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The clock is ticking on ESSER funds
Superintendents in the middle of the budget-setting process need to be aware: with the ESSER Funds soon to go away, reporting, supplementing, and storytelling their pandemic-related expenses will be key for longterm student success.
Can Companies Under Anti-Trust Scrutiny Keep The Earnings Growth Coming?
Some of Silicon Valley's biggest names are ensnared in antitrust lawsuits, and it looks like more are on the way. Can tech companies manage to ke...
Reputation Repair: The Potential and Limits of Boeing's Next CEO
Boeing is replacing its current CEO amidst apparent systemic issues with its manufacturing process and a steadily declining stock price. The job of the next CEO will be to steer the badly off-cou...
Your View: Shapiro plan would move Pa. economy into the future, protect the environment, not doom them
Gov. Josh Shapiro's ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Pennsylvania by cracking down on energy companies has drawn ire from the industry and some members of the Legislature, who have called it a "disaster" and a "gift" to...
No Noncompete Clauses? What Does That Look Like?
The FTC's decision to ban noncompete clauses created huge waves in the business community when it was announced last month.
While the react...
Climate Tantrums: Protests Need More Than Soup To Stir Change
Soup throwing has become the protest du jour of climate activists whose attacks on works like Da Vinci's Mona Lisa...
How to Extract Game-Changing Innovations from Your Team
As Apple shutters its plans for a self-driving car, investors (and certainly Apple leadership) are curious about where the company's next big bet will come from. With the speed of innovation rapidly increasing across the market, companies like...
Global Warming Movement Needs Its Own Sane, Donald Trump
With John Kerry stepping down from his role leading the USA's climate policy, it's time for a new guard to step into the spotlight. But, in the face of an increasingly dire climate outlook, the climate movement needs a leader who is unafraid to...
What CEOs can learn from Disney's proxy fight with activist investor Norman Peltz
Disney remains locked in an ongoing struggle with activist investor Nelson Peltz, rejecting his bid for board seats and...
How Far Out Can You Reliably Forecast For Business Decisions?
How far out into the future can business forecasts and projections be reliable - or anything much above worthless? It's a question every entrepreneur and CEO of a young and growing company has asked themselves.
The answer to the...
Crafting An AI-Ready Workforce: The Urgent Need For Ethical Leadership
To no one's surprise, an unbridled AI-led future is not likely to be the laissez-faire utopia Marc Andreesen and his hordes of so-called "techno optimists" make it out to be. Creating an ethical AI future will require ethical executives wil...
The OpenAI Power Struggle Has Implications Beyond OpenAI
With Sam Altman returning to OpenAI the week-long saga that nearly ruptured the world's most powerful AI company is, for now at least, over. But the drama highlights a new power dynamic in corporate America where the "hard" power of executi...
Fear Itself: CEOs Boldly Leading During Uncertainty Are Tomorrow's Winners
Warning signals of a pending recession keep flashing, but the employment statistics keep saying no. The economy's path forward feels remarkably uncertain and has real upside. For example, highly credible experts forecast AI-turbocharged g...
Lessons For CEOs And Boards From Meta's Turnaround
Just a year ago, analysts and investors following Meta were wondering if they were witnessing the beginning of the end for what was once one of tech's brightest stars. The company, one of the 30 most profitable companies in the world, had spent...
Carbon neutrality is harder than you think, but it's worth it
For years now, corporations have been flooding headlines with their ambitious pledges to achieve carbon neutrality. Companies like Amazon, Walmart, and even BP, have vowed to do more to reduce their carbon footprint. But like a well-intentioned n...
Fending Off The Next Social Media Blitz
Recent white-hot controversies have made it clear that companies can't simply explain their way out of a values conflict with their own customers and employees. That means they need to anchor their public identity in their core beliefs and prin...
Tumultuous Times Are The Ideal Moments To Push Forward With New Business Initiatives
Executives at the helm of companies today are driving on noticeably rougher roads than in recent years.
An increasingly tense geopolitical environment means the stability required for global trade and commerce is no longer a given. Do...
What Inspires Your Employees and Customers? That's the Key to Retention
Most blame the pandemic for America's waning commitment to work. In reality, it was just an accelerant.
People began leaving their jobs in greater numbers more than a decade ago. The average monthly quit rate increased by a tenth of...
Directors: Are Your Companies Really Unique?
Every company thinks it's different. Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, many find themselves stuck in a sea of sameness.
Witness how many media firms jumped into streaming strategies, how many automakers started building ele...