1. What might taking a stance against his CEO mean for Ankit's career at Ivory Tower and beyond? (can from case or personal idea) 60-100 words

  

Ankits deputy Case Study Should We Embrace Crypto? by Charles C.Y. Wang HBR's fictionalized case studies present problems faced by leaders in real companies and offer solutions from experts. This one is based on the HBS Case Study "Accounting for Bitcoin at Tesla' (case no 121074-PDF-ENG), by Charles CY. Wang and Siyu Zhang, which is available at HBR.org THE PHONE BUZZED on the nightstand-once, twice, three times-waking Ankit Jain from what had been a restful sleep. Before he could reach the phone, three more texts came through. He knew who it would be: his boss, Thorsten Konig, the CEO of Ivory Tower, the world's leading online education platform. In Sun Valley talking crypto. It's time. Payments + investment.. How fast can we do it? Pls call ASAP to discuss. Bring in Shira and Paul. Ankit sighed. Thorsten was a brilliant technologist who had started and sold DayTradz, one of the first online retail trading platforms, before he was even 30. Ivory Tower was his second, also hugely successful, venture-one that was disrupting higher edu- cation by offering high-quality college and graduate-school courses to students around the world. Some, such as the intro to economics class taught by a Nobel Prize winner donating his time, were extremely affordable, while others, such as classes on personal branding with Kris Jen- ner and on M&A with Carl Icahn, were obscenely expensive. The idea was to have the platform's wealthiest users subsidize its poorest. The impact Ivory Tower