When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in October that he was giving up running the tech company’s commercial businesses, he said that he was doing so to increase his focus on Microsoft’s technology work—and very specifically on AI. Nadella explained that Microsoft’s continued success would depend on equipping customers with new artificial intelligence capabilities…
Incoming Walmart chief executive John Furner started at the mega retailer as an hourly employee stocking shelves. Now, the largest U.S. company by revenue is counting on him to guide it through its next chapter. CEO Doug McMillon announced his retirement in November after a decade as leader of the No. 1 company on the…
CEOs have had it with meetings. They see them as unproductive time-sucks that clog up calendars and sap creativity. And they’ve taken drastic action to rid their workplaces of unnecessary brainstorms. In recent years, Shopify cancelled all recurring meetings with more than two people to free up employees to work on other tasks. At Block,…
As the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla led the team behind one of the most consequential medical breakthroughs of the modern era: the COVID-19 vaccine that saved millions of lives. Yet the leadership mindset that guides Bourla as he runs a nearly $150 billion pharmaceutical giant isn’t just about science or strategy. It’s about psychology—specifically,…
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says he used extreme team-motivating tactics to meet seemingly impossible deadlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a conversation with Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell on the Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla admitted to using what he called “emotional blackmail” in order to create and deliver…
Incoming Target CEO Michael Fiddelke has broken his silence about recent violence in a message to employees on Monday, after a second fatal shooting in the corporation’s home base of Minneapolis over the weekend. “We’ll have time to talk very soon about our plans to move Target forward, but right now, as someone who is…
Double Harvard grad Adam Presser is taking the helm of TikTok’s new U.S. joint venture—and he’s looking to turn a regulatory reset for the Chinese company into a lasting success. Presser previously served as TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s chief of staff between April 2022 and July 2023 before working his way up to head…