# Program design

`kaal:entity:program-design`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `program-design`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

4 claims across 3 works, 2017 to 2025.

**2017**

- [3071378-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3071378-019) [mechanism/evidenced] -- Diversity programs fail when managers are defined as the source of the problem and succeed when they engage managers in finding solutions, as with task forces and targeted recruiting.
  > In programs that did not work, managers were often defined as the source of the problem.67 Some of the more successful programs involved task forces and targeted recruiting efforts which engaged the managers in finding solutions.68
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378
- [3071378-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3071378-020) [design/argued] -- Companies should focus more on mentoring programs and less on formal evaluations, because mentorship with a superior manager helped minorities succeed.
  > Mentorship with a superior manager helped minorities to be successful.69 Such success stories seem to suggest companies should focus more on mentoring programs and less on the formal evaluations.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

**2021**

- [3931933-027](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3931933-027) [design/argued] -- Although the Shasper Network itself is permissionless, the SDAO deliberately imposes a prior registration requirement in order to push validator candidates to educate themselves about network requirements and to attend to the documentation.
  > While the Shasper Network is permissionless, in an effort to encourage validator participants to educate themselves about network requirements etc. and to pay more attention to the network and the documentation, the SDAO runs the program with a prior registration requirement.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933

**2025**

- [5583610-007](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5583610-007) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Traditional corporate loyalty programs fail because they saddle issuers with delayed obligations and cannot hold participants without pushing them toward speculation; LER is designed to avoid both defects.
  > It addresses the drawbacks of traditional loyalty programs, which frequently cause businesses to incur delayed obligations and find it difficult to hold onto assets without engaging in hazardous speculation.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Liquid Equity Rewards in Corporate America (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5583610

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/program-design.md | sha256sum

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