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(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) From his spacious offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman believes he has a bird’s eye view on the global energy transition—a momentous shift on which the kingdom’s climate policies could have a major impact,…

A new breed of multi-tasking senior HR executives are suddenly on speed-dial to the CEO.

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) Millions of Americans face consumer debt lawsuits every year and for many low-income families, getting legal advice is limited. A quick Google search can give some generalized information on legal systems, but perusing the internet won’t provide any specific…

Andrea Jenkins continues to make history. In 2017, with her election to Minneapolis’ city council, the transgender activist became the first Black openly trans woman ever elected to public office in the United States. Just three years later, she was thrust into the national spotlight as the council member representing the ward where George Floyd…

As global leaders discuss how to build a better future in a post-pandemic world, business executives weigh profits and purpose

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) PayPal’s CEO and president did not learn his most important business lesson in the C-suite of the $215-billion fintech platform, which he has led since 2014; nor in his previous top jobs at T-Mobile, Sprint, Virgin Mobile or Priceline.…

Most senior executives take the traditional route to the top. APAC president for Medtronic Chris Lee went to Iraq instead. This is his story.

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(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) Nothing in Bernard Looney’s youth suggested that he would find himself, at 50, leading one of the world’s biggest oil giants at the most tumultuous moment in its history. The CEO of the 112-year-old British company was raised in…

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) The battle within Danone—producer of Activia and Oikos yogurts, Silk soy milk, and Evian water, among others—might have been dubbed a “food fight,” had it not erupted in such serious times. But it was no laughing matter. Months of…

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) In today’s youth-centric tech industry, Michael Dell, at 56, is somewhat of an elder statesman. The Dell Technologies chief executive occasionally hosts dinners for young entrepreneurs at his Austin, Tex., home, where guests seek out his advice on matters…

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) Something big is happening in American workplaces. Workers are gaining the upper hand as businesses struggle to mount an economic recovery in the midst of a nearly two-year pandemic. From C-suite offices to factory floors, employees are insisting on…

The Nobel laureate will be announced on Oct. 8