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Diane Brady

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Kickstarter’s CEO is championing human creativity in a flood of AI

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What CEOs should actually take away from the Democrats’ midterm sweep

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thursday 10

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CEOs need a new playbook after a midterm rebuke of Trump

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04.11.2026 8

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HPE’s CEO says his company has ‘zero exposure’ to AI’s financing web

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03.11.2026 40

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The midterms are a referendum on public trust

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02.11.2026 10

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What every CEO can learn from the collapse of law firm giant Weil Gotshal

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30.10.2026 30

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‘I get more meetings because of the brand’: BlackBerry’s CEO on keeping a famous name

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29.10.2026 30

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Why GM and Hilton are ditching the NYSE for Nasdaq

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28.10.2026 30

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A good buy or ‘the most ridiculous IPO of 2026’: Anthropic’s debut will be a referendum on AI

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27.10.2026 20

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PepsiCo started losing the cola wars when its CEOs lost focus

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26.10.2026 20

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PG&E’s CEO says AI is ‘the best thing that could’ve ever happened to the grid’

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23.10.2026 10

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Investors are still betting on AI, but doubts are piling up

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22.10.2026 20

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The ex-Kellogg CEO who learned he had ADHD at 65 says it had upsides in the corner office

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21.10.2026 20

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Billionaires are giving your kid stock. Should you say thank you?

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20.10.2026 50

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Bill Gross bets AI can help mass-produce 1 million new startups and 100 million new jobs

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19.10.2026 20

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The case for CEOs who can laugh at themselves

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16.10.2026 80

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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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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 20

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

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12.10.2026 90

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

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09.10.2026 30

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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 100

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

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07.10.2026 40

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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 30

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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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05.10.2026 100

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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 30

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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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30.09.2026 200

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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 80

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

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28.09.2026 40

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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 70

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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 20

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

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22.09.2026 40

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The midterms are a stress test for American media

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21.09.2026 30

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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 80

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

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11.09.2026 40

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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 70

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

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08.09.2026 70

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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 50

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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 90

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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 40

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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 70

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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 40

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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 50

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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 100

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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 40

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