Scott Kominers

Scott Kominers is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a faculty affiliate of Harvard's Department of Economics, and a research partner at a16z crypto, where he focuses on market and incentive design, tokenomics, and platform strategy. A market design economist by training, he earned his PhD in business economics from Harvard in 2011 and co-leads Harvard's Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab. He co-authored The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create with Steve Kaczynski, and has written extensively for Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg Opinion. He also advises companies and web3 projects on marketplace and incentive design and is an active participant in NFT communities, including as a puzzle artist.

10 talks by Scott Kominers

• Why Auction Design Matters (ft. Nobel Economist Paul Milgrom)
• Why Markets Fail — and How to Fix Them (ft. Nobel Economist Alvin Roth)
• AI Has a Memory Problem. Crypto Might Fix It
• State of web3 research
• Conversation on incentives with Tim Roughgarden, Scott Kominers, and Pranav Garimidi
• Pricing Strategy for Startups
• ep 3 – Auction Design for web3
• ep 5 – Puzzles (& Crypto)
• Intro to intellectual property for web3 | Scott Kominers
• Web3 business strategy | Scott Kominers