Inside the death of Hudson’s Bay. Why former senior employees believe leader Richard Baker should take the blame

When Hudson’s Bay employees joined a company-wide Zoom meeting on March 8, 2021, they found their chairman, Richard Baker, wearing a camouflage T-shirt and seated in what appeared to be a boat cabin, accompanied by two tiny dogs.

The unmistakable theme from “Game of Thrones” played through the speakers as Baker unmuted himself. “We are at war,” employees recall him saying. “And we are going to win. We will crush the competition.”