BY Anastassia GliadkovskayaSeptember 07, 2022, 1:21 PM
Illustration by Martin Laksman
Few sectors are as volatile as cryptocurrency. In the last year, the value of digital currencies surged and then plummeted, eventually imploding with a widely reported market crash, layoffs and losses. Despite the uncertainty, academic interest in the sector hasn’t waned, professors say.
“The price of crypto is going up, going down; the interest does not correlate with that,” says Gregory LaBlanc, who is a lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and the University of California—Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. “Crypto is one of those things that people think they need to know about if they want to be an educated person in today’s business world.”
And crypto is no longer niche. Businesses across the board, from legacy banks to sectors beyond finance, are increasingly exploring crypto options. As a result,…
