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Sheryl Estrada

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Disney CFO says this one sector is critical for driving customer lifetime value: ‘It’s just on fire’

Hugh Johnston also revealed where the company is drawing hard lines on spending.

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AI is rewriting the entry-level finance job

Hiring hasn't stopped, but how junior finance staff learn the job is changing fast.

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Exclusive: AI startup Sapien raises at $180M valuation to help companies find what’s really driving profit

The startup is betting AI can help CFOs go beyond reporting what happened to uncover why financial performance changed.

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Nvidia’s $13 billion Hugging Face bet reveals Jensen Huang’s vision for the next AI battleground

The chipmaker's latest deal shows it is spending big on strategic positioning.

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Charter CFO’s move to Blackstone-Google AI venture signals where finance talent is flowing

Fischer's exit after nearly a decade at Charter marks a bet on AI infrastructure over legacy cable.

03.09.2026 8

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The companies getting the most from AI are rethinking how work gets done

AI adoption is nearly universal, but McKinsey finds only 37% of companies have seen it move the bottom line.

02.09.2026 8

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GE Vernova lands Rivian’s CFO, leaving EV maker to find successor

GE Vernova is betting on the executive who helped take Rivian public.

01.09.2026 6

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The Fed is watching AI token prices. Here’s why CFOs should, too

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh flagged token prices as a window into AI's economics.

31.08.2026 6

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Why Exelon’s CFO is stepping into a new strategy role

As electricity demand surges, Exelon is giving its longtime CFO a bigger say in where the company places its biggest bets.

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Why ‘equal weight’ S&P 500 funds are having a moment—and are up almost 16% this year alone

RSP has topped $100 billion in assets as it outpaces a cap-weighted S&P 500 that's exposed when Big Tech stumbles.

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Nvidia CFO says about half of its data center business comes from customers beyond hyperscalers

Other customer segments are growing faster than the cloud giants that once dominated Nvidia's sales.

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Intuit hits a record milestone of $20 billion in revenue—and sets the stage for a strategic pullback

CFO Sandeep Aujla calls it a “reset to reaccelerate”—Intuit is trading near-term revenue for a rebuilt customer-acquisition engine.

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The S&P 500’s earnings surge looks incredible. Two companies explain why

The index is on track for its strongest earnings growth in years—but Alphabet and Amazon are doing much of the heavy lifting.

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New York added 30,640 tech workers in 3 years, surpassing San Francisco as AI hiring surges

Wall Street's push to hire AI talent is fueling New York's rise, even as San Francisco keeps its title as the top overall tech market.

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CFO turnover at America’s largest companies is on pace to hit 18.3%—the highest since the pandemic

The next generation of CFOs stepping in may be younger and less experienced.

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Klarna wants its next CFO in New York. That’s a signal to Wall Street

Niclas Neglén is stepping down as finance chief, and the company's next CFO will need capital markets credibility, says a recruiting expert.

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Home Depot’s $730 million tariff refund was largely offset by rising costs

Home Depot, Amazon and Walmart are taking very different approaches to the tariff refunds flowing back to retailers.

19.08.2026 10

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The finance skills that are becoming more and more critical in the AI age

Finance leads Heidrick & Struggles’ list of the 15 most in-demand skills amid the rapid rise of AI.

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Cava CFO on growth, AI and why price hikes aren’t on the agenda

Tricia Tolivar explains how Cava is scaling to new markets.

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OpenAI’s CFO insists AI won’t replace judgment

Sarah Friar's five steps for building an AI-native finance team, from access to accountability.

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Boards are expanding the CFO’s mandate—with COO duties increasingly in the mix

Zillow expanded its CFO's role to include COO duties, and Zoetis created a similar combined role for its incoming finance chief.

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ConocoPhillips’ Andy O’Brien steps up from CFO to CEO—the latest sign finance chiefs are winning more top jobs

Ryan Lance will retire as president and CEO on Sept. 1 and become executive chair of the board of directors.

07.08.2026 9

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Lumen reinvents itself as the fiber network behind AI and enterprise—from Anthropic to the Yankees

Lumen President and CFO Chris Stansbury discusses the company's strategic transformation.

06.08.2026 10

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What OpenAI’s finance team is becoming in the age of AI

A look at how OpenAI's finance department blends strategy, AI agents, and judgment.

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JPMorgan Chase, Accenture and others are teaming up on a new venture to standardize how AI token use is measured

J.R. Storment, executive director of the Tokenomics Foundation, explains what finance chiefs should ask their tech counterparts before setting a...

04.08.2026 10

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Aon’s CFO on the No. 1 risk keeping CEOs and finance chiefs up at night

For CEOs and CFOs, the risks aren't just growing—they're colliding.

03.08.2026 10

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Apple shows that AI winners don’t have to build the biggest models

A Fortune analysis looks at Apple's strategy of skipping the AI infrastructure arms race.

31.07.2026 10

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UPS CFO on the lessons learned from scaling back Amazon—and why the strategy is paying off

UPS is seeing margin gains, cost savings, and a clearer path to higher-value growth, says CFO Brian Dykes.

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CFOs are hitting a ‘cost wall’ on AI

Accenture’s Chief AI and Data Officer Lan Guan warns that tokens are becoming AI’s hidden cost driver.

29.07.2026 10

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BNY skipped the ‘tokenmaxxing’ craze. Here’s what AI metrics it tracks instead

BNY CFO Dermot McDonogh says AI success is not measured by prompts burned or tokens consumed.

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Capital One’s MLB partnership is turning fan experiences into long-term customer value

The company is using All-Star activations and cardholder-only MLB perks to deepen customer experience.

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Capital One’s big bet on baseball—and why they think it can help win the credit card loyalty wars

By investing in fan experiences, local entrepreneurs, and long-season MLB sponsorships, Capital One aims to deepen cardholder engagement beyond...

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Inside Larry Culp’s playbook for fixing GE

A new Fortune report offers a deep dive into GE’s transformation.

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AI coding company Cursor, soon to be acquired by SpaceX, expands its CFO council

The council brings together finance leaders from tech-forward and legacy companies.

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Beyond SpaceX: Why great IPOs depend on more than first-day demand

A Fortune report looks at the rules pros use to separate trillion‑dollar hype from durable public‑market returns.

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Jersey Mike’s tests how far investors will stretch on restaurant IPO valuations

Jersey Mike’s is aiming for a near-$8 billion listing, testing investors’ appetite for franchise-driven growth.

21.07.2026 20

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Jersey Mike’s IPO valuation could reach eight times Sweetgreen’s market cap

Jersey Mike’s is targeting a valuation that would rank among the largest recent restaurant IPOs, highlighting the premium investors are placing on...

21.07.2026 20

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How CFOs can tell if AI is actually creating value

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar offers an AI metric that may help finance chiefs separate hype from real value.

20.07.2026 20

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OpenAI’s CFO: 4 questions that reveal if your AI spend is paying off

Forget cost per token. Sarah Friar argues CFOs should judge AI by the work it actually completes.

17.07.2026 20

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Netflix stock hits a 52-week low after earnings—but analysts say investors are missing the bigger picture

There may be a growth story brewing at Netflix that the market is missing.

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Morgan Stanley is riding high on the IPO boom with 70% of the top 100 unicorns in its pipeline, CFO says

Morgan Stanley is turning IPO relationships into recurring wealth revenue.

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Bank of America’s AI bet is starting to pay off, its CFO says

AI‑enabled productivity, not just cost‑cutting, is showing up in the bank’s efficiency ratio and returns, CFO Alastair Borthwick says.

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SpaceX and Amazon look like tech twins—but their financials tell a very different story

A new Fortune report examines why investors are giving SpaceX an Amazon-style valuation.

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Why corporate strategy is moving to the CFO’s office

At a recent McKinsey forum, most CFOs said the strategy function now reports to them.

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Why the 2026 IPO boom is about to broaden beyond AI mega-deals

After SpaceX’s record IPO, investors are starting to eye new sectors.

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Why companies are paying a premium for battle-tested CFOs—and Nike’s struggling turnaround shows what that costs

David Denton, Nike’s new CFO, is coming from Pfizer—underscoring how far companies will go to recruit proven top finance chiefs.

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Companies still don’t know how to incorporate AI in a holistic way, says Wharton expert

The real bottleneck isn’t the models—it’s change management and whether leaders can bring people along to work with AI as a partner.

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Thousands wrote to the SEC about quarterly reporting. A detailed letter came from Exxon’s CFO

Among thousands of public comments to the SEC, a small group of CFOs offered competing views on reporting frequency and disclosure burdens.

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SK Hynix—which supplies memory chips to Nvidia—is about to test Wall Street’s appetite for the next wave of tech IPOs

The Korean memory giant’s nearly 8-fold stock surge and $28 billion U.S. listing will show how much AI optimism is still left in the market.

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Microsoft’s Frontier push aims to turn AI spending into measurable returns

Microsoft is launching a $2.5 billion business unit that focuses on linking AI models, workflows and proprietary data.

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