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How CIOs Can Fix Data Governance For Generative AI

For Halloween, it makes sense to open this newsletter with something really scary: cybersecurity. A study last month from bot protection solution...

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A Look At Key Players In The $250 Billion Creator Economy

As a business tool, AI is hot. A new study from the Plus Company creative agency network and Statista found that 89% of top-level marketers agree...

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Why Sustainability Fits The CFO’s Job Description

Nowadays, a company’s larger story is more than just its quarterly figures. New requirements—from both governments and those who do business—are...

29.10.2024 5

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How Stanley Moves At The Speed Of Culture

Interest rates are down, markets are up and private businesses are optimistic. A report issued last month by KPMG found that 86% of private and...

28.10.2024 6

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Stanley’s 111-Year Reinvention, From Lunch Boxes To Viral Must-Have

The colorful Stanley Quencher has been a very trendy buy for the last several years, but it’s only one of the recent successes of Stanley 1913. The...

28.10.2024 6

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Does Generative AI Suffer From Shiny Object Syndrome?

All the talk about AI and everything it can do for businesses may make it feel like most companies are already using the technology, but a new study...

24.10.2024 10

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Can AI Capture The Emotional Side Of Marketing?

When it comes to controversial advertising campaigns, they usually don’t have to do with income taxes. But a short-lived campaign from enterprise...

23.10.2024 7

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Why The Drop In Luxury Goods Sales Could Be An Ominous Sign

As quarterly results are coming in, fears of a recession are growing. But this isn’t a recession of the general economy—which has more analysts...

22.10.2024 4

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How CEOs Continuously Reinvent Themselves Through The Years

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A New Book Shows Why CEO Tenures Don’t Follow An Expected Narrative

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How CIOs Can Maximize ROI On Enterprise AI Platforms

Even though neither of the candidates on major presidential tickets are talking much about AI, it’s a huge area of concern for tech leaders. Nearly...

17.10.2024 6

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How AI Can Enable Marketing Inclusivity

To quote Stefon, Bill Hader’s iconic SNL Weekend Update character, Austin’s hottest club is a restaurant called Ethos. This place has everything:...

16.10.2024 5

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How SeeMe Index Uses AI To Find Marketing’s Lack Of Diversity

While brands have been called out for a lack of diversity in their marketing, it can be a difficult issue to quantify. Longtime marketer and former...

16.10.2024 6

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When Can We Know If It’s A Soft Landing?

When can we say the economy has achieved a soft landing? With inflation on the way down, job growth better than expected, a bull market entering its...

15.10.2024 5

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A Look At Crunchbase’s AI Journey

The days when it seemed Elon Musk could do no wrong are long over. Some of the controversies surrounding the world's richest person comes from his...

14.10.2024 9

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How Crunchbase’s AI Integration Helps Decision Making

After working at online companies including Twilio and Dropbox, Megh Gautam joined Crunchbase as its chief product officer in summer 2023. He came to...

14.10.2024 5

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How Atlassian Thinks About Developing New Uses For AI

More proof that AI technology should be moving past the hype phase: Two AI pioneers were recognized this week with the Nobel Prize in Physics . In...

10.10.2024 10

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How To Improve Marketing To Hispanics

Political ads on social media are typically designed to grab the interest of a particular voter segment. Some try to catch the interest of young...

09.10.2024 4

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How CFOs Are Preparing For The Future Amid Election Uncertainty

CFOs are taking on bigger leadership roles and more responsibility throughout the business world. A new IDC InfoBrief study commissioned by Billtrust...

08.10.2024 8

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How Atlassian Drives Growth: Listening To Customers And Its Employees

It’s a very good time for unions right now. Last week, organized labor likely notched another victory, as 45,000 members of the International...

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How Atlassian’s Collaborative Culture Helps Companies Work Together

Thousands of companies across the globe use Atlassian’s collaboration tools—which include Jira, Confluence, Trello and Loom—to work together and...

07.10.2024 5

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Should CISOs Be Held Liable For Cybersecurity Attacks?

Considering how controversial California’s SB 1047 was among the tech community, it is not surprising that Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed it. The...

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What The SolarWinds Case Means For CISOs And Corporate Cybersecurity

Beginning as far back as 2019, network management platform SolarWinds was hacked by Russian actors who inserted malicious code into an update,...

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How CMOs Can Work With Influencers And Preserve Brand Safety

What is human authorship? A decade ago, that was a straightforward and easy question to answer. In the days of generative AI, the definition is...

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How The Accountant Shortage Impacts CFOs And Financial Hires

Driving technology, embracing of the strategic importance of a company’s financial functions and an emphasizing corporate sustainability are all...

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How To Set Realistic AI Expectations And Goals For Your Business

Executives are vital to provide leadership to businesses, but they aren’t the only ones. Boards hold an equally important role. Though most boards...

30.09.2024 200

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Will Finances Get In The Way Of Tech Companies’ Optimism?

With so much going on in tech, 82% of executives are optimistic about the future, a recent study from digital insurance company Embroker found. But...

26.09.2024 200

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Why Some Companies See The CMO’s Role As Expendable

As the streaming market matures, is it becoming a good business? Forbes senior contributor David Bloom delved into a recent study from...

25.09.2024 200

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Why This Marketing Veteran Says The CMO Role Should Stay

It’s an on-again, off-again trend: Companies get rid of CMO roles, renaming the role and adding different responsibilities, or making large changes...

25.09.2024 200

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What’s The Right Financial Risk When It Comes To Corporate Insurance?

The stock market isn’t the only indicator hitting record-high valuations this year. Gold values have also been skyrocketing—even outpacing the...

24.09.2024 200

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What Business Leaders Should Know About The Community Economy

It finally happened: Last week, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in four years. The Fed’s policy-setting committee opted...

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Why This Digital Leader Says Community Is The Next Big Social Platform

After spending three years at the online creator platform OnlyFans, and just over a year and half of that as its CEO, Amrapali “Ami” Gan stepped...

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What Should Happen With California’s AI Regulation Bill?

Some of AI’s biggest players, like OpenAI or Meta, aim to make a big splash when announcing their latest model or feature. But Google, which has...

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How CMOs Can Plan For A Corporate Crisis

As the effective date nears for the federal law that will force the sale (or ban) of popular social video app TikTok, a court hearing this week gave...

18.09.2024 200

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How CFOs Can Start Implementing AI In The Financial Department

IBM’s new Global CFO Study finds that CFOs are in a position to make big changes in their companies. Technological innovation, understanding of data...

17.09.2024 200

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How This Video Game Leader Builds Inclusivity And Social Connections

Boeing might have thought it was averting a crisis when it came to a last-minute tentative agreement with the union representing 33,000 of its workers...

16.09.2024 30

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Electronic Arts President Levels Up In The Video Game Space

Video gaming has grown exponentially in the recent past, with nearly 191 million Americans reporting playing games, and 61% of the U.S. population...

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What CIOs Say Is In The Way Of Successful AI Implementation

As AI becomes less of a far-off technological idea and is more of an actual platform companies can readily implement, CIOs are making a potentially...

12.09.2024 200

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Google Defends Its Ad Business: Success Isn’t Illegal

Does Google have a monopoly on the online advertising business? A high-stakes trial to determine whether that is the case kicked off this week in a...

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What A CFO Needs To Know About Recruiting Budgets

CFOs and financial leaders have a new top priority: data security and privacy. A new study released today from consulting firm Protiviti finds that...

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Why This CEO Spends So Much Time Talking To Customers

Even though the economic picture seems to be improving, it’s still a tough time for small businesses. The latest Intuit QuickBooks Small Business...

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How CIOs Can Strengthen A Company’s Digital Core

In these hyper-polarized days, there are few things that most everyone agrees on. But data intelligence platform Collibra has found one: The U.S....

05.09.2024 200

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Why These Top-Level Marketers Solve Problems Anonymously

While AI is poised to change the landscape of many jobs, marketers are extremely skeptical—some of them, that is. According to a recent study on AI...

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How Hasbro’s CFO Drove A Turnaround

Are AI stocks starting to lose their luster? After Nvidia delivered record earnings (again) last week, smashing analysts’ expectations with $30...

03.09.2024 200

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Hasbro’s CFO Isn’t Playing With The Toymaker’s Turnaround

The toy industry as a whole has been in a slump following the Covid-19 pandemic. Toy and game maker Hasbro has been working to turn its business...

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How To Get Past Your Company’s AI Struggles

Not only are bot attacks becoming more prevalent, but they’re also a more significant drain on companies’ finances. While bot attacks are a major...

29.08.2024 200

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The $54.1 Billion Marketing Opportunity Many Businesses Miss

A generation ago, when a person wanted to find a veterinarian, an ice cream shop or a storage unit provider close by, they opened the Yellow Pages....

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Interest Rate Cuts And What Finance Leaders Need To Know

After years of waiting, it’s happening soon: Interest rate cuts are just about guaranteed. Months of slowly abating inflation—buoyed by...

27.08.2024 200

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A CEO’s Guide To Succession Planning

At last week’s Democratic National Convention, President Joe Biden did something that was personally difficult and monumentous: He passed the...

26.08.2024 200

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