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Okta’s President and COO says companies are in denial about the hardest part of the AI revolution: redesigning work itself
The President and COO of Okta has agents on his team. He’s named them—Leo, Sloan, Hank, Walker—and they show up in…
6 years of jersey design, 4 years of prep, 4 weeks of games: Execs at U.S. Soccer and Nike know how much this World Cup means
With less than two weeks until kickoff, the 2026 World Cup—co-hosted by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico—has not been without…
Cognizant CEO is swimming against the tide on AI: he’s hiring over 20,000 graduates this year and says AI tokenmaxxing is a ‘vanity metric’
For months, the loudest voices in artificial intelligence—including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei—warned that entry-level white-collar jobs were…
‘Nobody’s safe’: Cognizant projected 90% of jobs would be disrupted by 2032—but we’re beyond it 6 years early
In 2023, Cognizant researchers made a prediction that, by their own admission, made people think they’d lost their minds: by…
Terry Rasmussen didn’t set out to run a Fortune 500 company. She began her career as a dental hygienist, paid…
State Street bucked the AI trend by ditching outsourcing for in-house operations to cut costs. It’s working, COO says
For more than a decade, State Street operated joint ventures that allowed the financial services firm to off-load some IT…
More than 50% of the physical toys that Hasbro produces are made in China. That has put the G.I. Joe…
Recharge weeks and ‘no-meeting Wednesdays’: How execs at BNY and Asana are balancing RTO policies with increasing flexibility
It’s 2025, and bosses are still trying to figure out the best RTO policy. Despite employee backlash, business leaders are…
Carvana cofounders say their opposite personalities helped drive their company’s success
Carvana CEO Ernie Garcia met the company’s COO, Ben Huston, when they were college students at Stanford. Neither imagined that…
This Cognizant executive says the $37 billion company is abandoning hierarchy and adopting a culture of accepting failure
Cognizant executive Ganesh Ayyar says that AI will impact his company’s culture by removing hierarchy, driving experimentation, and removing the…












