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Sheryl Estrada

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Centene CEO sees health care’s biggest AI opportunity beyond automation

Sarah London argues that AI’s greatest potential lies not in streamlining billing and paperwork.

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McKinsey: Automation could absorb half of U.S. work hours by 2035. The bigger challenge is skills

Roughly 11 million workers may need new occupations, and many lack the skills or credentials to get there.

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AI skills could mean bigger paychecks for finance talent

Employers are willing to pay more for new hires with AI expertise, but technical skills are only part of what finance leaders need.

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AWS pricing team turns 18-tab Excel model into an AI chatbot to evaluate customer deals, CFO says

Amazon Web Services CFO John Felton says AI’s value goes beyond productivity gains to rethinking how work gets done.

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Meet 10 finance leaders on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Asia list

Finance chiefs at Huawei, ByteDance, and Sony are among the executives recognized in the 2026 ranking.

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Chevron CFO Eimear Bonner built a 20-plus-year career at the company. Now she’ll run its core business

Bonner's path from petroleum engineer to technology chief and CFO has prepared her to lead oil, products and gas.

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Booking Holdings spends nearly $9 billion a year to reach travelers. Its CFO explains how AI is changing trip planning

Ewout Steenbergen says the company is using AI to make travel more personalized and proactive.

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HPE’s $1.2 billion order from Vultr puts its AI networking strategy to the test

HPE is betting that AI networking can turn surging demand into faster revenue growth and higher margins.

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AI is giving CFOs a bigger slice of the C-suite, new IBM data shows

Jim Kavanaugh, IBM’s CFO and SVP of finance and operations, says AI is shifting CFOs from “guardians of stability” to “agents of transformation.”

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83% of CFOs say U.S. stocks are overvalued, even as optimism about their companies rises

CFO confidence rebounds, but executives remain measured in their assessment of the broader economy.

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Bank of America wants AI to do treasury’s grunt work

As AI takes over the manual side of treasury work, the job is shifting toward analysis, oversight, and judgment.

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Fed’s Tom Barkin, a former McKinsey CFO, says the ‘AI Apocalypse’ hasn’t arrived

The Richmond Fed president says companies are investing heavily in AI to boost productivity, but strong earnings are keeping them from making deep...

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McDonald’s bets $8.5 billion on a productivity makeover across more than 46,000 restaurants

McDonald's plan leans on existing restaurants to drive growth as unit expansion slows.

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McKinsey: Cheaper AI models, bigger AI bills

McKinsey experts explain why per-token savings aren't reaching the bottom line, and what leaders should track instead of cost per token.

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In midterm years, October is usually the best month for stocks, with gains 73.7% of the time

Since 1950, September has been the weakest month of a midterm year, and October and November the strongest. Strategists say the setup, so far, still...

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From $2 billion to $112 billion in annual profit: How Apple transformed its business

Apple’s financial evolution reveals the foundation CEO John Ternus inherits as he begins the company’s next chapter.

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Warren Buffett’s last lesson as chair: Culture and capital require different guardians

Buffett’s separates Berkshire’s operating authority from its cultural stewardship.

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AT&T CFO Pascal Desroches reflects on a nearly 40-year finance career before retiring

Desroches shares the lessons behind AT&T's $150 billion network bet, a hard dividend call, and why he says he never hesitated.

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When it comes to rate hikes, CFOs aren’t counting on a ‘one-and-done’

Columbia economist Yiming Ma says the real risk isn't the hike itself, but treating it as an isolated event.

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Finance is the most dominant sector by revenue, new Fortune 500 Europe list shows

The finance sector also accounts for 40% of profit and 14% of the workforce across the Fortune 500 Europe.

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Coca-Cola to invest $10 billion in U.S. growth through 2030, says CFO

CFO John Murphy discussed the findings of a new study and what's driving the company's next phase of investment.

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OpenAI’s IPO wait grows longer as AI safety fears mount

CEO Sam Altman tells Fortune the company won't rush to go public.

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A four-time Fortune 500 CFO makes a huge career bet—on joining Polymarket

Warren Jenson was hired as finance chief amid the company's $1 billion raise and a maze of regulatory risk.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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