Campbell Harvey
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Campbell Harvey embodies The Visionary through conviction that DeFi represents civilizational rupture in finance, not iteration. The Duke Fuqua professor and DeFi author dismisses conventional fintech as lipstick on a pig, a phrase that signals a mind oriented entirely toward transformative futures rather than incremental gains. Where peers treat disruption as a risk to be managed, Harvey teaches it as the only responsible lens for students and practitioners navigating structural change.
“I want them to be disruptors, not disruptees. This is a highly disruptive technology. It will change finance as we know it.”
“The current wave of fintech is like putting lipstick on a pig. What DeFi is doing is not an incremental improvement — it's building something fresh and new.”
“Finance will not look like it has in the past. We are in the midst of a structural change. A naive extrapolation from the past is not good enough.”
Masters in Business: “Campbell Harvey on the Future of Finance (Podcast)”
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