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Diane Brady

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The case for CEOs who can laugh at themselves

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‘Will you be my best friend?’ How Lumen’s Kate Johnson turned a breakfast into a CEO partnership

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14.10.2026 10

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Alphabet’s Ruth Porat brings a pragmatic optimism to the AI race—and a warning about the possible downsides

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13.10.2026 10

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Can we trust OpenAI and Anthropic to monitor their own technology?

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12.10.2026 60

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The AI race may be decided by financing—not just better chips

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09.10.2026 20

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Whole Foods CEO says grocery will turn Amazon from the ‘everything store’ into the ‘everyday store’

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08.10.2026 60

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Bayer’s CEO cut managers by 70%. Now comes the hard part

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07.10.2026 30

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The Supreme Court takes up climate costs. CEOs should worry about the cost of doing nothing

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06.10.2026 20

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Elizabeth Holmes puts on a new act in Nathan Fielder’s documentary. It’s a distraction from the real story

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Ford CEO Jim Farley says the line between engineers and skilled tradespeople is now ‘completely blurred out’

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02.10.2026 20

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The U.S. needs 1.7 million skilled trades workers a year. Ford wants to help train them

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Inside Danny Meyer’s promote-from-within culture: 80% of his GMs started as hourly staff

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29.09.2026 50

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Why the U.S.-China thaw is harder than it looks

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28.09.2026 30

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Upstart sports leagues fail constantly. SailGP is beating the odds

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25.09.2026 30

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A $499 checkup gave me a peek at the future of AI-powered health care

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24.09.2026 50

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Retail CEOs see a holiday paradox: shoppers are anxious but still willing to spend

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23.09.2026 10

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The AI race should be less about supremacy and more about sustainability

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22.09.2026 30

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The midterms are a stress test for American media

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21.09.2026 20

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Bots now outnumber human traffic on the web. Cloudflare’s CEO wants AI companies to pay for it

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18.09.2026 20

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CEOs are still betting on the leadership trait AI can’t replace

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16.09.2026 40

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The leaders 9/11 made—and the ones it took

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11.09.2026 30

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CEO of an automation platform explains how he wrote a 168-page book with AI: ‘It was like a Socratic dialogue’

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10.09.2026 60

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The real jobs problem CEOs are talking about isn’t hiring

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08.09.2026 60

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CEOs are reading fewer books because of AI—and it’s starting to worry them

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03.09.2026 40

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Galderma’s $650 million bet on U.S. manufacturing captures Europe’s new investment playbook

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02.09.2026 40

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New Apple CEO John Ternus faces an old problem: the innovator’s dilemma

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01.09.2026 30

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GXO CEO: Better robot hands, not Olympic-level humanoids, are what businesses really need

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31.08.2026 50

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Meta’s $18 billion settlement won’t be enough to escape its trust problem

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27.08.2026 30

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Mark Cuban wants companies to give their employees more stock. Could that narrow the divide between the bottom and the top?

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26.08.2026 40

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AI is giving Trivago and its CEO Johannes Thomas a new playbook on how to beat back disruption

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25.08.2026 50

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The U.S. is unlikely to win its ‘dumb trade war’ with Canada. Here’s why

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24.08.2026 30

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The bond market is sending CEOs a blunt message: Borrowing costs are going to go up

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21.08.2026 30

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Zynga founder Mark Pincus: AI can get you to a B-plus, but it won’t get you to an A

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The CEO of KB Home has a plan to tempt first-time buyers into the market at last

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18.08.2026 40

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Inside Japan’s climate-adaptation playbook

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17.08.2026 30

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Serena Williams is finding new mentors in the VC chapter of her career—and is learning how to be one herself

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14.08.2026 30

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From Edison to the AI age: inside GE Vernova’s reinvention and 600% stock spike

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12.08.2026 50

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Ex-MI6 chief says the biggest risks for CEOs are the threats they already know about

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11.08.2026 20

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Rocket Companies CEO Varun Krishna wants to fuse Silicon Valley talent with Detroit grit

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10.08.2026 40

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eBay CEO Jamie Iannone’s new playbook embraces AI tools while blocking AI buyers

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06.08.2026 40

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Ikea’s AI bot didn’t replace workers. It made them more valuable

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03.08.2026 40

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A 103-year-old company says it has a plan to make AI data centers ‘water-neutral’

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31.07.2026 30

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Tariffs, debt, and a stubborn Fed are squeezing consumers

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30.07.2026 50

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What CEOs learned about AI, work, and legacy from their own Gen Z kids

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29.07.2026 70

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The Fortune Global 500 gets top-heavy—and more powerful than ever

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28.07.2026 50

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StubHub CEO Eric Baker is under scrutiny for enabling mass scalpers on his ticket reselling platform

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27.07.2026 50

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CEOs agree there’s an affordability crisis, but how to solve it isn’t so simple

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23.07.2026 50

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Samsung’s North America CEO says the smartphone is just an entry point to ambient AI of the home

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22.07.2026 40

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Agentic commerce is coming—and the battle to build its infrastructure is on

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20.07.2026 40

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American workers are retreating into silos. CEOs can bridge the gap

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17.07.2026 40

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