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Why Max Levchin wants Affirm to act like your smarter older sister

The fintech founder sees AI threatening traditional lenders by alerting consumers to their hidden fees.
The CEO Signal, with Affirm’s Max Levchin

How Patrice Louvet blends ‘magic and logic’ at Ralph Lauren

The Procter & Gamble veteran has focused the fashion brand by balancing emotion and data.
The CEO Signal

How Bruce Van Saun united Citizens against America’s biggest banks

The superregional lender’s CEO has made a virtue of its place in “the middle of the river.”
Bruce Van Saun, Chairman and CEO, Citizens Financial Group
Courtesy of Citizens Financial Group/Jake Angelo/Semafor

The German founders bringing a Silicon Valley ethos to America’s Greyhound buses

Flix’s André Schwämmlein and Daniel Krauss say Europeans can’t blame their governments for a shortage of startups with global reach.
André Schwämmlein and Daniel Krauss
Courtesy of Flix/Graph Massara/Semafor

Why Coherent’s CEO believes in giving people room to fail

Jim Anderson says the $60 billion photonics group had to take more risk to meet surging data center demand.
Jim Anderson
Courtesy of Coherent/Jake Angelo/Semafor

Why the CEO of an elite law firm sees AI driving more deals

Miguel Zaldivar says Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s smaller rivals will struggle to compete.
Miguel Zaldivar
Courtesy of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader/Graph Massara/Semafor

Why Edward Jones thinks AI can defuse a demographic time bomb

Managing partner Penny Pennington wants to capture financial advisers’ insights before they retire.

How Allianz’s CEO prepares for the risk of ‘huge havoc’

Oliver Bäte says Europe can no longer afford all the options its citizens expect.

The MSCI boss helping Elon Musk get closer to Mars

Henry Fernandez says the index provider has grown by playing soccer, not singles tennis.

How Antonio Neri turned HPE into an unlikely AI stock

The veteran dealmaker says he’s ‘building the best networking business on the planet’.

Former IEA chief says world faces a ‘third oil shock’ despite US-Iran deal

Nobuo Tanaka says the Hormuz crisis has accelerated a seismic shift in the global energy order, but business leaders can learn from it.

How a marathon-running CEO set the pace for Cigna

David Cordani says the insurer had to “actively listen” to rebuild trust with its customers.

Honeywell’s CEO on ‘the brutal truth’ about breaking up an industrial giant

Vimal Kapur says delegation and momentum are the keys to splitting a conglomerate.

Deepak Nath applies pressure at Smith and Nephew

The medtech CEO is standing by his company’s portfolio strategy despite calls to break it up.

How Cisco’s Chuck Robbins gets his team to ‘disagree and commit’

The longstanding CEO says a bad decision that you reverse is better than a delay.

Why an anxious AI romantic now drives Match Group’s dating apps

CEO Spencer Rascoff uses digital “personas” to help the Tinder owner understand its users.

How syringe-maker BD is infusing AI into its medical devices

CEO Tom Polen is turning his 65,000 employees into lean manufacturing “problem-finders.”

Why Allstate’s Tom Wilson thinks CEOs should create more jobs with AI

The insurance industry veteran says executives have an obligation to do hard things.