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      • October 2023
      • Article

      Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement

      By: David Delacrétaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
      Current refugee resettlement processes account for neither the preferences of refugees nor the priorities of hosting communities. We introduce a new framework for matching with multidimensional knapsack constraints that captures the (possibly multidimensional) sizes of...  View Details
      Keywords: Refugee Resettlement; Matching; Matching Markets; Matching Platform; Matching With Contracts; Algorithms; Refugees; Market Design
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      Delacrétaz, David, Scott Duke Kominers, and Alexander Teytelboym. "Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement." American Economic Review 113, no. 10 (October 2023): 2689–2717.
      • July 13, 2023
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      Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media

      By: Scott Duke Kominers and Liang Wu
      Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has become the fastest downloaded app in history. One of the reasons for this is because it allows users to port over their profiles and follows from the already popular social media platform Instagram, also owned by Meta—a feature...  View Details
      Keywords: Decentralization; Twitter; Facebook; Instagram; Crypto Economy; Blockchain; Network; Industrial Organization; Competition; Open Innovation; Open Platforms; Open Source Innovation; Social Networks; Social Media; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, and Liang Wu. "Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (July 13, 2023).
      • May 2023
      • Case

      Twitter Blues: Does Paid Verification Check Out?

      By: Scott Duke Kominers, Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
      Elon Musk proposes to offer verification status on Twitter to paying subscribers. Chaos ensues.  View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Social Media; Technology Industry
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, Das Narayandas, and Kerry Herman. "Twitter Blues: Does Paid Verification Check Out?" Harvard Business School Case 523-106, May 2023.
      • April 2023
      • Teaching Note

      Bored Ape Yacht Club: Navigating the NFT World (A)

      By: Das Narayandas, Scott Duke Kominers and Kerry Herman
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 822-065.  View Details
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      Narayandas, Das, Scott Duke Kominers, and Kerry Herman. "Bored Ape Yacht Club: Navigating the NFT World (A)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 523-083, April 2023.
      • April 6, 2023
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      A New NFT Launch Strategy: The Wave Mint

      By: Scott Duke Kominers and 1337 Skulls Sers
      In an NFT project, the mint—the process by which tokens are initially allocated—largely determines who your community is and how they and the broader market view the project going forward. In this piece, we review a new minting strategy recently introduced by 1337...  View Details
      Keywords: NFTs; Mechanism Design; Sales Management; Sales Model; Crypto Economy; Non-fungible Tokens; Networks; Product Launch; Auctions; Market Design
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, and 1337 Skulls Sers. "A New NFT Launch Strategy: The Wave Mint." a16zcrypto.com (April 6, 2023).
      • April 5, 2023
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      We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID

      By: Esther K. Choo and Scott Duke Kominers
      With millions of people affected and at least $1 trillion of economic value at stake, long COVID is our next national health emergency.  View Details
      Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; COVID-19 Pandemic; Scientific Research; Policy; Health Policy; Innovation; Science; Public Finance; Public Health; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital
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      Choo, Esther K., and Scott Duke Kominers. "We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID." Scientific American (website) (April 5, 2023).
      • March 2023
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      Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries

      By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
      The chief principle of antitrust law and theory is that reducing market concentration—having more, smaller firms instead of fewer, bigger ones—reduces anticompetitive behavior. We demonstrate that this principle is fundamentally incomplete.

      In many...  View Details
      Keywords: Antitrust; Antitrust Law; Antitrust Theory; Law And Economics; Collusion; Collaboration; Collaborative Industries; Regulation; "Repeated Games"; IPOs; Initial Public Offerings; Underwriters; Real Estate; Real Estate Agents; Realtors; Syndicated Markets; Syndication; Brokers; Market Concentration; Competition; Law; Economics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Game Theory; Initial Public Offering
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      Barry, Jordan M., John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, and Richard Lowery. "Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries." Iowa Law Review 108, no. 3 (March 2023): 1089–1148.
      • January 12, 2023
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      Progressive Decentralization: A High-level Framework

      By: Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers
      We explain a high-level framework for designing for future decentralization up front, and offer some guidance about when and how to do so. The guidelines apply to both web3 projects and more traditional organizations.  View Details
      Keywords: Crypto Economy; Cryptocurrency; Decentralization; Decentralized Autonomous Organizations; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Management; Organization Behavior; Organization And Management Theory; Organization Form; Organizational Structure
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      Esber, Jad, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Progressive Decentralization: A High-level Framework." a16zcrypto.com (January 12, 2023).
      • December 7, 2022
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      Why Decentralized Crypto Platforms Are Weathering the Crash

      By: Shai Bernstein and Scott Duke Kominers
      In the past year, crypto markets dropped from $2.9 trillion in value to around $800 billion. In the wake of the collapse, crypto lenders and exchanges have been accused of fraud and other wrongdoing. What went wrong? One factor is competition. In theory, competition...  View Details
      Keywords: Crypto Economy; Cryptocurrency; Financial Complexity; Financial Crisis; Decentralization; Decentralized Markets; Decentralized Autonomous Organizations; Finance; Market Design; Financial Services Industry
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      Bernstein, Shai, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Why Decentralized Crypto Platforms Are Weathering the Crash." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (December 7, 2022).
      • Winter 2022
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      Distributing a Billion Vaccines: COVAX Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities

      By: Eric Budish, Hannah Kettler, Scott Duke Kominers, Erik Osland, Canice Prendergast and Andrew A. Torkelson
      By January 2022, the COVAX international vaccine collaboration had allocated over a billion vaccines to over 140 countries. We describe and review the allocation process chosen, which reflected both an objective of equitably distributing vaccines across the world and...  View Details
      Keywords: Vaccines; Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Distribution; Supply Chain; Equality and Inequality
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      Budish, Eric, Hannah Kettler, Scott Duke Kominers, Erik Osland, Canice Prendergast, and Andrew A. Torkelson. "Distributing a Billion Vaccines: COVAX Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 38, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 941–974.
      • Winter 2022
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      Vaccines and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Failure and Success

      By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Tabarrok
      The losses from the global COVID-19 pandemic have been staggering—trillions in economic costs, on top of significant losses of life, health, and well-being. The world made significant and successful investments in vaccines to mitigate the pandemic, yet there were...  View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Market Design; Health Pandemics; Loss; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Crisis Management
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alex Tabarrok. "Vaccines and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Failure and Success." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 38, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 719–741.
      • 2022
      • Editorial

      It’s Time to Redouble and Refocus Our Efforts to Fight COVID, Not Retreat

      By: Kathleen Bachynski, Brian C. Castrucci, Esther K. Choo, Ranu Dhillon, Jim Downs, Lakshmi Ganapathi, Gregg Gonsalves, Abraar Karan, Richard C. Keller, Scott Duke Kominers, Jonathan Levy, Martha Lincoln, Seth Prins, Julia Raifman and Anne Sosin
      Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; COVID-19 Pandemic; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Vaccination; Health Policy; Health Pandemics; Government and Politics; United States
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      Bachynski, Kathleen, Brian C. Castrucci, Esther K. Choo, Ranu Dhillon, Jim Downs, Lakshmi Ganapathi, Gregg Gonsalves, Abraar Karan, Richard C. Keller, Scott Duke Kominers, Jonathan Levy, Martha Lincoln, Seth Prins, Julia Raifman, and Anne Sosin. "It’s Time to Redouble and Refocus Our Efforts to Fight COVID, Not Retreat." o2423. BMJ: British Medical Journal 379 (2022).
      • September 10, 2022
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      NFT Sales: Clearing the Market, Avoiding Gas Wars

      By: Scott Duke Kominers and Tim Roughgarden
      Instead of letting the market decide the price for their primary sale offerings, many NFT projects choose to initially sell their NFTs at prices below the market-clearing level. But what happens when market designers trade off efficiency for equity; or when demand far...  View Details
      Keywords: Blockchain; Crypto Economy; Cryptocurrency; NFTs; Auctions; Market Design; Price
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, and Tim Roughgarden. "NFT Sales: Clearing the Market, Avoiding Gas Wars." a16zcrypto.com (September 10, 2022).
      • August 2022
      • Teaching Note

      LooksRare: The Decentralized, Tokenized, NFT Marketplace

      By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Scott Duke Kominers and George Gonzalez
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 822-119.  View Details
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      Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Scott Duke Kominers, and George Gonzalez. "LooksRare: The Decentralized, Tokenized, NFT Marketplace." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 823-046, August 2022.
      • August 2022
      • Case

      SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO

      By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
      In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to...  View Details
      Keywords: NFTs; Crypto Economy; Alternative Assets; DAOs; Arts; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Finance; Currency; Investment; Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Market Design; Market Transactions; Market Timing; Web Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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      Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Scott Duke Kominers, and Amy Klopfenstein. "SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO." Harvard Business School Case 823-027, August 2022.
      • August 3, 2022
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      Why NFT Creators Are Going cc0

      By: and Scott Duke Kominers Flashrekt
      Strategies for building brands, communities, and content through intellectual property (IP) vary greatly across NFT projects. Some maintain more or less standard IP protections; others give just NFT owners rights to innovate upon the associated intellectual property;...  View Details
      Keywords: Non-fungible Tokens; NFTs; Video Games; Merchandising; Creative Commons; Intellectual Property
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      Flashrekt, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Why NFT Creators Are Going cc0." a16zcrypto.com (August 3, 2022).
      • July 28, 2022
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      DAO Governance Attacks, and How to Avoid Them

      By: Pranav Garimidi, Scott Duke Kominers and Tim Roughgarden
      Many web3 projects embrace permissionless voting using a fungible and tradable native token. Permissionless voting can offer many benefits, from lowering barriers to entry to increasing competition. Token holders can use their tokens to vote on a range of issues—from...  View Details
      Keywords: Crypto Economy; Cryptocurrency; Governance; Voting; Decentralized Autonomous Organizations; Organizational Structure; Digital Platforms
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      Garimidi, Pranav, Scott Duke Kominers, and Tim Roughgarden. "DAO Governance Attacks, and How to Avoid Them." a16zcrypto.com (July 28, 2022).
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      Metaverse Land: What Makes Digital Real Estate Valuable

      By: Scott Duke Kominers
      Keywords: Crypto Economy
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      Kominers, Scott Duke. "Metaverse Land: What Makes Digital Real Estate Valuable." a16zcrypto.com (June 2, 2022).
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      Why Build in Web3

      By: Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers
      A major change is coming to the internet. While today’s dominant platforms have guarded their troves of user data and maintained an advantage through network effects, new companies—working in what they're calling a “Web3” model—are proposing a new value proposition to...  View Details
      Keywords: Blockchain; User Experience; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Internet and the Web; Competition; Web Services Industry
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      Esber, Jad, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Why Build in Web3." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 16, 2022).
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      Why One Little Goof Drove Wordle Fans Nuts

      By: Scott Duke Kominers
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      Kominers, Scott Duke. "Why One Little Goof Drove Wordle Fans Nuts." Bloomberg Opinion (May 11, 2022).
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