Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: Oscar Sequels From Another Dimension

Killing time before tonight’s Academy Awards? Identify 14 Oscar-worthy flicks and figure out how we’ve modified their titles.

April 25, 2021 at 12:00 PM UTC

By Scott Duke Kominers

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.

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