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Just search new here. Welcome to the HPR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Audie Ignatius, editor-in-chief, and I met recently with the CEO of

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Michael Linton. We discussed how Sony survived the biggest

corporate hack in history and what Michael learned from the

process. Here are excerpts from our conversation. So let's talk about that for a second.

Is your assumption that this was North Korea or North Koreans?

I don't make that assumption. I don't make any assumption. I was actually, oddly not

concerned by who did this. I was more concerned about how to get the business up and

running and more concerned about making to get the business up and running and more concerned about

making sure that the folks here felt calm enough and felt secure enough to keep on going

with their jobs. What the government's told me, what the FBI has called me, what the

President of the United States

is that it's North Korea.

I have to believe them.

You know, they did the forensics on it,

they did the intelligence works on it.

They've come back and said publicly that this is who they think are. I mean, there's a life. it's the fact that you know some of the early communications when the hackers had

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