The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events Specialist
Understand the Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technology
August 11, 2022
2 months, online
4-6 hours per week
Our participants tell us that taking this program together with their colleagues helps to share common language and accelerate impact.
We hope you find the same. Special pricing is available for groups.
The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events SpecialistBased on the information you provided, your team is eligible for a special discount, for Blockchain in Business (Online): Beyond the Hype starting on August 11, 2022 .
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Have questions? Email us at group-enrollments@emeritus.org.Not everyone is a believer in the promise of blockchain. But even naysayers can’t deny there is a considerable amount of investment in this area – and no one wants to be left behind.
The global blockchain technology market is estimated to accumulate $20 billion in revenue by 2024.
Blockchain can reduce 30% of banks’ infrastructure costs, or $12 billion.
who are actively using blockchain believe it plays a key role in advancing the technology.
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies claim the headlines in the media, leaving business leaders with the challenge of distinguishing between what’s hype versus what has the power to transform an entire industry. The Blockchain in Business (Online): Beyond the Hype program allows you to break through the mystery, offering a practical understanding of blockchain by examining both its opportunities and challenges.
Over the course of this program, you will learn how cryptocurrencies work and how the underlying blockchain technology could impact your organization and industry. You’ll delve into the history, evolution, and real-world applications of blockchain with an eye towards how these technologies influence executive decision making.
For full details of the curriculum, please download the brochure.
Learn the foundations of blockchain, including distributed systems, hash functions, and cryptography; includes learning the origin story of the blockchain and building a blockchain with its inventors.
Gain a historical view of money, exploring its traditional place in society and how conventional markets and bitcoin compare.
Explore conceptual precursors to blockchain and discover how “mining” works, along with identifying the vulnerabilities in Bitcoin’s blockchain
Discover the programmable Ethereum ledger system, smart contracts, tokens, decentralized applications, and trustless computing.
Examine the complex issues that surround governance with blockchains including an examination of IBM’s work in permissioned enterprise blockchains.
Gain a “big picture” perspective of blockchain tailored for the executive decision-maker and gain insights from Scott W. Stornetta on where blockchain will be in five to ten years.
Learn the foundations of blockchain, including distributed systems, hash functions, and cryptography; includes learning the origin story of the blockchain and building a blockchain with its inventors.
Discover the programmable Ethereum ledger system, smart contracts, tokens, decentralized applications, and trustless computing.
Gain a historical view of money, exploring its traditional place in society and how conventional markets and bitcoin compare.
Examine the complex issues that surround governance with blockchains including an examination of IBM’s work in permissioned enterprise blockchains.
Explore conceptual precursors to blockchain and discover how “mining” works, along with identifying the vulnerabilities in Bitcoin’s blockchain
Gain a “big picture” perspective of blockchain tailored for the executive decision-maker and gain insights from Scott W. Stornetta on where blockchain will be in five to ten years.
The Blockchain in Business (Online): Beyond the Hype program is ideal for participants from a wide range of industries and backgrounds, including:
Representative job titles may include:
Live Faculty Teaching Sessions
Guest Speakers: Inventors of Blockchain, IBM
Bite-Sized Learning
Dedicated Program Support Team
Real-World Application
Simulation
Peer Learning and Feedback
Mobile Learning App
Grading and Evaluation
Learn about the opportunities and challenges behind blockchain and cryptocurrencies through real-world examples from companies that include IBM, Yugen Partners, and the Prysm Group.
The program includes multiple opportunities to apply the concepts learned. You will:
— Dimitrios Salampasis, Lecturer, FinTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology
— Benjamin Gorman, Artist Representation / Agent, Buchwald
Chief Scientist, Yugen Partners; widely regarded as the co-creator of the first blockchain
PhD, Partner and Founding Economist, Prysm Group
President, Stuart Haber Crypto, LLC; widely regarded as the co-creator of the first blockchain
Blockchain Ecosystem Leader, IBM
Explainer-in-Chief; Author of The Story of the Blockchain: A Beginner’s Guide to the Technology That Nobody Understands
Gur Huberman, Faculty Director
Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance
Gur Huberman has taught at Columbia Business School since 1989. Prior to that, he taught at Tel Aviv University and at the University of Chicago. Between 1993 and 1995, he was Vice President at JP Morgan Investment Management responsible for research on quantitative equity trading. In that capacity, he also helped develop tax aware strategies for the private bank. He earned his PhD in operations research from Yale and his BSc in mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
Professor Huberman’s published work is widely read and cited, and covers a broad range in finance and economics. He contributed to the theory of equilibrium return-risk tradeoff, to the theory of contracts, to the study of individual’s portfolio selection, especially in the context of retirement savings to the theory of liquidity and trading, and to Behavior Finance. More recently he has turned his attention to FinTech and cryptocurrencies.
Upon completion of the program, participants will receive a certificate of participation from Columbia Business School Executive Education and one day towards a Certificate in Business Excellence.
Download BrochureYour verified digital certificate will be issued in your legal name and emailed to you, at no additional cost, upon completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of the Columbia Business School Executive Education.