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Hubert Joly is a French business executive best known for his tenure as CEO of Best Buy, where he led a successful turnaround of the company. Before joining Best Buy, he served as CEO of Carlson Companies and held leadership roles at Vivendi.

Known for: The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

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The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

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In this book, former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly shares his philosophy of purpose-driven leadership, showing how companies can achieve extraordinary results by putting people and purpose at the heart of business. Drawing on his experience transforming Best Buy, Joly argues that business can be a force for good when it focuses on human connections, authenticity, and shared values rather than short-term profits.

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The Crisis of Capitalism

When I look at the modern economy, I see a system that has produced immense prosperity—and profound imbalance. Profit-centered capitalism promised efficiency, yet it often delivered alienation. In boardrooms across the world, we treated shareholder returns as the sole measure of success. But what of...

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Rediscovering Purpose

When I speak about purpose, I am not referring to a marketing slogan or a quarterly theme. Purpose is the company’s reason for being—why it exists beyond making money. Rediscovering purpose requires courage: it means asking who we are at our core, and what noble cause we serve. During the early days...

From The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

About Hubert Joly

Hubert Joly is a French business executive best known for his tenure as CEO of Best Buy, where he led a successful turnaround of the company. Before joining Best Buy, he served as CEO of Carlson Companies and held leadership roles at Vivendi. Joly is also a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School...

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Hubert Joly is a French business executive best known for his tenure as CEO of Best Buy, where he led a successful turnaround of the company. Before joining Best Buy, he served as CEO of Carlson Companies and held leadership roles at Vivendi. Joly is also a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and an advocate for purpose-driven capitalism.

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