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Why LEGO Took 29 Brand Experiences In-House — and Left 11 With Its Longtime Partner
Inside Niels Christiansen's decision to redraw, not end, a 20-year partnership with Merlin…
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How Tufan Erginbilgic Changed the Economics of Rolls-Royce's Engine Business
Rolls-Royce's new CEO didn't just cut costs — he decided the company's own engine contracts were priced wrong, and moved to fix them even as two long-standing airline customers walked to GE Aerospace.
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JOHAN GUTIERREZ: FROM CUBA TO CEO, REDEFINING HOSPITALITY ACCOUNTING
From his journey from Cuba to building Oceanview Financials, Johan Gutierrez is helping hospitality businesses turn financial complexity into clarity, insight and sustainable growth.
Nitin Kumawat
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YARIBEY BARO: REDEFINING BEAUTY THROUGH KNOWLEDGE, WELLNESS AND INTENTION
From professional hairstyling to entrepreneurship, Yaribey Baro is building a beauty philosophy centered on personalized care, hair wellness, education and mindful living.
Nitin Kumawat
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Takahisa Karita: The Integrator Approach to Global Entrepreneurship
Across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, finance, education, AI and Web3, Takahisa Karita has built a career around connecting people, knowledge and opportunities across borders.
Nitin Kumawat
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Toyota Split the CEO Job in Two — And Both Halves Are Now Being Tested
Koji Sato wasn't simply replaced. Toyota concluded his expanding responsibilities required a different leadership structure — and rewrote what the top job means.
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Stellantis’ €22.2 Billion Reset: What Antonio Filosa Changed and What It Cost
Antonio Filosa wrote down Stellantis's own EV assumptions and rebuilt the plan around what customers actually buy. The 2026 results show improvement, but not yet proof.
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Armand Peri: Building Businesses Through Vision, Discipline and Entrepreneurial Drive
From entertainment and real estate to investment, personal branding and executive leadership, Armand Peri’s entrepreneurial journey reflects a career built around opportunity, adaptability and…
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Walmart’s $2.9 Billion Tariff Refund: Why It Put Price Investment First
Walmart received nearly $2.9 billion back on tariffs it had paid, and its finance chief said in May that price investment would be the priority. The bigger impact of that choice is expected in the…
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Kraft Heinz Hired Steve Cahillane as CEO. Six Weeks Later, the Board Paused the Split
Kraft Heinz announced a breakup in September 2025, brought in a new CEO in January and put the plan on hold in February. Seven months on, the company is spending more, earning less and still writing…
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When a New Jet Becomes an Old Asset: Why Emirates Won't Take Boeing's First 777-9s
Emirates has told Boeing it does not want the earliest 777-9s built for it, a refusal that shows what years of delay can do to an aircraft ordered as the future of a…
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Jensen Huang's CUDA Decision: The Bet That Nearly Broke NVIDIA Before It Built It
In 2006, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang put a new computing platform called CUDA into every GeForce gaming card, raising costs by roughly 50% and cutting deep into the company's margins. NVIDIA's market…
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Inside C.C. Wei's $265 Billion Bet: Can TSMC Rebuild Its Taiwan Manufacturing System in Arizona?
TSMC's July 2026 expansion decision tests whether its Taiwan manufacturing system can operate in Arizona while the company manages higher costs, labor constraints and an unsettled funding…
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Lip-Bu Tan Changed How Intel Bets on Its Future — Then Washington Bought In
Inside the capital-allocation reversal that reshaped Intel's approach to chipmaking investment — and the 9.9% government stake that now sits on top of…
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Inside Ola Källenius' $4 Billion Alabama Bet: How Mercedes-Benz Is Rewiring Its Global Manufacturing Network
Mercedes-Benz just marked its five-millionth SUV built in Alabama. Behind the ceremony sits a much larger question: why is a German luxury automaker pouring billions into American factories at the…
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David Ellison Bet Paramount's Future on Scale. The $110 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Deal Now Faces Its Hardest Test
Paramount Skydance out-bid Netflix for Warner Bros. Discovery and backed its own confidence with real money: a $7 billion fee if regulatory action ultimately prevents the deal from closing, and a…
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Brian Niccol's Starbucks Bet: Can a Better Customer Experience Become a Better Business?
Two years into "Back to Starbucks," customer traffic has returned and margins are showing early signs of following. The harder question — whether the recovery can hold without permanent extra…
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Why Raj Subramaniam Split Off FedEx Freight — And What the Decision Is Really Betting On
FedEx Freight’s 2026 spin-off was more than a corporate restructuring. It was a bet that a focused, independent LTL business could make better operating and capital decisions — and deliver stronger…
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Arthur Rego: Losing Everything Taught Him What “Never Give Up” Really Means
"Leadership is not measured simply by the authority we possess, but by the results we help create, the people we help develop and the positive difference we leave behind."
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Inside Masayoshi Son's AI Bet: How SoftBank Is Rebuilding Around AI
Masayoshi Son is rebuilding SoftBank around AI, from OpenAI and Arm to data centers, power and robotics. The strategy is moving from vision to massive capital commitments, financing and…
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The Bet Beneath the AI Boom: What Bruce Flatt Is Actually Building
Bruce Flatt is betting that AI's biggest bottleneck is not models or chips, but the physical infrastructure behind them. Brookfield's Naver and Paducah projects show how that strategy is being built…
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The Dangote Refinery Bet: Why Aliko Dangote Is Bringing Investors into His Biggest Project
Aliko Dangote built Africa's largest refinery almost entirely under his own control. Now, with Nigeria's SEC approving a public listing, he's giving up a small slice of ownership to fund a plan that…
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Why Zoran Bogdanović Is Betting Coca-Cola HBC's Next Growth Story Is in Africa
Coca-Cola HBC agreed to spend $2.6 billion for control of Africa's largest Coca-Cola bottler. CEO Zoran Bogdanović says the bet isn't new territory — it's decades of Nigeria and Egypt experience…
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Fernando Fernández's Bet on a Smaller, Sharper Unilever
Fernando Fernández is reshaping Unilever around fewer, more focused businesses. His strategy is already showing early signs of progress, but the biggest test of his tenure has yet to be completed.
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Patrick R. Coyle: Following the Patient to Understand the Economics
The experienced life sciences finance executive offers valuable insights into how patient access and commercial performance can be understood as parts of the same system.
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Brian Chesky's Bigger Bet: Airbnb Wants to Own the Trip, Not Just the Stay
Airbnb spent a decade positioning itself as the alternative to hotels. Now it's adding hotels, car rentals, grocery delivery and airport pickups — and betting that owning more of the trip, not just…
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When Salesforce Came Under Pressure, Marc Benioff Made a Hard Choice
In January 2023, Salesforce cut a tenth of its workforce as two activist investors circled and the company's stock had lost more than half its value. Three years later, the numbers show how far…
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Inside JPMorgan's Two-Seat Bet on Life After Dimon
JPMorgan elevated two executives to Co-President without naming a successor to Jamie Dimon — and backed the move with tens of millions in retention awards. Here's what the record actually shows.
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Michael Dell Took His Company Off Wall Street. Twice, Carl Icahn Tried to Stop Him.
In 2013, Michael Dell took his company private after a fierce battle with Carl Icahn. Five years later, Dell returned to public markets after using that private period to pursue a $67 billion…
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The Discipline Bet: Kevin Plank's Wager That a Smaller Under Armour Is a Stronger One
In April 2024, Under Armour's founder came back to run the company he built, and chose to make it smaller. More than two years later — and after 13 consecutive quarters of declining revenue — the bet…
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The Problem Amazon Built a Business Around: How Andy Jassy Helped Turn AWS Into a Trillion-Dollar Ambition
Twenty years ago, Amazon turned an internal engineering problem into AWS. Today, Andy Jassy is overseeing that business at a vastly different scale, with AI demand pushing Amazon toward a $220…
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The Most Overlooked Moment in Healthcare. How Shawn Gibbs Is Reimagining the Patient Gown.
The co-founder and CEO of GIV Gowns believes dignity, coverage and clinical access should no longer be treated as competing priorities.
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The $877 Billion Decision That Defined Tim Cook's Apple
For more than a decade, Tim Cook turned Apple’s enormous cash generation into one of the most aggressive capital-return programs in corporate history. As he prepares to hand the company to John…
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The Decision Behind SpaceX's Next Phase: Why Elon Musk Is Building More Than Rockets
SpaceX's first earnings as a public company reveal a business increasingly built on Starlink and AI, not just rockets — and a decision to build the chip-making infrastructure behind it.
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The Handoff: Inside Sundar Pichai's Decision to Rebuild Google's AI Command Structure
Sundar Pichai has reshaped Google DeepMind’s leadership structure as the company faces growing pressure to move faster in AI. The decision changes who leads day-to-day operations while giving Demis…
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Ton van de Ven Wants to Make Business Networking Accountable
At INC. Business Matchmakers, access is curated, introductions are purposeful, and the real scorecard begins after the meeting.
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The Visionary Leadership Behind Nvidia's Meteoric Rise
Nvidia has emerged as a powerhouse in the technology sector, primarily recognized for its cutting-edge graphics processing units (GPUs). Established in 1993, the company has continually evolved…
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Silencing the Virus Within: William Brandler’s Bid to Turn “Jumping Genes” Into Precision Medicines
Inspired by Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock, the scientist-engineer behind L1 Therapeutics is combining genomics, open-source software and AI-assisted development to pursue one of medicine’s harder…
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What the best new CEOs do before they touch the strategy — a field guide to the highest-leverage three months in any executive's tenure.
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