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Life's Work: John Cleese
Cleese, John; Ignatius, AdiArticle HBS-R1403M-EThe comic icon shares his thoughts on creativity, corporate humor, and how the team behind Monty Python made decisions.Starting at €8.20
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"We Need People to Lean into the Future"
McMillon, Doug; Ignatius, AdiArticle HBS-R1702F-EFor years, Walmart's unrivaled customer research capabilities helped it dominate retailing. Then along came the internet, and Walmart suddenly found itself playing catchup to e-commerce pioneers like Amazon. In 2014 the board appointed Doug McMillon as CEO and gave him an imperative: Bring Walmart into the future--without sacrificing its longtime strengths. McMillon, who began his career unloading trucks at a neighborhood Walmart, respects tradit...Starting at €8.20
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"Don't Try to Protect the Past"
Rometty, Ginni; Ignatius, AdiArticle HBS-R1704K-EGinni Rometty has spent 36 years at IBM, where she now serves as president, CEO, and chairman of the board. She is on a protracted mission to reinvent the company as a cloud-based "solutions" business. That transformation involves moving into areas that have higher value and shedding ones that don't. IBM's new businesses around cloud, data, and security account for almost $34 billion in revenue. They're growing by more than 13% a year and constit...Starting at €8.20
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"Businesses Exist to Deliver Value to Society."
Frazier, Kenneth; Ignatius, AdiArticle HBS-R1802E-ELeadership and People ManagementOne of only a handful of African-American CEOs in the Fortune 500, Frazier gained widespread attention when he withdrew from President Trump's business advisory council after the events of August 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He says, "I didn't see this as a political issue. It's an issue that goes to our fundamental values as a country." Frazier grew up in the inner city, in a household that valued education highly. He was fortunate, he say...Starting at €8.20
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"Managers Don't Have All the Answers"
Dimon, Jamie; Ignatius, AdiArticle HBS-R1804K-EDimon has been at the helm of JPMorgan Chase, the biggest bank in the United States, for more than 12 years. A straight-talking guy from Queens (albeit a billionaire with an MBA from Harvard Business School), he has led the bank on a steady path of growth, having weathered both the 2008 financial crisis and the "London Whale" trading scandal. Dimon calls that latter episode "the stupidest and most embarrassing situation I have ever been a part of...Starting at €8.20
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Emerging from the Crisis
Scoblic, J. Peter; Ignatius, Adi; Kessler, DavidArticle HBS-R2004B-EKnowledge and Communicationmeaning.Starting at €8.20
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It Will Need to Be the Most Amazing Thing Humankind Has Ever Done
Gates, Bill; Ignatius, AdiArticle HBS-R2102K-ELeadership and People Managementrising temperatures, the disappearance of ecosystems, disastrous crop failures, economic pain, and massive loss of life.Starting at €8.20
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Emilio Sastre
Gallo, Miguel Ángel; Mozo, EnriqueCase DG-1007-EStrategyThis case describes some of the directions taken by an MED student in the first few years of his career, following his incorporation into a family group of companies. It explains the process by which he joins the group, the problems he faces with an established manager who he has to work with, his "inclusion" in the family and in the higher levels of power, the birth of his "psychological contract" with the company, and its subsequent repercussio...Starting at €8.20
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Grupo Velázquez
Mozo, Enrique; Gallo, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1241-EStrategyThe founder of the Velázquez family group achieved an extraordinary level of development for its companies over a period of almost 30 years. But his devotion to the businesses was in detriment to the time and effort spent on bringing up his three children. On the founder's death, his children inherited the group, and one of them, Lorenzo, took over its executive management. Lorenzo continued to manage the family business with a certain degree of...Starting at €8.20
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"I Try to Spark New Ideas"
Lagarde, Christine; Ignatius, AdiArticle HBS-R1311J-EAt 57, Christine Lagarde has held top jobs in government, in the private sector, and now at a big global institution, the International Monetary Fund, where she became managing director in 2011. It was a doubly challenging time to take the helm: Lagarde's predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was embroiled in scandal, and the global economy remained in dire straits. In this interview with HBR's editor in chief, Lagarde talks about what it takes to...Starting at €8.20