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

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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 20

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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 20

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

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01.09.2026 20

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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 10

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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 10

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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 30

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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 20

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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 20

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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 20

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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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20.08.2026 20

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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 20

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Inside Japan’s climate-adaptation playbook

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17.08.2026 20

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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 20

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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 30

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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 10

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 50

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

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28.07.2026 40

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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 30

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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 30

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

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20.07.2026 30

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

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17.07.2026 30

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

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16.07.2026 40

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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 40

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

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13.07.2026 30

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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 40

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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 30

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

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08.07.2026 50

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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 40

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

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02.07.2026 20

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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 40

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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 50

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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 40

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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 40

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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 50

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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 90

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