Richard Harpin

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James Reed: all about business · 61. The email that saved HomeServe and sparked a £4bn business | Sir Richard Harpin · 12 Jan 2026 podcast

So INSEAD outside Paris, I went there last weekend weirdly, my son is a student there, but INSEAD outside Paris offer sort of support in this area, do they?

10 days spread over about eight months, 36 of us there learning on the course.

I think it also helped me to be a better chairman when I stepped down as the chief exec of HomeServe, to be able to step back and take a hands-off approach to helping the two guys that took over from me in HomeServe.

Right.

How interesting.

Oh, I'll look into that.

That sounds like a good course.

So since HomeServe, you've got some new lines of business.

You're not one to stop working.

I can see that.

So you mentioned earlier business leader.

You were looking at a rack of business magazines and you decided to do something.

What was that, Richard?

This is really linked to too many mistakes I made, James, in HomeServe over the years.

And the nine things I know now that I wish I'd known at the start of my journey.

And I think if we'd known those as a team, maybe we could have got there in half the time.

So I was determined to get those messages out from writing and publishing my book.

The key thing was also about how else could we get the messages out and thought, what about if I had a business magazine?

And that would be a way of inspiring and telling other stories of successful entrepreneurs, the who and then the how.

So how can I do it if I'm running a smaller business and follow those role models?

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