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Diane Brady

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Former Siemens and Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld dismisses the idea of work-life separation: ‘You are one person’

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What CEOs are saying about the alleged AI bubble

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20.08.2025 20

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How GoodRx CEO Wendy Barnes is trying to halve the cost of GLP-1 obesity drugs

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19.08.2025 10

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Pop culture and politics are intertwined in the age of Trump. Just look at the Paramount-Skydance merger

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18.08.2025 10

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This cybersecurity company’s AI hacker can locate files on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers ‘in less than five minutes’

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15.08.2025 10

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There’s a small problem with Trump’s export deal with Nvidia and AMD: The Constitution says it’s illegal

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14.08.2025 20

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How CEOs deal with Trump: Praise, face time, remorse, and gifts made of gold all go a long way, experience shows

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13.08.2025 20

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What CEOs really think about Nvidia and AMD’s China export deal: ‘Brilliant, a tariff that we don’t have to pay’

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Rolls-Royce CEO Tufan Erginbilgiç: ‘You can’t always influence the macro stuff but you influence how you deal with it’

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11.08.2025 10

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The 5 things you need to ‘really create magic’ with AI: the LLM, the context, the prompt, the workflow, and the evaluation

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08.08.2025 20

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What CFOs say about AI when they’re speaking off the record

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WM CEO Jim Fish on sustainability in the waste, recycling, and landfill industry

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06.08.2025 10

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The fall of Elon Musk down Fortune’s 100 Most Powerful People in Business list shows how power is impermanent

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05.08.2025 10

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Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once claimed the jobs numbers were faked. How did that turn out?

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04.08.2025 10

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Global warming and CEO leadership (but make it funny!)

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01.08.2025 20

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Warren Buffett’s advice to Brooks CEO: ‘Make sure the brand is stronger at the end of the year than it was at the beginning’

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31.07.2025 20

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AI is creating two-person companies that scale

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30.07.2025 10

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BYD overtakes Tesla on Fortune’s Global 500 as once-dominant U.S. companies feel heat from foreign rivals

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29.07.2025 30

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‘Epstein will forever be a loser in people’s minds and Donald Trump doesn’t hang out with losers,’ a Trump insider says. ‘It’s off-brand’ 

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25.07.2025 10

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NIQ CEO on going public: ‘We’re sitting on a goldmine of data. We cover 85% of the world’s population’

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24.07.2025 10

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UniCredit withdraws offer to buy rival Banco BPM, blaming Italy’s government

UniCredit withdrew its offer blaming the "golden power" restrictions exercised by the Italian government.

23.07.2025 5

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With China now an adversary, this early Google investor wants the U.S. to bet on India instead

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23.07.2025 10

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Penny Pennington of investment advice firm Edward Jones: ‘We’re a wealth and wellbeing company’

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18.07.2025 10

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Yahoo’s Jim Lanzone: People ‘think that Nike happened overnight or they were just brand geniuses—it took years’

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16.07.2025 10

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Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman talks about why the company lagged rivals in AI—until now

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15.07.2025 3

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We may never hear Linda Yaccarino’s side of the X story: ‘There’s always a nondisclosure where you can’t set the story straight’

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11.07.2025 10

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Coursera founder Daphne Koller on receiving a MacArthur genius grant: ‘It wasn’t me’

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09.07.2025 10

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Joe Kiani is back: After being ousted from Masimo the billionaire has returned as CEO of Like Minded Labs

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08.07.2025 10

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Booz Allen Hamilton may have been a DOGE target—but its CEO is still bullish on his biggest client

Recent global conflicts mean that spending on national security may go up, predicts CEO Horacio Rozanski.

05.07.2025 10

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1 in 343 job applicants is now a fake from North Korea, this security company says

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02.07.2025 20

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8% GDP growth?

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30.06.2025 10

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Accor Group CEO Sébastien Bazin: ‘Anybody who’s waiting for the day after tomorrow is just an idiot’

Also: Trump wants to name a new Fed chair early.

26.06.2025 10

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Lattice CEO: AI will flatten the difference between entry level staff and the C-suite

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24.06.2025 7

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Booz Allen Hamilton CEO: ‘It’s good to have options in dealing with Iran’

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23.06.2025 10

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The art of debate, as not demonstrated by Senator Ted Cruz

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20.06.2025 10

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DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez: The Trump administration is ‘very aggressive in trying to change the trajectory of health care’

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19.06.2025 20

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Autodesk CEO fights declining industry optimism around AI

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18.06.2025 10

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Cushman & Wakefield’s Michelle MacKay on the advantages of board-to-CEO leaders

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17.06.2025 10

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General Mills CEO Harmening: ‘We don’t sell Cheerios in the morning and then think about sustainability in the afternoon’

Also: Israel-Iran conflict enters fourth day, Trump orders more mass deportations.

16.06.2025 10

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Your digital twin: The AI version of you

The big story: Trade talks with China.

10.06.2025 10

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Ray Dalio on America’s $37 trillion debt problem

Also: Trump urges confrontation with LA protestors.

09.06.2025 10

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Fortune 500 measures return on leadership

Also: Trump brings back travel ban, big investors turn away from the U.S., and job growth slows.

05.06.2025 10

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Papa Johns gets cheeky to power its comeback

Also: OECD cuts growth forecast, Meta plans to replace workers with AI, and Chime sets IPO price.

04.06.2025 3

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Welcome to the Fortune 500’s 71st annual edition

Also: China accuses U.S. of violating trade truce, law firms punished for appeasing Trump, and IBM’s new path ahead.

02.06.2025 10

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UnitedHealth Group has an unusual new CEO pay package

Also: U.S.-China trade talks stall, SEC drops Binance lawsuit, and Trump gets his tariffs back (for now).

30.05.2025 20

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Ruling against Trump tariffs is a win for the legislative branch

Also: Musk quits DOGE, Nvidia beats expectations, and Instacart announces new CEO.

29.05.2025 10

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Auto giant Stellantis appoints 25-year company veteran—Antonio Filosa—as new CEO to lead turnaround

"The Board selected Antonio Filosa to be CEO based on his proven track record of hands-on success during his more than 25 years in the automotive...

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Health care AI revolution starts with building trust

Also: Stellantis has a new CEO, Musk doubts 'Big, Beautiful Bill', and McKinsey takes a 10% trim.

28.05.2025 10

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Some CEOs still don’t understand how important it is to implement AI—and how little time there is left

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27.05.2025 10

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Andy Jassy’s focus on explaining Amazon’s AI bets publicly is something other CEOs can learn from

Also: OpenAI’s $6.5 billion acquisition and two Israeli embassy staff killed in Washington shooting.

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