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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
8:21Inside CEO James Daunt’s Plan To Save Barnes & Noble | Behind The BusinessAugust 2, 2026
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11:38How Christie’s Made over $1 Billion in One Evening | Behind the BusinessJune 3, 2026
11:04Can Nordstrom thrive in the department store crisis? | Behind The BusinessMarch 15, 2026
8:57How Victoria's Secret Is Redefining "Sexy" | Behind The BusinessFebruary 4, 2026
10:08Why Hyatt is Leaning into Luxury | Behind the BusinessJanuary 27, 2026
10:20Crate & Barrel Wants You To Know They Are Much More Than Crates & Barrels | Behind the BusinessDecember 18, 2025
13:22Inside Ralph Lauren’s Big Comeback — And How it Won Over Gen ZOctober 1, 2025
8:51How Wayfair’s Betting on AI to Future Proof its $12B Empire July 29, 2025
7:43How Keurig Dr Pepper's $15B Empire Beat Out PepsiJune 1, 2025
10:18Adobe’s Secret Weapon in the AI Race? Trust—and Millions of SubscribersMay 21, 2025
10:36Trek built a $2B business. Now Tariffs are jeopardizing its future.May 6, 2025
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
55:39$4 Trillion Savings Gap: TIAA’s CEO on The Retirement Crisis June 16, 2026
49:12Qualcomm's AI takeover | Titans and DisruptorsMay 5, 2026
43:48Delta: Bankrupt to Billions | Titans and DisruptorsMarch 31, 2026
37:04The End of Work: Vinod Khosla's Bold AI Prediction | Titans and DisruptorsMarch 3, 2026
29:19Google’s AI boss made OpenAI issue code red. Now he wants to solve disease. | Titans and DisruptorsFebruary 10, 2026
48:34Pfizer CEO took on COVID. Now he wants to cure cancer | Titans and DisruptorsJanuary 27, 2026
32:50Kamala Harris says the ‘Glass Cliff’ Suggests Finality: “I’m Not Into That”October 14, 2025
44:40Jamie Dimon on What Kills Companies and the Key to Business LeadershipOctober 14, 2025
28:53How Ramp's Eric Glyman Built a $22.5 Billion Startup in 2,367 DaysSeptember 17, 2025
10:59How a Cancer Diagnosis Reframed Julie Sweet’s Approach Work and LeadershipSeptember 9, 2025
5:08Inside JPMorgan Chase's new office where employees are returning 5 days a week in personJanuary 28, 2025
8:08Amazon Robotics: Inside the Testing Lab Where Engineers Design the Latest Machine Learning | FortuneMarch 25, 2025
10:05Inside Walmart’s New 350-Acre HQMay 14, 2025
9:04Behind IBM’s Boldest Bet: The Quantum Test LabJune 29, 2025
Series
Day In The Life
2:52Airbnb’s 43-year-old CEO built a Fortune 500 giant— here is his daily routineFebruary 17, 2025
7:27Inside the daily routine of Build-A-Bear’s CEO who led a multi-million dollar turnaroundJanuary 11, 2025
5:37 From Deloitte CEO to WNBA commissioner: Inside Cathy Engelbert’s daily routineSeptember 25, 2024
5:40Whole Foods’ 46-year-old CEO works out twice a day and ‘fully uses up’ his PTO. His key to work-life balanceJuly 28, 2024
5:40Behind the scenes of an F1 Academy race with Susie WolffJune 20, 2024
4:29Crunch Fitness' CEO is a Marine vet with a rock-solid resolve who believes work-life balance is a mythMay 20, 2024
4:21Girl Scouts’ CEO has run over 8 marathons around the world. Here’s her daily routineMarch 29, 2024
4:04Momofuku’s CEO turned down the job "a million times" and says anyone who grows up wanting to be one is "crazy’March 7, 2024
5:01Magnolia Bakery’s CEO reveals her daily routine for whipping up the next viral banana pudding recipeFebruary 14, 2024
4:37The 38-year-old co-founder of $200 million Olipop is a college-dropout-turned DJ. Here’s his daily routineDecember 18, 2023
5:48Daily routine of Neiman Marcus’s 51-year-old CEO who loves horseback riding and collects wineNovember 19, 2023
3:58Orangetheory CEO: My daily routine 'biohacks' for better sleep and slower agingOctober 19, 2023
Virtual Conversations
59:17Fortune 500 Europe: In Conversation with Tech LeadersMay 29, 2026
59:27Fortune 500 Europe: In Conversation with HR LeadersMarch 30, 2026
59:35FROM DATA CHAOS TO AI IMPACT: WHAT INDUSTRY LEADERS ARE GETTING RIGHTNovember 18, 2025
57:13CFOs and the Future of Work: Optimizing for a Human-Machine WorkforceNovember 13, 2025
59:42Gen AI at Work: Rewriting Business and Talent StrategyNovember 12, 2025
58:46From Complexity to Clarity: Leading with ImpactOctober 17, 2025
58:32Sharper Defenses: Cybersecurity in the Age of AIOctober 12, 2025
58:0190% of Companies Use AI But Only 20% See ResultsOctober 6, 2024
57:33Fortune Director Roundtable Series: Cyber Security and the Board -Risks, Oversight and Protecting Your OrganizationMarch 6, 2025
55:28How Fortune Future 50 companies see AI changing the workplaceDecember 6, 2024
57:14Emerging CFOs on Staying Ahead in a Hypercompetitive MarketNovember 21, 2024
56:21Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For - EuropeOctober 17, 2024
Leadership
60:32Bill Ackman's takes on Mamdani, Trump and investing in the age of AIAugust 4, 2026
61:15A McKinsey Partner Warns Slow AI Adoption Could Cost Companies Their Existence | Next to LeadJuly 21, 2026
45:23Killing Vanity Metrics: How AI Just Blew Up The CMO Job | Next to LeadJuly 16, 2026
47:13FedEx CEO on How AI Can Fix a $1.8 Trillion Global Supply Chain ProblemJuly 14, 2026
30:57How Coach's Parent Company Keeps Winning Gen Z June 30, 2026
55:39$4 Trillion Savings Gap: TIAA’s CEO on The Retirement Crisis June 16, 2026
49:12Qualcomm's AI takeover | Titans and DisruptorsMay 5, 2026
35:00How Carvana survived a 99% stock collapse | Next to LeadApril 19, 2026
2:23How the CEO of H&R Block is using AI to automate the mechanics of tax prepApril 12, 2026
2:25“You can't make everybody happy”: This CEO’s insight into leading H&R Block through a high-stakes tax seasonApril 9, 2026
30:16Big Pharma's trust gap? How Gilead is rewriting the narrative | Next to LeadApril 12, 2026
43:48Delta: Bankrupt to Billions | Titans and DisruptorsMarch 31, 2026
Politics
15:12Gun Violence Is Finally Dropping, but a Trump Presidency Could Change ThatNovember 5, 2024
69:02How Black Women Organizers Broke Zoom to Raise $1.5 MillionSeptember 22, 2024
17:48Malaysia's Prime Minister tells Fortune about attracting investment from Elon MuskAugust 28, 2023
10:54Malaysia is betting on economic transformation. China and A.I. are key to making it happenAugust 29, 2023
1:10Fed hike puts interest rates at 22-year highJuly 27, 2023
1:46President Biden responds to the Supreme Court's decision on student loan forgivenessJune 29, 2023
0:55Federal Reserve pauses interest rate hikes for nowJune 13, 2023
1:25Yellen says U.S. defaulting on debt would generate a 'catastrophe'May 16, 2023
1:28Pete Buttigieg on the need for less expensive EVsMay 11, 2023
2:44Debt ceiling standoff continuesMay 10, 2023
1:07Powell: The path to lower inflation will likely "be bumpy"April 17, 2023
1:31 Biden urges "responsible innovation" of A.I.April 17, 2023
Travel
1:29A look inside The Peninsula Suite starting at $30,000 per nightDecember 5, 2023
1:17Tel Aviv is the most expensive city in the worldDecember 8, 2021
2:02Walt Disney World is turning 50November 19, 2021
1:25Holiday air travel may be a headache this yearOctober 31, 2021
6:55COVID derailed America’s largest mass transit systemsNovember 2, 2021
1:05Airlines are hitting more trouble ahead in COVID recoverySeptember 20, 2021
4:34COVID made renting a car even more of a headacheAugust 19, 2021
14:06Vaccine passports are here—why are borders still closed?June 10, 2021
0:59Gas prices expected to hit a 6-year highMarch 24, 2021
1:10The travel industry is starting to rebound from COVID-19March 19, 2021
1:49Vaccine Passports: What to knowMarch 10, 2021
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