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Taking Decisive Action in a Crisis

HBR On Leadership

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Introduction

Cynthia Carroll was only a few months into leading the global mining firm Anglo-American when she suspended operations in their South African Platinum Mine. In this episode, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Research fellow Gautam Mukunda explains how Carroll used that temporary shutdown to make changes to the company culture at Anglo-American. This episode originally aired on cold call in September 2016.

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