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Zelle chief Denise Leonhard says a lack of humor at work ‘kills creativity and makes people want to work less’

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19.09.2025 2

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How Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach is pushing employees to get over their fear of AI

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18.09.2025 30

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‘It’s a circus over there’: Drama at the Fed has CEOs worrying about its reputation

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17.09.2025 6

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What CEOs think about the SEC ‘prioritizing’ Trump’s plan to end quarterly reporting for public companies

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16.09.2025 10

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Here’s what sets apart the top companies most ready to thrive in the age of AI — and U.S. tech is leading the way

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15.09.2025 10

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More leaders are recognizing the ‘power of small teams’

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12.09.2025 20

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Charlie Kirk’s murder is the latest violent act to put public-facing leaders on edge

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11.09.2025 10

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Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin: The optimism around AI is contagious and not just hype

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09.09.2025 10

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Hitachi Rail Group CEO Giuseppe Marino is trying to build high-speed rail in the U.S. 

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08.09.2025 30

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Don’t date at work, don’t be a jerk: In our viral age, CEOs should behave like royalty to avoid being fired

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04.09.2025 40

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Cracker Barrel’s logo fiasco shows how hard it is to freshen things up without annoying loyal customers

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25.08.2025 10

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Former Siemens and Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld dismisses the idea of work-life separation: ‘You are one person’

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22.08.2025 10

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What CEOs are saying about the alleged AI bubble

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20.08.2025 20

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How GoodRx CEO Wendy Barnes is trying to halve the cost of GLP-1 obesity drugs

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19.08.2025 10

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Pop culture and politics are intertwined in the age of Trump. Just look at the Paramount-Skydance merger

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18.08.2025 10

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This cybersecurity company’s AI hacker can locate files on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers ‘in less than five minutes’

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15.08.2025 10

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There’s a small problem with Trump’s export deal with Nvidia and AMD: The Constitution says it’s illegal

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14.08.2025 20

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How CEOs deal with Trump: Praise, face time, remorse, and gifts made of gold all go a long way, experience shows

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13.08.2025 20

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What CEOs really think about Nvidia and AMD’s China export deal: ‘Brilliant, a tariff that we don’t have to pay’

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12.08.2025 30

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Rolls-Royce CEO Tufan Erginbilgiç: ‘You can’t always influence the macro stuff but you influence how you deal with it’

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11.08.2025 10

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The 5 things you need to ‘really create magic’ with AI: the LLM, the context, the prompt, the workflow, and the evaluation

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08.08.2025 20

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What CFOs say about AI when they’re speaking off the record

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07.08.2025 40

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WM CEO Jim Fish on sustainability in the waste, recycling, and landfill industry

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06.08.2025 10

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The fall of Elon Musk down Fortune’s 100 Most Powerful People in Business list shows how power is impermanent

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05.08.2025 10

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Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once claimed the jobs numbers were faked. How did that turn out?

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04.08.2025 10

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Global warming and CEO leadership (but make it funny!)

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01.08.2025 20

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Warren Buffett’s advice to Brooks CEO: ‘Make sure the brand is stronger at the end of the year than it was at the beginning’

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31.07.2025 20

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AI is creating two-person companies that scale

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30.07.2025 10

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BYD overtakes Tesla on Fortune’s Global 500 as once-dominant U.S. companies feel heat from foreign rivals

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29.07.2025 30

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‘Epstein will forever be a loser in people’s minds and Donald Trump doesn’t hang out with losers,’ a Trump insider says. ‘It’s off-brand’ 

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25.07.2025 10

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NIQ CEO on going public: ‘We’re sitting on a goldmine of data. We cover 85% of the world’s population’

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24.07.2025 10

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UniCredit withdraws offer to buy rival Banco BPM, blaming Italy’s government

UniCredit withdrew its offer blaming the "golden power" restrictions exercised by the Italian government.

23.07.2025 5

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With China now an adversary, this early Google investor wants the U.S. to bet on India instead

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23.07.2025 10

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Penny Pennington of investment advice firm Edward Jones: ‘We’re a wealth and wellbeing company’

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18.07.2025 10

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Yahoo’s Jim Lanzone: People ‘think that Nike happened overnight or they were just brand geniuses—it took years’

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16.07.2025 10

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Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman talks about why the company lagged rivals in AI—until now

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15.07.2025 4

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We may never hear Linda Yaccarino’s side of the X story: ‘There’s always a nondisclosure where you can’t set the story straight’

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11.07.2025 10

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Coursera founder Daphne Koller on receiving a MacArthur genius grant: ‘It wasn’t me’

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09.07.2025 10

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Joe Kiani is back: After being ousted from Masimo the billionaire has returned as CEO of Like Minded Labs

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08.07.2025 10

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Booz Allen Hamilton may have been a DOGE target—but its CEO is still bullish on his biggest client

Recent global conflicts mean that spending on national security may go up, predicts CEO Horacio Rozanski.

05.07.2025 10

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1 in 343 job applicants is now a fake from North Korea, this security company says

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02.07.2025 20

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8% GDP growth?

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30.06.2025 10

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Accor Group CEO Sébastien Bazin: ‘Anybody who’s waiting for the day after tomorrow is just an idiot’

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26.06.2025 10

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Lattice CEO: AI will flatten the difference between entry level staff and the C-suite

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24.06.2025 7

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Booz Allen Hamilton CEO: ‘It’s good to have options in dealing with Iran’

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23.06.2025 10

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The art of debate, as not demonstrated by Senator Ted Cruz

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20.06.2025 10

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DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez: The Trump administration is ‘very aggressive in trying to change the trajectory of health care’

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19.06.2025 20

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Autodesk CEO fights declining industry optimism around AI

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18.06.2025 10

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Cushman & Wakefield’s Michelle MacKay on the advantages of board-to-CEO leaders

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17.06.2025 10

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General Mills CEO Harmening: ‘We don’t sell Cheerios in the morning and then think about sustainability in the afternoon’

Also: Israel-Iran conflict enters fourth day, Trump orders more mass deportations.

16.06.2025 10

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