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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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"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
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"I Came Back Because the Company Needed Me"
Yuanqing, Yang; Ignatius, AdiArticle HBS-R1407J-EYang assumed the reins at Lenovo (formerly known as Legend) in 2001, when the company's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, moved on to become chairman. He served as CEO for three years before succeeding Liu as chairman, and he and Liu engineered the stunning 2005 acquisition of IBM's personal computer business, which suddenly made Lenovo the world's third-largest computer maker. In 2009, after the company had begun to falter during the global recession, the ...Starting at €8.20
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How Indra Nooyi Turned Design Thinking Into Strategy: An Interview with PepsiCo's CEO
Nooyi, Indra; Ignatius, AdiArticle HBS-R1509F-EStrategyPepsiCo's CEO Indra Nooyi believes that each PepsiCo product must engage customers so directly and personally that they fall in love with it. So in 2012 she hired renowned designer Mauro Porcini as PepsiCo's first chief design officer. What Nooyi calls "design thinking" now informs nearly everything the company does, from product creation, to the look on the shelf, to how consumers interact with a product after they buy it. HBR Editor in Chief Ad...Starting at €8.20