Scholar
Scott Duke Kominers
Google Scholar ID: YHSRCCsAAAAJ
Professor, Harvard Business School & Department of Economics, Harvard
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,409
H-index
31
i10-index
66
Publications
20
Co-authors
125
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Co-leader of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) 'Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy' working group (MIP). Served as Vice-Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (SIGecom) from 2019-2023. Published extensively in academic journals and practitioner venues including Harvard Business Review and Bloomberg Opinion. Authored a book about NFTs, 'The Everything Token'.
Research Experience
- Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2013-2017. Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School in Spring 2016. Inaugural Saieh Family Fellow in Economics at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago from 2011-2013. Head Tutor of the Harvard Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (PRIMO) in Summer 2011. Non-resident tutor in Kirkland House during graduate school. Affiliated with the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Harvard EconCS Group, and the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business.
Education
- Completed PhD in Business Economics at Harvard University in Spring 2011, with the dissertation 'Matching Models of Markets.' Graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard in Mathematics (with a minor in Ethnomusicology) in Spring 2009, and completed Masters of Arts at Harvard in Spring 2010.
Background
- Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Department of Economics and the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications; a16z crypto Research Partner. Editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics and on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Economic Literature. Advises multiple companies on marketplace and incentive design.
Miscellany
- Enjoys research in economics, mathematics, and musicology, as well as teaching, problem-solving, puzzling, dance, Getting Things Done, haiku, and math rap. Faculty advisor of the Harvard Ballroom Team. Active alumnus of The Center For Excellence in Education's Research Science Institute (RSI) and The Harvard College Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE). Member of the American Economic Association, the Econometric Society, and the Mathematical Association of America.
