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How does a new piece of work usually begin for you?

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The Paris Review, to novelists and poets, The Art of Fiction

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Mellody Hobson Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
So I started with this idea of could we do private equity totally differently than had been done? One of the major features of what we do is something called demand aggregation, where we go to corporations and what we call the CPO, the purchasing officers of those - chief purchasing officers. We developed a council of Fortune 500 companies.
Recorded Kathleen J. McInnis, Smart Women, Smart Power podcast, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 28 August 2024 source ↗

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