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Nov 2025
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Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Surviv...

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
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Former Army helicopter pilot Matthew Brady (MBA 2016) discusses his battlefield experience—and how it shaped his approach to business 
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