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    Ideas and insights on pressing issues facing the business world.

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    We need more capitalists, not necessarily more capitalism

    Is the world already nostalgic for American capitalism? The image of America as the land of opportunity may no longer match the economic reality.

    By Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride
    February 3, 2026

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    America’s AI regulatory patchwork is crushing startups and helping China

    By James Richardson and Eric Tanenblatt
    January 30, 2026
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    Struggling to remain relevant during the AI watercooler chat? Talk about your latest ‘new collar’ hire

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    Trump is driving capital out of capitalism

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    January 29, 2026
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    John Hancock CEO: We all have a role in driving better health outcomes for Americans

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    January 29, 2026
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    The real promise of AI isn’t fewer jobs, it’s cheaper thinking

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    January 29, 2026
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    Football snubs Bill Belichick, one of its greatest ever coaches—showing how his unapologetic leadership style came with a cost

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    January 28, 2026
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    How social media upended the 75-year-old playbook of big CPG

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    January 28, 2026
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    Banning investors won’t fix America’s housing shortage

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    January 28, 2026
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    How to fight child hunger in a time of foreign aid cuts

    By Reem Alabali Radovan, Rajiv J. Shah and Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen
    January 28, 2026
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    Coming soon: a lost generation of employee talent?

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    January 27, 2026
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    Yes, you’re getting a bigger tax refund. Your kids won’t thank you for the $3 trillion it’s adding to the deficit

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    January 26, 2026
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    When companies take off like a rocket, how can founders steer the ship?

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    January 24, 2026
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    When AI meets healthcare, how should payers react? 

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    January 23, 2026
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    AI makes human intelligence more important, not less 

    By Bob Sternfels and Lucy Perez
    January 22, 2026
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    Built to last: governance for multigenerational family businesses 

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    January 22, 2026
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    I’m the Napster CEO and I agree with Pinterest: the Napster phase of AI needs to end

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    January 22, 2026
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    Slipping on ICE: innocent retailers are the latest collateral damage from Trump’s perpetual noise machine

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
    January 21, 2026
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    Google Cloud exec on software’s great reset and the end of certainty: we’re shifting from predictability to probability

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    January 21, 2026
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    Davos 2026: reading the signals, not the headlines

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    January 21, 2026
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    The world needs 8.5x higher GDP to give everyone a Swiss standard of living. As leaders gather in Davos, fear of growth holds this back

    By Chris Bradley, Nick Leung and Sven Smit
    January 21, 2026
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    Pinterest CEO: the Napster phase of AI needs to end

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    January 19, 2026
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    I lead IBM Consulting, here’s how AI-first companies must redesign work for growth

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    January 19, 2026
    I have been coming to Davos for 16 years. I have never seen such a crisis in U.S./European relations
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    I have been coming to Davos for 16 years. I have never seen such a crisis in U.S./European relations

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    January 19, 2026
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    Learning and work are converging in an integrated new life template for the AI era 

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    January 19, 2026
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    Geoeconomics is the new geopolitics: Playing offense in the new economy

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    January 19, 2026
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    Building corporate resilience in a fragmenting world

    By Sunny Mann and Anahita Thoms
    January 18, 2026
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    What hiring someone who served 20 years in prison taught us about loyalty at work

    By Brian Koehn and Adam Claussen
    January 18, 2026
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    I oversee a lab where engineers try to destroy my life’s work. It’s the only way to prepare for quantum threats

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    When AI decides how shareholders vote, boards need to rethink governance

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    January 17, 2026
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    Fortune 500 exec: College grads aren’t ready for today’s jobs

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