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CEOs have become more cautious and strategic about taking public stands on politically charged issues. But upcoming elections will put this measured approach to the test.
The CEO’s role will evolve into something far different: chief ecosystem orchestrator. Responsibilities and the skills required to successfully lead will shift significantly. BCG’s Judith Wallenstein explains how these CEOs of the future could navigate the blurred boundaries among companies, industries, and nations.
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CEO growth is professional and personal. Here’s how you can succeed at both.
CBRE's CEO Bob Sulentic and BCG's Jeff Hill discuss strategies for clearing the clutter out of your day.
Chiefs of staff and administrative assistants play an often-unheralded but critical role in harnessing their bosses' time and energy and amplifying their effectiveness.
The initial 100 days are a time for boldness and clarity—a time when CEOs can express the purest form of their vision for the company.
Do tough times call for tough leaders? BCG’s Joe Davis says that CEOs must be empathetic, vulnerable, and authentic even as they are tough. Society expects it.
Transformative technologies such as generative AI are rapidly changing the way companies do business. As the gulf widens between early winners and hesitant observers, here’s how you can leverage innovative technologies strategically, responsibly, and humanly.
BCG’s survey of 1,400+ C-suite executives reveals that GenAI is quickly changing the way companies do business—and big gaps are emerging between the winners and the observers.
Urgent global challenges are accelerating the development of a raft of breakthrough technologies that could fundamentally transform industries. These five should be on the CEO’s radar.
Today’s large language models are the just start of the GenAI revolution. Companies need to prepare for what’s coming next: autonomous agents that work independently to achieve an assigned goal.
BCG’s Vladimir Lukic considers what’s ahead when companies play with bots in an innovation sandbox.
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A first-of-its-kind scientific experiment finds that people mistrust generative AI in areas where it can contribute massive value and trust it too much where the technology isn’t competent.
Despite the generative AI hype, more than 50% of executives are deeply worried about incorporating it into their operations and so discourage its adoption.
Everyone from customers to investors wants AI done right. CEOs who take the lead in implementing Responsible AI can better manage the technology’s many risks.
Any business that has set sustainability goals, produces a physical product, or supports a business that produces a physical product will need to incorporate one or more deep technologies.
No one understands the unique challenges CEOs face quite like other chief executives. Explore our CEO conversations to learn how your peers spend their time, achieve breakthroughs, and find greater purpose professionally and personally.
The chairman and CEO of the world’s largest asset manager explains how CEOs can combat the climate crisis in ways that create growth and attract investment.
AI is playing a role in facilitating innovation in drug discovery and development at one of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical companies.
This reinsurance giant is using analytical data models to achieve its purpose of making the world more resilient.
The head of this Rotterdam-based energy company believes that it's important to act now on climate change—and jump-start energy transitions in every industry.
A CEO’s strategy impacts the next generation of leaders and talent. Companies with a systematic approach to activate leaders see transformation success rates that are three times higher than those of their competitors that activate leaders. Here’s how you can advance a leadership and talent culture that helps your company keep winning long past your tenure.
By 2030, the best CIO might be a CIB: a chief intelligence bot. And the human CEO might be bolstered by a swarm of CEO bots. BCG’s Mickey McManus envisions a future where top leaders share the corner office with AI—blending logic with human intuition.
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BCG’s Debbie Lovich imagines a world where companies must wow workers—or risk losing essential talent (and profits) to competitors.
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Retention is a complex issue unique to each company, but research suggests a universal solution: doubling down on employee joy.
BCG’s Julia Dhar imagines a future in which AI takes over multiple aspects of middle management.
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When CEOs give employees more agency, they narrow “change distance” and greatly improve the chances of a transformation’s success.
Many people believe burnout is driven by excessive work demands. In fact, it’s driven by a specific type of demand–work that requires too much collaboration between individuals or teams of employees.
Culture can be difficult to pin down, but companies that build a strong innovation culture are 60% more likely to be innovation leaders.
Businesses play a crucial role in tackling the challenges of our times, such as climate change.
How a survey quantifying the responses of more than 27,000 employees proves the business value of inclusion.
Your company’s growth, resilience, and competitiveness depend on how strategically you anticipate, prepare for, and respond to both challenges and opportunities. Here’s how you can create a clear, forward-thinking strategy and initiate bold, nimble moves to drive growth and carve a commanding position in the business landscape.
Most company efforts to reduce expenses fail. Four challenges block the way: two deal with which costs get cut and two are related to how value is delivered.
An analysis of the trade agreements of over 100 economies and trade blocs shows how various governments compare across several measures of trade engagement.
Our third CO2 AI + BCG Carbon Emissions Survey reveals that collaboration, product-level measurement, and digital technology are the keys to progress in emissions reduction.
Scale isn’t dead. But it’s critical to find the right balance between scale and fractal principles—and to do it before your competitors do.
Business strategy is usually born of a highly rational process, grounded in facts and analysis. Storytelling, often associated with fiction and entertainment, may seem like the antithesis of strategy. But the two are not incompatible.
The assumption that business and politics can and even should be kept separate is no longer realistic, the authors write, and messaging from the corporate affairs department is insufficient to defuse political issues when they arise.
In a volatile, uncertain world, successful strategies are those conceived as portfolios of options rather than as roadmaps.
A successful CEO agenda anticipates and prepares for a future that may look very different from today. Stay ahead of the curve with two of BCG’s podcasts: First, Imagine This..., a podcast for CEOs that imagines where the next big disruptions might emerge and explores tangible actions CEOs can take now to get ready. Secondly, CEO Digest, which bridges human insights with AI efficiency to deliver big impact in a short podcast for busy CEOs.
Explore CEO preparedness for future disruptions with Imagine This... by BCG, a podcast that helps CEOs consider possible futures for our world—and their businesses.
Which BCG insights does our AI highlight as most relevant to CEOs this month? The value of transforming before performance stalls, an unexpected opportunity to realign around purpose, and the intersection of AI and water management.
