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Restructuring Mobile Game Giant Supercell for a Turnaround

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Getting Your Boss to Buy into Your Strategy (from “Coaching Real Leaders”)

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Considering the Future of the BBC and Its Funding Model

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Dare to Be Bad at Something (from Fixable)

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How GEO Is Changing the Role of Brand Manager

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Best of Cold Call: The Bumpy Road to Expanding a Fleet of Electric School Buses

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Can an AI-Powered Scribe Curb Physician Burnout?

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Why Metaphysic AI Looked to Hollywood for a Digital Rights Model

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How a Museum Marketing Team Used AI to Bring People Closer to Art

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Are We Entering a New Age of Creativity with the Help of AI?

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How School of Rock Created Structure in Order to Scale with Agility and Creativity

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The Founder Mindset: Tim Ferriss on Experiments, Risk, and Freedom

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How Strong Teams Leverage Different Personality Types

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Microsoft’s Path to Adopting and Scaling AI Across its Sales Organization

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How a Family-Owned Greek Cement Company Evolved Its Leadership While Pivoting Its Product Portfolio

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The Challenges of Scaling a Technology for Social Good

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Should Wasabi Technologies Make the Move from Direct Sales to a Channel Strategy?

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How Software Startup InsightSquared Wrestled with Creating an Optimal Sales and Marketing Strategy

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Why the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Opened Up to Customers about Credit Card Risks

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Innovations in Olympic Speed Skating: When to Reveal a Novel Approach

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If and How to Scale the Acquired Podcast

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How Italian Luxury Brand Golden Goose Determined Its Next Phase of Growth

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How Equitable Confronted Its Inertia After 160 Years in Business

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Climate Rising: Extending Apparel Lifespan with ThredUp

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Inside Coinbase’s Mission-First, Remote-First Bet

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BrandBastion Mixes AI and Human Judgment to Build Trust at Scale

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Apollo Global Management’s Business Model Transformation

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Inside India’s Energy Transition: Tata Power’s Net Zero Strategy

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Tim Ferriss at a Career Crossroads: How Should He Shape His Next Chapter?

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How Dollar Tree Plans to Thrive Despite Breaking the Buck

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How Lyft’s CEO Got the Company Moving Again

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Partnerships Power Highland Electric’s Expanding Fleet of School Buses

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Atlassian Anchors Remote Flexibility in Structured Daily Practices

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Disrupting the Freezer Aisle: Dr. Bombay Ice Cream

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Shake Shack’s Digital Playbook: More Tech, Same Hospitality?

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At Booking.com, Innovation Means Constant Failure (Summer Repeat)

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Ensuring Boston Ballet Stays Relevant

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How Bill Wilson Cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous and Created a Lasting Social Movement

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How Keurig Brewed a Return to Growth

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Mattel’s Barbie Playbook: Replicating Success Across the Company’s Portfolio

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How Duolingo Aims to Diversify Beyond Language Learning

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The Nuqul Group Works to Preserve Its Founder’s Legacy

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Calyx Global: Improving the Quality of Carbon Credits

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How Lanco Medical Group Fosters Workforce Happiness to Motivate Employees and Grow Fast

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The Evolution of Luxury Brand Porsche

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Should Google Stay in the Cloud Gaming Business?

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Celebrating 10 Years of Cold Call

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Managing the Future of Work: Microsoft’s AI Perspective

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The Leadership Style of Football Legend Deion Sanders

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Scaling a Family Business While Maintaining Founding Values

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A New Model for Funding Healthcare Innovation

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How Entertainment Lawyer John Branca Negotiated for the Beatles Songs Catalog

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How Pernod Ricard Is Integrating AI into Its Workforce

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Can a Coffee Shop in Utah Help Solve Underemployment for People with Disabilities?

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What Sequoia Capital Can Teach Leaders About Sustaining Long-Term Growth

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Choosing Passion: A Founder’s Mission to Meet a Need for Obesity Care

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Fawn Weaver’s Entrepreneurial Journey as an Outsider in the Spirits Industry

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How the U.S. Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing

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Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports

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How EdTech Firm Coursera Is Incorporating GenAI into Its Products and Services

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Transforming the Workplace for People with Disabilities

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Should You Buy a Seasonal Business? (from Think Big, Buy Small)

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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Brand Building

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How Natural Winemaker Frank Cornelissen Innovated While Staying True to His Brand

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How One Insurtech Firm Formulated a Strategy for Climate Change

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The Importance of Trust for Managing Through a Crisis

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Lessons in Business Innovation from Legendary Restaurant elBulli

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Amazon in Seattle: The Role of Business in Causing and Solving a Housing Crisis

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Sustaining a Legacy of Giving in Turkey

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How One Leader Overcame Career-Ending Adversity

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How to Bring Good Ideas to Life: The Paul English Story

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How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?

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Apple’s Dilemma: Balancing Privacy and Safety Responsibilities

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Can Second-Generation Ethanol Production Help Decarbonize the World?

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How SolarWinds Responded to the 2020 SUNBURST Cyberattack

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Should Businesses Take a Stand on Societal Issues?

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Can Sustainability Drive Innovation at Ferrari?

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What Founders Get Wrong about Sales and Marketing

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Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Clothing Line: Making Fashion Inclusive

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Building a More Equitable Culture at Delta Air Lines

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How Should Meta Be Governed for the Good of Society?

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How the United States Air Force Accelerated AI Adoption

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Scaling Two Businesses Against the Odds: Wendy Estrella’s Founder Journey

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The PGA Tour and LIV Golf Merger: Competition Vs. Cooperation

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Can Remote Surgeries Digitally Transform Operating Rooms?

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As Social Networks Get More Competitive, Which Ones Will Survive?

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Ryan Serhant: How to Manage Your Time for Happiness

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Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?

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Diversity and Inclusion at Mars Petcare: Translating Awareness into Action

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How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons in Strategic Change

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The Opioid Crisis, CEO Pay, and Shareholder Activism

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The Entrepreneurial Journey of China’s First Private Mental Health Hospital

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Can Robin Williams’ Son Help Other Families Heal Addiction and Depression?

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Sweden’s Northvolt Electric Battery Maker: A Startup with a Mission

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Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi: Transforming Lives with Access to Credit

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How Martine Rothblatt Started a Company to Save Her Daughter

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Using Design Thinking to Invent a Low-Cost Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims

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Our All-Time Favorite Episodes of Cold Call

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A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry