Put Your Head on a Blockchain

Investigating potential role of emerging blockchain technologies.
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Photo: Unto Rautio / Aalto University

Overview

Emerging technologies are like block chains. What are they good for? Am I too late in adopting the technology? What are its disruptive implications? Articulate a point-of-view and experiment with application ideas. Engage in critical discussion about business and societal implications. And finally, present your point-of-view to stakeholder audiences.

Master's level course.

How does this course promote work-life connections?

Visitors from leading technology companies participated in class; Interactive discussions with CEOs and founders and technology experts; View from society provided by a public organization in charge of supporting technological emergence and innovation, Student perspectives presented to external stakeholders.

Teaching methods

Lectures, external visitors' perspectives, digital platform-based group work, generative questioning, and peer evaluation. Assessment is based on team-based performance, presentations & materials (50%) and peer evaluation in teams (50%).

Reach

33 students.

School

Aalto level course, based on Aalto School of Business, Department of Management Studies.

Course code

21E00038 "Put Your Head on a Blockchain" - Strategies for Employing Emergent Technologies for Business and Society

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Liisa Välikangas

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