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New Starbucks board chair Mellody Hobson lives, leads with urgency

Mellody Hobson, the Co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments, talks about the importance of time, having candid conversations and being the only Black woman chair of a Fortune 500 company in the U.S.

  • March 19, 2021
  • 11 min read

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