Stuart School of Business
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program
MBA 534
Blockchain
Every second of every day, businesses exchange value with suppliers, partners, customers, and others. By value, we mean goods, services, money, data, and more. Each exchange of value is a transaction. Successful transactions need to be fast, precise, and easily agreed on by parties participating in the transaction. Blockchain for business provides a way to execute many more of these transactions—a much better way.
Blockchain is an open, distributed ledger technology that establishes trust, transparency, and accountability in transactional business processes by creating a shared system of record among business network members, eliminating the need to reconcile disparate ledgers. Data associated with every event or transaction is time stamped, appended to the record preceding it, and available to authorized participants in real time, shifting the lens from disparate bits of information held by different owners to an always up-to-date, lifetime history of data related to a person, place, or thing. Blockchain can do for business what the internet did for communication.
The course also gives students the opportunity to earn a globally recognized IBM digital badge in blockchain.
This course is open to undergraduates and graduate students.
PREREQUISITE(S): None
LECTURE: 3 LAB: 0 CREDITS: 3