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How To Close The AI Security Gap

How To Close The AI Security Gap

AI brings both risk and opportunity to businesses. Stu Bradley, the senior vice president for risk, fraud and compliance for data management and...

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220 Years Of Staying Power: How Colgate-Palmolive Continues Growth

220 Years Of Staying Power: How Colgate-Palmolive Continues Growth

Colgate-Palmolive isn’t quite as old as the United States, but it’s close. The stable of household essential brands turned 220 this year. It’s...

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What CFOs Need Before An IPO

What CFOs Need Before An IPO

After some slow years for public debuts, 2026 is a banner year for IPOs. This year has seen the biggest-ever IPO, with SpaceX’s blockbuster market...

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How Loyalty Drives Growth At Cava

How Loyalty Drives Growth At Cava

Brett Schulman started his professional career as an investment banker, and though he loved the principles of finance, he found his job unfulfilling....

24.08.2026 4

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A Leader’s Guide To Agentic Governance

A Leader’s Guide To Agentic Governance

In an interview, Yahoo CISO Sean Zadig told me agentic AI is putting storied tech firms—even giants like Yahoo—in uncharted waters. “As an...

17.08.2026 10

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Why AI Will Always Need Humans

This year, data management and analytics platform SAS is among the first in the software space to celebrate the milestone of 50 years in business....

13.08.2026 9

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How Bayer Used AI To Increase ROI On Targeted Ads

People in the marketing business know that the true power AI unlocks has more to do with improving strategies and targeting, and less to do with...

12.08.2026 20

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How CFOs Can Plan Amid Today’s Uncertainty

When President Donald Trump was elected to his second term, he made it clear that he would lean heavily on new tariffs. The last year and a half has...

11.08.2026 10

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How To Lead A Company Through Activist Pressure

Twilio was founded in 2008 as a voice API company, and quickly grew into something much bigger. It went public in 2016, and business boomed as the...

10.08.2026 10

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How Google Cloud Designs AI That Integrates, Not Just Innovates

AI alone won’t transform your business. It has the potential to speed up workflows, improve CX and sales, perform useful research in seconds, and...

06.08.2026 10

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The CMO Behind WeWork’s Brand Reset

At Forbes, we consistently recognize the best in business and innovation, but this week we got to do it from an entirely different platform. I was...

05.08.2026 10

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Why CFOs Need Supply Chain Visibility

Business today has a deep and ever-changing degree of global challenges. The ebb and flow of the U.S. war on Iran has been roiling commodity access...

04.08.2026 10

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Why AI Governance Is More Important Than Speed

KPMG U.S. Chair and CEO Timothy Walsh has spent his entire career with the audit and advisory firm. “My last non-KPMG job was at the Olive Garden...

03.08.2026 10

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The AI Math To Do Before Laying Off Employees

In the past year, many companies have made headlines for massive job cuts because of AI automation. And while these cuts have quickly reduced...

30.07.2026 10

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Marketing Meets Music: How Brands Are Striking The Perfect Melody

It’s been nearly 45 years since MTV launched, making music videos a part of how people experience music. The craft, messages and distribution of...

29.07.2026 9

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Why Quarterly Reports Aren’t Going Away, Regardless Of SEC Rules

In early May, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins officially announced a proposed rule ending the quarterly reporting requirement for public companies. Under...

28.07.2026 10

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The Weather Company CEO Forecasts Positive Disruption

Weather Company CEO Rohit Agarwal told me his move almost two years ago to helm the leading forecast company, coming from music streaming company...

27.07.2026 10

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Putting Together An Enterprise Bring-Your-Own-Agent Policy

When Jim Szafranski worked at now-IBM company MaaS360 in the early 2000s, the smartphone revolution began—and employees at all levels wanted to...

23.07.2026 10

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The Strategic CMO: How JLL Blends Tech, Data And Brand

B2B marketing has changed dramatically in the last few years. While the audience for these messages was once limited to business leaders, some B2B...

22.07.2026 10

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From Cost Center To Profit Center: How To Actually Monetize AI In CX

21.07.2026 10

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Reebok CEO Todd Krinsky Played The Long Game—And Is Aiming For A Brand Rebound

After Todd Krinsky graduated from college in 1992, he decided to try his luck in the sneaker business and got a job in Reebok’s mailroom. Thirty...

20.07.2026 7

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Building An AI Strategy That Lasts

It’s widely understood among business leaders today that AI is becoming table stakes. For it to make a difference, there needs to be a strategy for...

09.07.2026 20

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Google’s AI Spam Rules: What Marketers Need To Know

When Andrew Wheeler first got into the SEO business, he fought old-school keyword stuffing: Hiding keywords that are the same color as the website’s...

08.07.2026 10

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The Big Business Of Buying Comebacks

This past weekend marked America's 250th birthday, and it's worth remembering that without taxes, the country might not exist in quite the...

07.07.2026 10

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The Human Side Of AI: Why One Company Turned Its CIO Into A CDO

02.07.2026 20

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Marketing To Billions Of World Cup Fans: Lessons From Lay’s

Hernán Tantardini grew up in Argentina, where soccer was a way of life. But in the U.S., where he’s now the CMO of PepsiCo’s Lay’s and Food...

01.07.2026 10

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Making AI Work For Your Finance Team

Finance departments at any company can be messy, and AI platforms are often pitched as solutions to straighten out problems, create more accurate...

30.06.2026 10

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How CEOs Can Successfully Navigate Today’s Challenges

While we’re all getting accustomed to operating in an environment in which dramatic changes come on a near-daily basis, that doesn’t mean it’s...

29.06.2026 20

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Stop AI Hallucinations From Compromising Your Enterprise Strategy

AI can do a lot, but Cyara CEO Sushil Kumar has always been grounded in what chatbots actually are: “It’s nothing but a glorified autocorrect or...

25.06.2026 10

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The Social Media Stars Reshaping Mainstream Media

24.06.2026 10

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How CFOs Can Move Beyond AI Tasks To AI Strategy

Every CFO and finance department is moving toward AI, but it’s not a direct journey. Financial professionals often have a very different user...

23.06.2026 20

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How A Long-Term CEO Succession Can Pay Off

When a CEO makes the decision to leave their job, most transitions take place over a matter of months. The incoming CEO has some time to learn about...

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The Black Box Problem: CIOs Need Visibility Into AI Agent Behavior

It seems every company is either using AI agents or working to deploy them across their processes. And while the technology is game-changing, one risk...

18.06.2026 20

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Cleaning Up The Murky Window Into B2B Marketing

Tracking the effectiveness of digital B2B marketing has always been difficult. These aren’t always straightforward customer journeys, since clients...

17.06.2026 10

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The CFO’s Guide To Navigating Pay Transparency And Compensation Fairness

Companies need to find the right employees, but they also need to pay them the right amount, which can be a challenge. Even with less job hopping in...

16.06.2026 30

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How Aetna’s Steve Nelson Pulled Off A Turnaround

When Steve Nelson was hired to lead Aetna in November 2024, he had his work cut out for him. The nation’s third largest commercial health insurance...

15.06.2026 30

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Physical AI: What Companies Need To Know

Yes, AI can improve your writing, analyze your data, help you determine strategy, or mock up designs for a new customer website. But it can also help...

08.06.2026 20

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The VPN Risk Too Many Companies Ignore

We’ve all heard the horror stories of companies hiring full-time remote workers—only to find out later they’re actually based in North Korea and...

04.06.2026 10

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Gaining Visibility In The AI Search Era

AI is revolutionizing everything that marketers accepted as gospel about the online search business. Sure, in years past Google periodically changed...

03.06.2026 10

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The New CFO Mandate: Driving Strategy Through Ambitious AI Adoption

If you’re a CFO, chances are that at the beginning of your career, this job was something else entirely. Modern CFOs are strategists, technologists...

02.06.2026 20

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How CEOs Can Use AI To Speed Up M&A And Integration

M&A deals are up, both in terms of numbers and valuations. Deals with a value of more than $100 million were up 15% February through April of this...

01.06.2026 30

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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...

28.05.2026 10

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 20

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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 30

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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 30

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How Indeed Doubled Productivity With AI

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

13.05.2026 30

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