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The Stakeholders You Need to Close a Big Deal

Harvard Business Review

In the face of the global capital meltdown the only way to procure large sums was from corporate investors. The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson. His goal was to effectively capture the potential upside of an emerging market and shut out AT&T’s competitors without sacrificing his own credibility.