaches us about data integrity
14. How Regulation Could Help Cryptocurrencies Grow
Entrepreneurs are sitting on the sidelines for fear of innocently running afoul of the law
15. Using Blockchain to Keep Public Data Public
Information is under attack
16. Blockchain Will Help Us Prove Our Identities in a Digital World
And the benefits will accrue to all rungs of society
17. Making Cryptocurrency More Environmentally Sustainable
In one year, blockchain activity used more power than 159 individual nations
About the Contributors
Index

Blockchain : the insights you need from Harvard Business Review.

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