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![]() ![]() He followed this with a stint at Vivendi, followed by senior leadership roles at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, the owner of Radisson Hotels, TGI Fridays and other hospitality – and importantly – people-centred businesses. Joly had followed a successful career path from his early days as a McKinsey consultant in Paris, trained on the numbers and traditional commercial strategy approach. ![]() As a consequence the employee morale and general innovation and energy capacity of the business were at rock bottom. Best Buy was seen to be at the wrong-end of the online battle, with large bricks-and-mortar retail stores and a management that was showing no nimbleness or agility. Joly took on the CEO role at Best Buy Co in 2012, when everyone believed the business was destined for bankruptcy and the job a poisoned chalice. ![]() Listen to Hubert speak with Roddy Millar in this Ideas for Leaders podcast He is now a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and a member of the board at Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, as well as of the advisory board of the top French business school, HEC Paris. ![]() Hubert Joly is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Best Buy Co Inc, the giant US electronics retailer, where he led the company's turnaround and transformed it into an industry leader. ![]()
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