Best Buy’s Hail Mary Pass
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January 29, 2013 - 1:27pm
If hiring a celebrity pitchman is a corporate-balance-sheet booster, running a star-studded Super Bowl ad is a Hail Mary pass. Best Buy and 5 other companies that looked to stars to reverse their fortunes
January 29, 2013 - 1:27pm
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