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Gaming Report 2025

Breaking boundaries to win

Enterprise Technology
How to Hire a CIO
Infographic
AI, Insights, and Solutions
The Future of Financial Planning Is Autonomous
Brief
Retail
Peak Protein? Not Even Close
Powered by the Global Consumer Lab
People and Organization
AI Is Changing Work. Is Your Talent Strategy Evolving Too?
Forbes.com
Mergers and Acquisitions
M&A Midyear Report 2025: Separating the Signal from the Noise
Report

How Customers Are Using AI Search

Market intelligence from Sensor Tower shows a 70% overall increase in ChatGPT use, with a 25% rise in shopping-related prompts.

Operations

Tariffs: The Next Chapter

Companies need to rebuild their strategies for a world in which the free movement of goods, capital, IP, and people cannot be taken for granted.

Mergers and Acquisitions

M&A Midyear Report 2025: Separating the Signal from the Noise

What lessons from recent shocks apply to today’s challenging M&A environment?

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Medtech M&A Strategy: More Than Big Bets

Reaching new heights takes more than size. It’s about making smarter moves.

Technology

AI Tops Priority List for B2B Software Sales Teams

Tech imperatives compete with traditional priorities such as engaging new customers and improving salesforce productivity.

Next℠ Innovation Strategy

Global Venture Capital Outlook: The Latest Trends

Despite a headline dip, global venture capital stayed resilient due to US momentum and AI bets.

Insurance

Investors Are Losing Confidence in Most Insurers’ Growth Plans

From opaque life products to unsustainable P&C pricing, insurers must tackle structural issues to win back credibility.

Private Equity

Alone on the Ice: A Conversation with Arctos’s Ian Charles

In part two of our conversation with Ian Charles, we reflect on a career of consummate innovation in the secondaries market.

Vector℠

How Soon Will Agentic AI Redefine Enterprise Resource Planning?

Bain’s latest survey reveals a divide: tech leaders find ERP enables AI adoption, while laggards say it hinders it.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

AI ROI in Pharma: The Power of Strategy

Leading companies are already seeing material returns and efficiency gains from commercial initiatives.

Pharmaceuticals

How to Turn AI Hype into Hard Results in Pharma

AI is starting to deliver real ROI—but only for a few.

Strategy

What Audible and a Studebaker Have in Common

The surprising power of leading with kindness and joy, and putting your people first.

AI, Insights, and Solutions

Four Moves That Separate AI Leaders from Laggards

Most companies feel stuck in generative AI experimentation. Real change comes from business redesign, not tool deployment.

Travel & Leisure

Air Travel Forecast to 2040: Geopolitics and the Carbon Challenge

Three charts illustrate how the aviation demand outlook remains stable, with uncertainties around tariffs and trade counterbalanced by evolving sustainability assumptions.

Private Equity

Sustainability Value Creation

A framework for driving financial value through sustainability in private markets.

Vector℠

How to Hire a CIO

Beyond IT delivery, the role now enables strategy as a change agent for the business.

Private Equity

In a League of His Own: A Conversation with Arctos’s Ian Charles

Ian Charles, managing partner of Arctos Sports Partners, takes us inside the world of sports investing.

Why the Systems That Helped You Grow Might Now Be Holding You Back

Professional management systems are built for delivery and treat development as a distraction. But in turbulence, it’s essential to build new solutions and businesses.