Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: Can You Escape This Column?

This column is an escape room, and clues could be hidden anywhere.

April 11, 2021 at 12:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

Look, touch, decipher, escape.
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I have not been inside an escape room for quite some time, but I am very much looking forward to it. There’s something special about testing your wits against a succession of mysterious puzzles — typically, with the added challenge that you have to uncover those puzzles and their purpose for yourself. (And there’s the added intensity that comes from the fact that you’re stuck inside until the puzzles reveal the escape mechanism!)