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Inside Japan’s climate-adaptation playbook

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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 10

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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 20

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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 6

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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 20

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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 20

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

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03.08.2026 20

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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 10

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Tariffs, debt, and a stubborn Fed are squeezing consumers

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30.07.2026 20

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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 40

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

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28.07.2026 30

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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 30

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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 20

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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 20

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

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20.07.2026 20

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

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17.07.2026 20

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As banks post blowout earnings, CEOs reckon with America’s inequality gap

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16.07.2026 30

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MassMutual CEO says Americans’ share of the U.S. debt is going up $10 a day

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14.07.2026 30

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The escalating U.S.–Iran war is rewriting the CEO playbook again

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13.07.2026 20

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40% of Americans didn’t read a book last year. These 3 are worth the exception

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10.07.2026 30

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Chief sustainability officers’ new pitch to CEOs: climate action isn’t about morals—it’s about money

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09.07.2026 20

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Unilever’s big World Cup bet is all about building ‘desire at scale’

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08.07.2026 40

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World Cup fever is real. This CEO is betting it’s not fleeting

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07.07.2026 40

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C.H. Robinson’s CEO is running his AI transformation on Lean principles: ‘It’s been a game-changer for this company’

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06.07.2026 30

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The true cost of Donald Trump’s $2.2 billion year

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02.07.2026 10

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The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling hands the U.S. economy a $7.7 trillion win

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01.07.2026 30

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Why Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe wants his EV company to be compared to Apple, not Tesla

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30.06.2026 30

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CEOs have forgotten the moderate playbook. The stakes for relearning it have never been higher

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29.06.2026 30

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Two former governors launch a bipartisan coalition to confront the coming AI jobs shock

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26.06.2026 40

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Business is moving past the tech bro era and learning to value ‘real people, real places’

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24.06.2026 30

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The CEO with real-time data on 1 in 6 American workers says stop worrying about jobs—and start thinking about tasks

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23.06.2026 20

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Veteran Middle East CEO says business in the region isn’t retreating—it’s resetting

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22.06.2026 30

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Kevin Warsh’s hawkish tone: What CEOs need to know about rates today

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18.06.2026 40

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CEO David Cordani built Cigna into a $275B juggernaut but now wants to be ‘somewhat forgotten’

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16.06.2026 30

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Trump says U.S.-Iran peace deal is done, but hard questions still loom

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15.06.2026 30

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How Elon Musk sold a $1.77 trillion dream—and what other CEOs can learn from the SpaceX IPO

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12.06.2026 30

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‘Oh God, no! Not another thing:’ What Anthropic’s Mythos-class Fable 5 means for CEOs trying to govern AI

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11.06.2026 40

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Health care’s AI dividend is real. The fight now is over who reaps the gains

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10.06.2026 80

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The CEO playbook for a more dangerous world

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09.06.2026 40

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Snowflake CEO says there’s a big myth at the heart of every org chart

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08.06.2026 20

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Can unions power the AI economy? AFL-CIO’s Liz Shuler thinks so

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05.06.2026 40

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These COOs became CEOs. Here’s what they wish everyone knew about the tricky transition

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04.06.2026 50

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Bigger, richer, more concentrated: Inside the new Fortune 500

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03.06.2026 40

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Cognizant CEO says AI is remaking middle managers into player-coaches who can ‘both executive and develop others’

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02.06.2026 60

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From GE’s hot seat to Substack: Jeff Immelt reflects on a new chapter and why now is the time to get candid

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01.06.2026 60

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A little-known semiconductor company just won an entrepreneur contest that previously honored Jensen Huang and Michael Dell

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29.05.2026 60

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Why some CEOs still choose Europe over the U.S.

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28.05.2026 30

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Inside CEO Jane Fraser’s 5-year grind to restore Citi’s credibility

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27.05.2026 30

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Creators who built followings based on trust refuse to outsource some tasks to AI: Humans can ‘sense a decoy’

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26.05.2026 50

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Bolt’s cofounder scrapped its HR department. This CEO says people management is key to thriving in the AI age

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22.05.2026 30

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