CEO Policy Forum

AI has advanced at an extraordinary speed over the past decade, reshaping how the world works and lives. Business education is no exception, with AI conversation dominating the transformation discourse. The question being asked now is whether business schools are structurally equipped to respond to what it demands. Encouragingly, many AACSB-accredited business schools...

When “Innovation” Coincides With Layoffs: In April alone, more than one in four U.S. layoffs were explicitly attributed to AI—making it the single largest cited cause of job cuts for the second month in a row. At the same time, corporate earnings calls continue to celebrate “AI transformation,” “efficiency gains,”...

The Business of Knowing You: Some retailers have predicted a teenager’s pregnancy before her family noticed—purely from changes in shopping patterns, not a single word spoken aloud. That is not science fiction; it is the commercial logic of modern behavioral prediction. For Big Tech, this capability is no longer an...

This short piece has been written “four hands” together with the talented and smart Fiorella Erni, Cofounder and CEO at Cheetah Stories, a vegan stiletto start-up, whose goal is not just to make shoes, but to redefine the rules of luxury and accessories, while giving women the best of all worlds, made of absolute comfort, beauty and purpose. She is in for...

Fashion is often talked about in terms of trends, seasons, and aesthetics. But for many communities around the world, especially those shaped by displacement and diaspora, it carries something much deeper. It becomes a way of holding onto identity, memory, and belonging when geography no longer makes that easy. At UrbanPal,...

By the end of this century, more than 50 million Europeans will have vanished from the continent. Not through catastrophe or exodus, but through something quieter and more structural: collapsing birth rates, aging populations, and migration patterns that can't keep pace with demographic decline . The latest Eurostat projections show...

One of the most powerful shifts I see in leaders happens not when they add more to their plate, but when they start paying attention to what's quietly draining them. That's where the concept of Energy Vampires comes in, and it's one I return to repeatedly when working with leaders and teams on performance and productivity. Energy vampires...

The CEO of the Universal Health Insurance Authority in Egypt, Mai Farid, reflects on the institutional choices shaping the country’s journey toward universal health coverage, and the lessons they may offer beyond its borders. She shares her thoughts below: Universal Health Coverage rarely fails for lack of ambition. It fails quietly, predictably,...

When a well-known global advisory and consultancy firm’s stock plunged nearly one-third in value late last summer, it shocked our industry. Analysts pointed to slower deal cycles and trimmed government contracts, but what cut through the sideline commentary was a quote from the company’s CEO that “78% of U.S. CEOs are cutting...

For many CEOs and senior leaders, artificial intelligence has long been treated as a technology issue, something to hand over to IT, digital or risk teams. But that mindset no longer reflects the world leaders are operating in. AI is now shaping decisions at the centre of organisational leadership. As AI moves from supporting operations to shaping leadership decisions,...