D’Amore-McKim Professors Discuss WannaCry RansomeWare Attack
Four faculty members from D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University recently weighed in the recent “WannaCry” ransomware attack.
Columbia Conference Offers Sneak Peek at Future of Fintech
Columbia Business School announced its Frontiers of Digital Finance conference, sponsored by Deloitte, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, and organized in part by Columbia’s FinTech Club.
MIT Sloan Brings Bitcoin Conference to Campus
The MIT Sloan School of Management has announced that the university’s own Bitcoin Club will host its yearly Expo on March 5 and 6. Bitcoin, for readers who missed out on the Silk Road darknet market controversy of 2013—along with their chance to purchase guns, pharmaceuticals, and data from the comfort of their own home—is an open-source virtual currency, which, according to its official site, “uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks.”
McDonough Professor Critiques BitCoin
Bitcoin, the internet’s first decentralized digital currency and the largest of its kind in terms of total market value, was recently examined at the McDonough School of Business. While Bitcoin is still shrouded in mystery for some, the new currency has made its way into business schools as certain prominent professors’ are beginning to open up on their thoughts on the currency.
