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Megan Poinski

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The AI Risks CISOs Aren’t Talking About Enough

The AI Risks CISOs Aren’t Talking About Enough

The demands on today’s CISOs are intensifying from every direction. Rapid advances in AI, newly discovered and exploited vulnerabilities, escalating...

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Megan Poinski

Why Big Brands Are Behind In Creator Marketing

Why Big Brands Are Behind In Creator Marketing

Creator marketing is now a major channel that’s growing faster than the broader advertising market, according to the IAB’s 2025 Internet...

27.05.2026 6

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How To Keep AI From Breaking Your Budget

How To Keep AI From Breaking Your Budget

There’s no question that every company needs to include AI in its tech budget. But as costs climb, it’s worth taking another look at what your...

26.05.2026 10

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How AI Speeds Up Post-Merger IT Integration

How AI Speeds Up Post-Merger IT Integration

After the announcement of an M&A deal, there’s a lot to do. It takes more than a financial transaction to merge two companies. People,...

21.05.2026 9

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The Battle For Brand Attention On Streaming TV

The Battle For Brand Attention On Streaming TV

Commercials have always been a part of the television viewing experience. But on streaming TV, the ads often feel more disruptive, oddly placed and...

20.05.2026 8

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How CFOs Should Handle Tariff Refunds

It would be easy to assume that the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down President Donald Trump’s tariffs under the International Emergency...

19.05.2026 10

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How Siemens USA’s New CEO Moved From Legal Advice To Billions In Planned Growth

There are some predictable paths to the CEO’s office, with many climbing the ladder through stints as CFO or COO—jobs that are about both strategy...

18.05.2026 10

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How Indeed Doubled Productivity With AI

14.05.2026 8

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As If! How Savvy Marketers Use ’90s Nostalgia To Capture Gen Z

13.05.2026 7

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How Novo Nordisk’s CFO Is Rebuilding Growth

12.05.2026 10

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The CEO’s Guide To Getting ROI From AI

11.05.2026 10

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What CIOs Need To Know About Legal Liability For Rogue AI Agents

When I first heard about OpenClaw, it sounded amazing. Or, at least I thought it sounded amazing. An AI agent that will run your personal life,...

07.05.2026 10

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Old Brands, New Tricks: Inside Mars’ Digital Marketing Playbook

06.05.2026 10

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How AI Can Transform The CFO’s Office

If you’ve always wanted an assistant but couldn’t justify the headcount, now you can create one (or more) with AI technology. Today’s tools can...

05.05.2026 10

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Why This Third-Generation CEO Says Risk Taking Is Essential

When your family business is the Greatest Show on Earth, there is a lot of pressure to keep everything great—both for your family but also for...

04.05.2026 10

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Why CIOs Must ‘Suck It Up’ And Budget For AI Security

AI and quantum technologies present both opportunity and risk: they can dramatically improve companies' capabilities and accuracy, but they also...

30.04.2026 10

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When Teamwork Drives Marketing Growth

Last year, as Tag Americas’ new CEO Stephen Kiely took the helm, the marketing firm set a goal: 10% year-over-year growth. In order to get there,...

29.04.2026 10

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The Biggest Mistakes CFOs Make When Choosing Payment Tech

While AI can automate more tedious processes in businesses, it’s important to choose the right platforms. Payments can be easily automated, but CFOs...

28.04.2026 10

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A CEO’s Guide To Industry Hopping

27.04.2026 9

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The CIO’s Guide To Agentic AI: How To Move From Experiments To ROI

The latest must-have tech isn’t just AI. It’s AI agents. And while it sounds great in principle to have AI automate routine tasks, many companies...

23.04.2026 10

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How Marketers Can Turn Mountains Of Data Into Intelligence

22.04.2026 10

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From CF-No To Strategic Partner

CFOs have a reputation for control and caution. Some people think their role is to torpedo ideas and tell department heads there isn’t enough money...

21.04.2026 10

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How CEOs Can Drive Change And Still Come Out Ahead

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus is credited with saying the only constant in life is change, but he obviously had no idea how...

20.04.2026 10

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AI’s Biggest Players And Rising Stars

AI is everywhere, so it seems. Just about every enterprise is using it in various ways to increase efficiency, accuracy and research, and the...

16.04.2026 10

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The Modern CMO’s Expanding Strategy

There’s no such thing as a standard CMO job anymore. Responsibilities, procedures and even titles vary among companies. And while few...

15.04.2026 8

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How AI Can Improve Your Financial Close

One of the most important functions of the finance department is closing the books at the end of reporting periods and fiscal years. And it’s also a...

14.04.2026 20

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How AI Will Shift The Executive Pipeline

As businesses adopt AI en masse, many analysts have wondered what its long-term effects will be on the workforce of tomorrow. With AI changing the...

13.04.2026 10

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Moving From AI Risk To AI Governance

AI’s capabilities are multiplying every week, with more possibilities and problems emerging with each new model or application launched....

09.04.2026 10

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The New Marketing Playbook: Lessons From Pharma, Cannabis And Politics

We’re still at the beginning of the age of generative AI, and the technology has already led to several new applications that have dramatically...

08.04.2026 9

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Building Resilience In A Volatile Economy

In JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s annual shareholder letter, he recaps the successes and challenges that both his bank and the U.S. as a whole...

07.04.2026 10

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The CEO’s Guide To Starting A Business

The last year has not been good for employment. Although March posted the highest job growth since December 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor...

06.04.2026 10

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Trump’s Latest Entry Into The AI Policy Battle

When it comes to federal AI regulation, President Donald Trump seems to be dialing back the antagonism and trying to get what he wants through a more...

26.03.2026 30

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How AI Agents Define Your Brand’s Image

Anecdotally, everyone knows there are a plethora of AI agents out there, and they’re browsing the web a lot more often these days. BrightEdge...

25.03.2026 20

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How CFOs Can Unlock Hidden Revenue

As the war in Iran continues, economic optimism is falling—at least for the first half of 2026. Forbes senior contributor Bill Conerly breaks down...

24.03.2026 20

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Ping-Ponging Stock Market Won’t Help Business As Recession Fears Return

While some sectors of the broader economy seem to be slowing down as the war in Iran continues, the stock market and oil prices are ping-ponging up...

23.03.2026 10

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Your Biggest Cyber Risk Isn’t What You Think

Technology and the stock market seem to operate in separate universes. Looking at the stock market this week, one might think it’s a bad time for...

19.03.2026 10

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Expanding Marketing Beyond The Big Moments

While the current business climate is difficult, from a financial standpoint, 2025 was a good year to be a CMO. According to new data from The...

18.03.2026 10

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Why More CFOs Are Turning To ESPPs

Just when consumers thought everything was getting too expensive, prices are set to keep on going up. The war in Iran has spiked the price of diesel...

17.03.2026 20

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Bleak Economic Indicators Add To Business Risk

Business risks are ever present, even in the best of times. But today, it seems the risks are everywhere. Every business ranging from startups to...

16.03.2026 10

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Can Marketers Find Harmony With AI-Generated Music?

My children are starting to outgrow kids’ meals, and the last time we got dinner from McDonald’s, they both asked for Big Macs. Of course, they...

11.03.2026 20

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IPO Timing In An Uncertain Market

It’s a new day for financial regulations in the U.S., with new leaders updating and streamlining the rules that govern both old business...

10.03.2026 10

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How CEOs Can Deal With A World Of Business Risks

The greater impact of the war in Iran is still settling into the economy, but early indicators aren’t good for most U.S. businesses. The Cboe...

09.03.2026 10

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The Pentagon’s AI Contract Scuffle Exposed A Danger To Businesses

Since President Donald Trump’s second term began, he’s had a tight relationship with Big Tech. At his inauguration, tech titans including Mark...

05.03.2026 20

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From Burger Backlash To Brand Opportunity

04.03.2026 10

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The ‘Untapped Gold Mine’ Hiding In Your Business’s Accounts Receivable

Even though President Donald Trump has been talking about taking military action in Iran for months, and made a first foray into the region last June...

03.03.2026 10

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What CEOs Should Know About Wars In Iran And Over AI

I’ve been an SNL fan since high school, and Saturday’s cold open truly resonated with me. James Austin Jackson was playing President Donald Trump...

02.03.2026 20

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The AI Reality Check: Why CIOs Are Getting Burned By Overly Ambitious Deployments

12.02.2026 10

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How CMOs Can Embrace AI And Reject Shiny Object Syndrome

12.02.2026 10

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How CFOs Can Protect Financial Data During Tax Season

11.02.2026 10

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How To Make The Co-CEO Model Succeed

09.02.2026 10

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