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Can History's Innovators Teach Us How to Persist Through 2020?
Can History’s Innovators Teach Us How to Survive 2020?
21 Oct 2020
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When we look back at 2020, what will we have learned after a global health crisis, a national reckoning around racism, and a divisive election? In the season's first episode of HBR Now, we speak with Walter Isaacson, a journalist, professor and author who has chronicled some of the great minds in history: Leonardo Da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and more. We talk about how these individuals rose to their challenges and what lessons they offer to us during today's crises -- and about Isaacson's take on the U.S…
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