Magnus van Haaren

Teaching / supervision / materials

Teaching organizational judgment.

I use organizational theory, live cases, and structured debate to help students evaluate emerging technologies and make defensible decisions about governance, coordination, and innovation.

MSc course · BMME187 · 2022–2025

Managing Innovation in the Agentic Web Economy

An RSM elective for MSc Innovation Management and Business Information Management. Students move from Web3 foundations and blockchain governance to DAOs, autonomous AI, and the metaverse—then apply those ideas to organizational design and value creation. I developed the syllabus and assessment. The course used the title Managing Innovation in the Web3 Era before its 2025 iteration.

Blockchain governanceTokenizationDAOsAutonomous AIMetaverse
Level
Master’s elective
Role
Teaching & course design
Programmes
Innovation Management · Business Information Management

Course design

Theory has to survive contact with a decision.

01

Viv8 LiveCase

A five-week simulation in which students navigate platform governance, community management, and digital-asset decisions as the situation evolves.

02

Weekly debates

Structured arguments, rebuttals, cross-examination, and audience questions turn contested technology choices into a practice of judgment.

03

Second Me

Students build a personal AI agent, document how it learns their decision values, and reflect on autonomy, competence, and organizational design.

MSc supervision

From a promising question to a defensible contribution.

I supervise RSM master’s research, including work on decentralized autonomous agents and organizations. Quantitative and qualitative projects follow the same principle: make the reasoning visible early enough to improve it.

Master’s thesis supervision

Topics sit at the intersection of emerging technology, strategy, governance, and organizational design.

A practical supervision rhythm

  1. 01

    Frame — common ground, complication, concern, and research question.

  2. 02

    Design — contribution, theory, hypotheses or phenomenon, methods, and data.

  3. 03

    Test — analysis, interpretation, robustness, and alternative explanations.

  4. 04

    Write — conclusions, contribution, limitations, and a coherent final argument.

Selected readings

A useful place to begin.

A small public shelf for students and researchers working on organizational design, decentralized governance, and AI.

Selected reading & data

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Can Decision Structures Enhance Participation?HICSS 2025 paper · decision structures and participationReducing the Impact of MisalignmentAOM Proceedings abstract · Chicago 2024Humans and Algorithms in OrganizationsAOM symposium · blockchain, AI, and coordinationWeb3 DecentralizationAOM symposium · governance and participationDAO voting data & codeOpen research materials · GitHub