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With Oliver Hart (Nobel Prize winning economist & Prof. Economics @ Harvard University) & Cathy Barrera (Co-Founder & Chief Economist, Prysm Group).
Thu, Jun 28, 2018 @ 06:00 PM   $150   Harvard Club NYC, 35 W 44th St
 
   
 
 
              

    
 
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Prysm Group is honored to host Nobel Prize winner Prof. Oliver Hart for a conversation aboutthe challenges & 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, & law & economics. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure & contractual arrangements play in the governance & boundaries of corporations. He has published a book & 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 & Sciences, the British Academy, & 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 & Economics Association & a vice president of the American Economic Association.
Dr. Cathy Barrera
Dr. Barrera is the co-founder & Chief Economist of the Blockchain Economics & Governance design firm Prysm Group. She is the lead writer for the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab & 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 & a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
 
 
 
 
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