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When companies massage earnings reports to make profits look larger, do investors buy it? In some cases, they don't. That's the lesson from new research by John McInnis, professor of accounting at Texas McCombs.
The results are "comforting," he says, indicating that current accounting rules give investors enough information to make informed decisions. READ MORE
Microsoft's early investments in OpenAI may seem like a no-brainer today, but Satya Nadella says the company and its founder, Bill Gates, saw the decision as a risk back then.
Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, less than four years after its founding. The company has since invested over $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker. READ MORE
America is facing a demographic nightmare that could change the nation forever.
For decades, experts warned that falling birth rates would eventually chip away at population growth. But few imagined the reckoning would come this soon - or this brutally. READ MORE
In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake. READ MORE
Microsoft on Thursday rolled out a series of artificial intelligence upgrades to Windows 11 that would make its Copilot AI assistant more appealing to users by making it easier to automate tasks and connect with services across devices.
Users can now use the wake word "Hey Copilot" to activate the AI assistant and execute voice commands in a new opt-in feature on any Windows 11 PC, Microsoft said. READ MORE
Lucy Jackson uses a phone that can do little besides make a call and, with some effort, send a text. That complicates life for a college freshman in 2025.
But for Jackson, who uses paper maps and calls the local cab company when she needs a ride, the added challenges of low-tech life are a small price to pay.
“I have a lot more appreciation for things that I can’t access readily at my fingertips, like any kind of media,” said Jackson, 17. “It is a little bit harder to make friends with people and keep in contact.” READ MORE
Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos predicted on Friday gigawatt-scale data centers will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years and that continuously available solar energy meant they would eventually outperform those based on Earth.
Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the surge in artificial intelligence to the internet boom of the early 2000s, urging optimism despite the risk of speculative bubbles. READ MORE
The U.S. economy is very close to falling into a damaging contraction — and many states are already experiencing a recession, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
Zandi estimates that 22 states plus the District of Columbia are now experiencing persistent economic weakness and job losses that are likely to continue. Another 13 states are treading water, he noted. READ MORE
While AI is figuring prominently into executives’ strategic plans, new global research has found a significant AI readiness gap, as workers report being ill-prepared to use and work alongside the technology.
According to the report, Learning Reinvented from Accenture, 84% of leaders surveyed expect regular human-AI collaboration within three years; yet, only 26% of workers say they have received training on how to collaborate with AI. READ MORE
The overwhelming majority of tech industry workers use artificial intelligence on the job for tasks like writing and modifying code, a new Google study has found.
The report, coming from Google’s DORA research division and based on 5,000 responses from technology professionals around the world, found that 90% of respondents are using AI in their job, up 14% from last year. READ MORE
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday flagged the softening labor market after policymakers trimmed the benchmark interest rate by a quarter point to a range between 4% and 4.25%. Citing weakness in the job market, they forecast two more quarter-point cuts this year.
“Payroll job gains have slowed significantly to a pace of just 29,000 per month over the past three months,” Powell said at a press conference after the Fed policy decision. READ MORE
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is urging caution about the outlook for the U.S. economy amid persistent uncertainty over the impact of tariffs as well as geopolitical headwinds.
"I think you better be careful on that one [on the economic impact on the U.S.], because some of these things have long cycles. So we don't know yet. People are expecting these things to happen right away. But actually, a lot of them haven't happened," Dimon said in an interview on the "Office Hours: Business Edition" podcast released Wednesday morning. READ MORE
I could really use an executive assistant right now. Between work and all the kid stuff that comes with a new school year, it’s hard to keep the calendar straight and the fridge stocked.
Trouble is, I’m not an executive. READ MORE
Harris started looking for his first real job months before his graduation from UC Davis this spring. He had a solid résumé, he thought: a paid internship at a civic-consulting firm, years of volunteering at environmental-defense organizations, experience working on farms and in parks as well as in offices, a close-to-perfect GPA, strong letters of recommendation. He would move anywhere on the West Coast, living out of his car if he had to. He would accept a temporary, part-time, or seasonal gig, not just a full-time position. He would do anything—filing paperwork, digging trenches—to build his dream career protecting California’s wildlife and public lands.
He applied to 200 jobs. He got rejected 200 times. Actually, he clarified, he “didn’t get rejected 200 times.” A lot of businesses never responded. READ MORE
Most conversations around proxy voting focus on shareholder proposals and executive compensation. Meanwhile, the most significant votes tend to fly under the radar: director elections. Boards of directors play a vital role in representing shareholder interests by overseeing a company’s strategic direction, monitoring management and ensuring accountability for the creation of long-term value.
Director-election votes can be a powerful tool for weighing in on material governance issues. Increasingly, investors are doing just that. In the 2024 proxy season, directors who chaired their board’s nominating and governance committees received 5% more dissenting votes on average, reflecting investors’ willingness to hold specific directors accountable for board composition and broad governance concerns. READ MORE
All too often, good leadership is viewed as a more enticing and important topic than good management. People aspire to be leaders; they are trained to be managers. Many don’t even want to be referred to as a manager because the word itself has a bit of a PR problem.
And who can blame them? After all, leaders cast vision and point to the future. Managers review performance and point out problems. Leaders inspire. Managers inspect. Leaders throw great parties. Managers throw out non-reimbursable charges from an expense account. READ MORE
In my work advising high-growth companies, I often see founders hit an invisible wall, typically around the $25 million ARR mark, where the very instincts that made them successful begin to stifle their company’s growth.
A recent example illustrates this “Operator’s Trap”: the CEO, a brilliant leader, was still approving every proposal and personally reviewing customer tickets. While from the outside the business looked strong, the problem crystallized when a competitor made a strategic move no one on his team saw coming. And the reason became painfully clear—the leader responsible for scanning the horizon was buried so deep in the day-to-day that he could no longer see beyond it. READ MORE
The debate over AI’s impact on the workplace has moved from speculation to reality, as evidence of jobs lost to AI emerges. New research from Stanford University analyzing millions of payroll records through July 2025 reveals that generative AI is already creating significant employment disruptions.
This research represents one of the first large-scale, real-time analyses of AI’s impact on employment, according to report co-author Erik Brynjolfsson. Titled Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence, the study used comprehensive payroll data from ADP, covering millions of workers across tens of thousands of firms. READ MORE
The newest data showing labor market weakness puts at loggerheads both sides of the Fed’s dual mandate to maintain stable prices and ensure maximum employment.
The U.S. has expanded payrolls by just 598,000 in 2025, the slowest increase of any year since the pandemic. Meanwhile, inflation, as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index minus food and energy prices, edged up in July to 2.9%, well above the Fed’s 2% inflation target. READ MORE
“Chief diversity officer” was once Corporate America’s hottest job.
Now corporate America has retreated from DEI and slashed thousands of jobs. So where does that leave the people who’ve built careers around that work?
Hear the story of one veteran executive who’s been job-hunting for more than a year. READ MORE