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Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Minneapolis Institute of Art In domain after domain, AI has compressed work that used to be expensive — generating drafts, code, prototypes, and analyses. The marginal cost of a first attempt has dropped sharply. What remains expensive is what happens after the output arrives: evaluating what gets generated. That involves separating

Matt Harrison Clough As organizations like Amazon, PwC, and Microsoft have announced AI-fueled layoffs, it’s no surprise that half of Americans have expressed concern about AI’s larger potential impact on their jobs. Of course, companies can attribute layoffs to AI efficiencies while trimming workforces for various reasons. Yet there is no question that artificial intelligence

Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images For tech companies worldwide, expanding into a new market is both a rite of passage and a moment of truth. It represents the transition from early promise to meaningful scale — an opportunity to increase revenue, signal growth potential to investors, and unlock powerful sources of differentiation, such as

Michael Austin/theispot.com The Research The authors conducted in-depth interviews with senior leaders with direct experience guiding large, complex systems through unexpected shocks. Their sample included a former prime minister, CEOs, board chairs and directors of multinational corporations, a central bank governor, a national chief of defense, and a national fire marshal. Participants represented a diversity

Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images AI promises to make managers more productive and give them access to more information more quickly. It can draft plans, summarize reports, and even coach you on how to deliver feedback. Yet the same technology that accelerates decision-making can also erode your judgment, if you let it. Rely on

Aleksandar Savic Many investors rely on Morningstar for independent financial analysis and insights, but few people are familiar with the company behind the ratings. From Morningstar’s origins rating mutual funds, the company has expanded its product line, customer base, and global footprint and realized a tenfold increase in revenues and profits between 2005 and 2025.

Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images For decades, human resource leaders have talked about the need to shift their focus from having responsibility for compliance to acting as architects of talent strategy. And for decades, the pattern of HR being stuck in age-old roles has persisted. But there is new pressure to redefine the role.

In this episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, host Sam Ransbotham speaks with Taylor Stockton, chief innovation officer at the U.S. Department of Labor, about how artificial intelligence is reshaping the workforce. Taylor emphasizes that AI is having an economywide impact, transforming tasks within nearly every job rather than affecting only certain industries

Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Most advice about leadership communication focuses on presentation skills: Be concise, be clear, tell better stories. But the most consequential leadership communication happens in meetings where tough issues are being discussed and real decisions are being made. Even some of the most skilled leaders find themselves in moments where

Aleksandar Savic After World War II, Goldman Sachs ranked 10th among the top 30 U.S. investment banks. Twenty-seven of those once-mighty Wall Street rivals, including Salomon, Lehman, and First Boston, have been relegated to the annals of business history. Goldman, in contrast, is a global powerhouse, employing more than 46,000 people, operating in more than