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Every CEO is a wartime CEO now—regardless of geopolitical conflict

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Inside the Fortune CEO Initiative dinner: Debt worries, diplomacy, and a chance to have a ‘good debate’

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UL Solutions rolls out a new standard to fill a gap in AI regulation: ‘Innovation without safety is failure’

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19.03.2026 10

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The best way for CEOs to keep bonuses in a downturn: Lower expectations

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18.03.2026 10

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Ireland courts U.S. companies as taoiseach brings deals to Trump on St. Patrick’s Day

Pharma exports helped double Ireland’s goods trade surplus with the U.S. to $114 billion last year.

17.03.2026 10

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Ray Dalio thinks the world looks like ‘pre-1945 times’ as we near the end of his ‘Big Cycle’

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Former Indeed CEO Chris Hyams thinks AI’s risk doesn’t come from the tech, but from those ‘responsible for driving it’

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13.03.2026 20

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Fortune to host Fortune 500 Innovation Forum in Detroit in November

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Israeli President’s message to CEOs in D.C.: ‘We need to be steadfast, take a deep breath, and finish the undermining of Iran’

Isaac Herzog spoke to a group of business leaders gathered in Washington on Wednesday at the Yale CEO Caucus.

11.03.2026 10

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AI isn’t killing jobs yet—CEOs are using layoffs to fund a $2.5 trillion arms race

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10.03.2026 10

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Economist Dambisa Moyo says CEOs must play a role in sustaining the consumer class as AI eliminates jobs

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The Iran war is giving rise to a centuries-old economic theory—and laying waste to the WTO-based world order

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3 questions every CEO needs to ask about the AI jobs doom loom in the wake of Jack Dorsey’s dramatic 40% layoffs at Block

Dorsey’s move sparked fresh debate about AI’s impact on jobs after a week dominated by doomsday scenarios.

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The Iran war could accelerate the rise of the ‘poly-national’ company

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U.S. war with Iran forces CEOs to prepare for the worst—from rising energy prices to cyber attacks

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Exclusive: Bilt’s new AI ‘Neighborhood Concierge’ takes on Amazon and other e-commerce giants

Says Bilt CEO Ankur Jain: "Customers can wake up and say, "Hey, can you pay my rent for me, have eggs delivered to my apartment and make a reservation...

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Bilt’s new AI ‘Neighborhood Concierge’ goes head-to-head with Amazon as the battle for home-based commerce heats up

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Trump dodges mention of tariff refunds in State of the Union speech

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25.02.2026 10

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The viral ‘Ghost GDP’ essay predicting a devastating AI doom loop is a warning to CEOs as they decide how much work to automate

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CEOs who despised Trump’s tariffs are still silent after Supreme Court ruling: ‘There’s no upside in speaking up’

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Amazon dethrones Walmart as No. 1 on the Fortune 500. There’s a big upside to their rivalry

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Royal Caribbean’s CEO is using AI to predict how many hamburgers you’ll eat—and to compete with Orlando, Vegas and Taylor Swift

"We're massive users of AI in a non-creepy way," Royal Caribbean CEO Jason Liberty told Fortune.

19.02.2026 10

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This Fortune 500 CEO says ‘lean manufacturing’—the management philosophy Toyota made famous—is a prerequisite for leveraging AI

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Goldman Sachs scraps DEI criteria for its board as the business case for boardroom diversity only grows more compelling

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Unicorn CEO on the disaster of $1.3 trillion of credit card debt, an all-time high: His fintech wouldn’t exist if ‘banks had done a better job’

Still, despite everything, the French-American CEO Renaud Laplanche told Fortune, there's a certain unkillable "optimism" to the American consumer.

17.02.2026 20

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New U.S. legislation could upend credit card loyalty programs. The Points Guy founder calls the reckoning un-American

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CEOs are still buying into the business case for sustainability, despite Trump’s climate rollbacks

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3 factors that will separate the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ winners from losers

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This CEO wants to do for hearing aids what she helped do for shapewear at Spanx

Laurie Ann Goldman, who helped turn Spanx into a global powerhouse, is now CEO of Audien Hearing.

10.02.2026 3

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The civil war inside American Airlines may not be all CEO Robert Isom’s fault

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Some health care CEOs praise TrumpRx for empowering consumers to compare drug prices

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Disney’s Bob Iger achieves an essential feat for outgoing CEOs: giving his successor a clean slate

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Less than 10% of employees believe their bosses are demonstrating moral leadership

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Ro CEO wants to erase GLP-1 stigma with first Super Bowl ad featuring Serena Williams

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30 years after the founding of ‘Silicon Alley,’ New York’s tech scene is so big it has no center

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02.02.2026 5

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CEO of Glassdoor and Indeed parent says AI is not replacing workers: ‘We’re not seeing that kind of data at all’

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28.01.2026 5

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CEOs, long silent on Trump’s immigration crackdown, seem to hit their breaking point over killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota

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Can Davos fix the ‘insular’ mindset that’s dominating business? It’s a place to start

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23.01.2026 6

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Trust has become the crisis CEOs can’t ignore at Davos, as new data show 70% of people turning more ‘insular’

Trust guru Richard Edelman worries that time is running out for leaders to rebuild trust.

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PwC’s global chairman says most leaders have forgotten ‘the basics’ as 56% are still getting ‘nothing’ out of AI adoption

PwC's Mohamed Kande talked to Fortune about the "tri-modal mandate" for leaders to execute, transform and build: "I've not seen that in 25 years."

19.01.2026 9

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Trump and his Greenland threats are set to dominate a high-stakes World Economic Forum in Davos

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AI is becoming baked into health care. Now CEOs are focusing on patient and practitioner outcomes

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The new CEO leading Saks Global through bankruptcy follows a management philosophy of ‘leading with love’

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Leaders are increasingly worried about an economic downturn, inflation, and an asset bubble bust

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One reason CEOs tie layoffs to AI? It motivates remaining employees to adopt the technology

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12.01.2026 10

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CEOs reveal how they train their bodies and minds for the ‘marathon’ job, from playing chess to ‘energy management’

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09.01.2026 7

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What CEOs need to know about the new ‘Donroe’ doctrine

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The CEO trying to revive some of what made GE so special

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Before Maduro’s ouster, opposition leader Mariá Corina Machado said Venezuelans should run their country: ‘We know what we need to do’

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05.01.2026 10

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GE HealthCare CEO Peter Arduini is forging a new chapter for the $20 billion-a-year business while drawing on Jack Welch’s legacy

Arduini is trying to channel the ‘GE of old’ as he pursues a world where ‘health care has no limits’

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