Blockchain Systems and Their Potential Impact on Business Processes.

Blockchain technologies introduce fundamental changes in the mechanisms for verifying identity, transferring wealth, securing records, and tracing the movement of assets. The technology is poised to profoundly affect business processes and models in industry, government, and the social sector. Because graduating business students are likely to work in businesses that deploy or interact with blockchain and blockchain-related technologies, business programs must prepare them by introducing the intellectual foundations of this emerging technology and the operating practices it enables. This paper introduces a paper-based assignment designed to provide students this valuable opportunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]