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CIO Journal is marking its 10th anniversary by asking corporate leaders to share their views on the evolving role of business and technology. Thomas Kurian, chief executive of Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud, says the role of the chief information officer has changed materially as technology has grown more important to business. Increasingly, CEOs view technology as a differentiator and look to the CIO for expertise, he said. Mr…. Source link

Chief co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan Photos courtesy of Chief As companies see a record number of women leaving their jobs in “the Great Resignation,” Google parent Alphabet is putting money behind an initiative that could help them stay. Launched in 2019, Chief is a membership-based company for female executives that’s designed to provide meetups with curated groups of peers, mentorship and fireside chats with people like former first lady Michelle Obama. The start-up has… Source link

Russian President Vladimir Putin.Pool Sputnik, AP Andrei Illarionov, Putin’s former chief economic adviser, was interviewed by the BBC. He said Putin would likely halt the Ukraine war if the West stopped buying Russian oil and gas. Many Western nations remain heavily reliant on Russian energy exports. Vladimir Putin’s former chief economic adviser has suggested that Russia would halt military operations in Ukraine “within a month or two” if Western countries stopped buying Russian oil and gas. In… Source link

Beating the Monday blues will be especially trying for Google employees this week. Starting today, workers are required to come into company headquarters three times a week. But according to Laszlo Bock, former chief of Google human resources and current CEO of Humu, this hybrid model won’t be around much longer. Bock says that after three to five years of flexible work models and hybrid plans, the normal in-office schedule will prevail at Google—and beyond. He predicts this transition… Source link

The CEO of Alphabet Inc. and Google, Sundar Pichai says the IT companies are focused on providing reliable information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press March 29, 2022, 2:27 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article WARSAW, Poland — Information technology companies are focused on providing reliable information and stymying Russian propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine, the CEO of Google and Alphabet Inc. said Tuesday. Sundar… Source link

Alicin Reidy Williamson is leaving Endeavor after more than two years to join Yahoo, which spun off from Verizon last year, as the media and tech company’s chief diversity and culture officer. Reidy Williamson will lead Yahoo’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts globally, reporting directly to CEO Jim Lanzone. Based in New York, she will lead the team of DEI and “employee-experience practitioners”; oversee employee engagement and strategic partnerships; and promote… Source link

Stocks experienced a brutal correction in January before bouncing to end the month down roughly 5%. That may be just the start of the pain for passive “buy-and-hold” investors, according to Barry Bannister, the chief equity strategist at Stifel, a St. Louis–based investment bank. In fact, the strategist is predicting an entire decade of suffering ahead for markets as the Fed raises interest rates, with 0% returns for investors. “Buy and hold is the ideal strategy in the bull phases…but… Source link

Russia invaded Ukraine Thursday, shelling key strategic targets.Vadim Zamirovsky/AP Morgan Stanley Wealth Management CIO Lisa Shalett said the Russia-Ukraine conflict will keep markets in risk-off mode for weeks. She said a rapidly-changing situation often results in a flight out of risk assets, but this isn’t a good strategy in the longer run. Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday in the region’s largest military operation since World War 2. Financial markets have been roiled this week after… Source link

Consumer prices in December rose the most year-over-year since 1982, feeding into the Federal Reserve’s guidance that it may need to raise interest rates three times this year to combat inflation. But one economist says the last year has taught an important lesson: forecasters have to stay humble, and nimble. That means there’s no guarantee that three hikes will be necessary. “I think there’s some downside risk for the economy, and, therefore, three hikes are not necessarily in the… Source link

Ford recently released its 2022 Looking Further with Ford (F) report, marking the 10th year the legacy automaker has surveyed global consumers to identify trends among key demographics. According to Ford Chief Futurist Sheryl Connelly, climate and environmental issues remain at the top of consumers’ minds. “So it’s really ‘climate, climate, climate,’” Connelly told Yahoo Finance Live. “We have been doing this report for a number of years, and what we found is that in recent years… Source link