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Inside CEO James Daunt’s Plan To Save Barnes & Noble | Behind The Business
Barnes & Noble was once seen as another casualty of Amazon. Today, it’s expanded to over 700 stores nationwide. In this episode, Fortune’s Phil Wahba explores CEO James Daunt’s plan to save America’s biggest book chain by making it cool again.

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Inside CEO James Daunt’s Plan To Save Barnes & Noble | Behind The Business
Barnes & Noble was once seen as another casualty of Amazon. Today, it’s expanded to over 700 stores nationwide. In this episode, Fortune’s Phil Wahba explores CEO James Daunt’s plan to save America’s biggest book chain by making it cool again.
Behind the Business
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60:32Bill Ackman's takes on Mamdani, Trump and investing in the age of AIAugust 4, 2026
47:13FedEx CEO on How AI Can Fix a $1.8 Trillion Global Supply Chain ProblemJuly 14, 2026
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49:12Qualcomm's AI takeover | Titans and DisruptorsMay 5, 2026
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61:15A McKinsey Partner Warns Slow AI Adoption Could Cost Companies Their Existence | Next to LeadJuly 21, 2026
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35:00How Carvana survived a 99% stock collapse | Next to LeadApril 19, 2026
30:16Big Pharma's trust gap? How Gilead is rewriting the narrative | Next to LeadApril 12, 2026
22:23Can Adobe survive the AI era it helped shape? | Next to LeadMarch 22, 2026
38:31Airbnb is building a travel platform, not just rentals | Next to LeadMarch 8, 2026
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37:26How America’s oldest automaker is tackling tariffs, electrification, and AI | Next to Lead December 7, 2025
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32:38The $11.5B Startup 100 Investors Turned Down | Term SheetJuly 28, 2026
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52:40The Investor Who Bet on SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic Before You Could | Term SheetJune 10, 2026
39:46The $2B AI tool automating Wall Street | Term SheetMay 27, 2026
35:06This creator investor on the truth about the AI gold rush | Term SheetMay 13, 2026
36:26From a Palo Alto closet to $1 billion revenue: how Gusto cracked small business software | Term SheetMay 7, 2026
32:24How to raise a CEO: The "Godmother of Silicon Valley" Esther Wojcicki | Term SheetApril 21, 2026
29:02The Startup Fighting to Save the American Farm with Modern Finance | Term SheetApril 7, 2026
51:28How Winston Weinberg built his $11 billion AI Company | Term SheetMarch 17, 2026
26:02Why revenue is an outdated metric | Term SheetFebruary 18, 2026
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3:06Open vs. closed source AI: Is the future of AI free or behind a paywall? | Fortune AI PlaybookAugust 9, 2026
2:22Can you trust AI agents? The 4 rules for safe deployment | Fortune AI PlaybookMay 5, 2026
2:34The self-improving AI era: what are agentic loops? | Fortune AI PlaybookMay 5, 2026
3:49What is AGI, really? The AI milestone no one can define | Fortune AI PlaybookMay 5, 2026
2:02Is your data safe? The new AI cyber threat explained | Fortune AI PlaybookMay 5, 2026
1:58Hate the Dial Tone? Press 0 for AI Support! | Fortune AI PlaybookMarch 19, 2026
2:56How AI Ads Are Making You Spend More | Fortune AI PlaybookMarch 19, 2026
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2:21Why corporate boardrooms are facing AI sticker shock | Fortune AI PlaybookAugust 9, 2026
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3:02AI can spot cancer 16 months early. Will it replace doctors? | Fortune AI PlaybookAugust 9, 2026
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