By Stephanie Mehta March 11, 2024 Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up … Continue reading Exclusive: Consumers are putting themselves first, according to new research
By Adele Peters December 07, 2023 Last fall, on a farm in Northern Wisconsin, a farmer spread 1,421 metric tons of crushed volcanic rock on his fields before planting soybeans and corn. The rock dust, from a startup called Lithos, serves two purposes: For farmers, it increases yields. It also helps capture carbon. The … Continue reading Why tech giants are putting $57 million into crushed volcanic rock
By KC Ifeanyi December 07, 2023 For a major artist like Kendrick Lamar, dropping a new album is an event in its own right—and where an artist chooses to do it can carry some weight. So when the L.A.-based rapper journeyed all the way to Accra, Ghana, for the release of 2022’s Mr. Morale … Continue reading How Kendrick Lamar and Global Citizen are putting Africa on the map of touring musicians
Uncover how brand perception and incentives shape customer data-sharing decisions, plus tips for balancing trust and ROI. Joseph Enever on November 3, 2023 This article was co-authored with Dan Gutter, Sr. Research Specialist, covering Consumer and Culture Insights in the Gartner Marketing Practice. Marketing leaders looking to expand their customer database should focus on delivering … Continue reading Putting customers first: The key to successful customer data exchange
Searches For ‘Aspartame’ Surge, Putting Marketers In Difficult Spot by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, July 5, 2023 Marketers of consumable products will have a few challenges this month as searches on Google for information on alternatives to Aspartame surge. Aspartame, the common artificial sweetener used in some Snapple drinks, and products such as Coca-Cola … Continue reading Searches For ‘Aspartame’ Surge, Putting Marketers In Difficult Spot
Making sure generative AI doesn’t go “evil” on you requires putting a human in the loop. But there are going to be a lot of loops. Kim Davis on June 20, 2023 “There is no sustainable use case for evil AI.” That was how Dr. Rob Walker, an accredited artificial intelligence expert and Pega’s VP … Continue reading Mitigating the risks of generative AI by putting a human in the loop
Cherlynn Low @cherlynnlow The age of generative AI is upon us, and this week alone Google and Microsoft made major announcements around their respective products for the masses. While Google unveiled an “experimental conversational AI service” called Bard (April 11, 2023), Microsoft had a fuller slate of news to share at its event in Redmond, … Continue reading Microsoft reveals how it’s putting ads in Bing’s AI chatbot
Meta’s revenue shrank for the first time in its history Nathan Ingraham Facebook parent company Meta has just reported its earnings for the second quarter of 2022, and it was another quarter of shrinking profits. Total revenue of $28.8 billion was only down one percent compared to Q2 one year ago, but net income … Continue reading Instagram is putting ads in search results
Peter Daisyme December 29, 2021 Money for retirement? Is that still a thing? Maybe not. Why bother to save? Global warming. Greenhouse gas. Don’t be fooled. Money and more money are some reasons why a Roth IRA could be the best option for you. Money is still important, whether you think the world is going … Continue reading Are You Putting Money Down For Retirement?
Paul Selby May 7, 2021 Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash For the 2020 tax season, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has pushed back its typical April 15th filing deadline to May 17th. Last year, the 2019 tax filing deadline was extended to June 15th, a much more drastic delay attributed primarily to … Continue reading Putting the “Service” Back Into the Internal Revenue Service
