# Prof. David Yermack discusses his course on Bitcoin

1 School News February 15, 2015 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/84bd9f02-9b54-11e4-950f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3S0tx35Kq) -- "'We are staking out some academic territory and trying to get the university’s brand associated with a new body of knowledge,' says [David Yermack](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack), the finance professor at New York University’s Stern Business School, whose MBA course, created with law school colleague Geoff Miller, finished before Christmas. 'This is an entrepreneurial venture for us.'"

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