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After Hours

The Renaissance of Barnes & Noble and Dark Ages for Commercial Real Estate?

After Hours

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Hbr, Business/investing, Ideas, Mba, Economics, Professor, Business/management, News/business News, Management, News, Presents, Finance, Faculty, Harvard, Business

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Felix and Mihir discuss the durability of a book retailer's turnaround, the future of commercial real estate and whether all the doomsaying is correct.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I would like to tell you about a great new show from Ted called Fixable.

0:11.1

It's hosted by a colleague of mine, Harvard Business School Professor Francis Fry and

0:15.8

her wife, Leadership Coach Anne Morris.

0:19.1

On Fixable, they talk to listeners about workplace issues and give advice what's helped solve

0:24.5

these kinds of problems at some of the world's largest companies.

0:28.8

For Francis and Anne, no problem is too big or too small.

0:33.6

Find Fixable wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:38.8

Hello everyone, this is After Hours, I'm Felix and I'm Meher and it's the two of us.

0:51.8

Yeah, we're back.

0:52.8

Excellent.

0:53.8

What do you got for us today, Felix?

0:55.1

I would like to talk about Barnes & Noble.

0:58.2

That's an incredibly interesting story because not so long ago, we thought this was one

1:04.0

of the companies that we might fondly remember, but they didn't have much of a future and

1:09.7

now things are developing in a really interesting fashion and I'm curious to see what you make

1:15.8

of it.

1:16.8

Yeah, that sounds great.

1:17.8

Books are kind of interesting in of themselves, but the industry behind the books is even

1:22.2

more so.

1:23.2

That'll be fun.

1:24.2

What did you bring me here?

1:25.2

There's just now an increasing amount of concern about banks, obviously, for we've talked

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