new video loaded: The Unexpected Impacts of High Oil Prices Our chief economics correspondent, Ben Casselman, breaks down how gasoline prices have responded to the oil crisis in the Persian Gulf, and what is in store for inflation if the price of oil remains above $100 per barrel. By Ben Casselman, Sutton Raphael, James Surdam,…
“Mindy,” a chief transformation officer at a growth biotech firm, was six weeks into a transformation when the data told her what her senior team couldn’t see: Engagement scores had dropped 40%. Turnover had doubled. And no one at the executive table had seen it coming. Source: Read Full Article
Share buybacks are widely misunderstood. This is true not only for investors but also for boards of directors. At the highest level, boards approve repurchase authorizations as “capital return,” much like dividends. But today, a growing share of buybacks represent not a payout choice, but an antidote to dilution of shares issued for stock-based compensation…
Organizations are spending significant dollars on AI. According to one estimate, U.S. companies spent $37 billion in 2025 for generative AI alone. Increasingly, senior executives and boards are asking about returns and there are looming consequences for leaders that don’t have good answers. Seventy-one percent of global chief information officers in a recent survey said…
Why do some companies outperform others even when they adopt the same operational improvement practices? For instance, in banking, HSBC, Bank of America, American Express, Citi, NatWest, and Westpac have all implemented Lean, Six Sigma, and similar Operational Excellence practices. Yet their outcomes vary widely. Some, such as Bank of America and HSBC, have gained…
Leaders and consultants are increasingly turning to large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT as silent partners in the boardroom. These tools promise to summarize complex information, produce clear arguments, and offer polished strategic recommendations in seconds. But as LLMs are integrated into executive workflows, a critical question emerges: How good is their advice? Is…
Leaders must build systems that turn continuous transformation into something employees help shape, not simply endure. by Rachel DuRose March 12, 2026 Research from Gartner suggests that the average employee experienced 10 organization-wide strategy shifts in 2022 (a sharp increase from the reported two changes in 2016). Yet, employee willingness to support these changes plummeted…
No Smoking Day, observed on the second Wednesday of March, aims to spread awareness about the harms of smoking. This year, it was on March 11. According to the World Health Organization, men smoke far more than women in India, but the numbers have declined between 2000 and 2025. Tobacco expenditure rose highest among…
The rupee depreciated on Wednesday, tracking the rise in crude oil prices and selling in domestic equities, dealers said. The local currency settled at 92.04 per dollar against the previous close of 91.81 per dollar. Intensifying geopolitical tensions in West Asia over the past two weeks have heightened risk aversion in global…
Healthcare has always struggled with translation. Not between English and other languages but between the dialects spoken by different corners of the industry. Radiologists write in precise measurements. Psychiatrists craft narrative assessments. Oncologists think in probabilities and protocols. Even the word “stable” means different things to different specialists—sometimes “unchanged,” sometimes “improving,” occasionally “precarious but holding.”…
