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REDEFINING LEADERSHIP IN THE AGE OF AI: What skills will future leaders need? • Artificial intelligence is transcending its original role as a tool designed to support humans and is increasingly performing leadership functions. What skills and competencies, then, will be demanded of human leaders in this brave new world?

LEADING WITH PURPOSE: UNITING INNER CONVICTION AND SOCIETAL DEMANDS • It's one thing to talk about corporate purpose, quite another to make it happen in a way that has real-world meaning for those at all levels of the organisation. In this article, the authors offer a framework designed to assist leaders in doing just that.

DIGITAL CULTURE: TRANSFORMING THE WAY LEADERS NEED TO DESIGN CORPORATE CULTURE FOR AI • Mostafa Sayyadi and Michael Provitera argue that executives now have two options to select from with regard to AI technology: either use it or lose it. And if you go for the former, you'd best take into account three concerns: social skills, cultivating intelligence, and responsibility towards society.

Beyond SaasPocalypse: HOW AGENTIC AI IS REINVENTING SOFTWARE ECONOMICS • Historically, enterprise software was priced on a per-seat basis. Today, in the era of generative and, especially, agentic AI, the (ever-decreasing) number of humans involved becomes less relevant. Now, the more relevant metric is the amount of work the software performs. Attention SaaS providers – the time for reinvention is nigh.

EMPOWERING PEOPLE WITH AI: REVOLUTIONIZING THE MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE • Among the disciplines currently under invasion by AI, human resources is one with enormous potential for benefit, at the same time being at significant risk of negative impact in terms of both ethics and justice. Here, we examine approaches to encouraging the scale to tip towards a favorable outcome.

WHY AI CAN'T SAY “I DON'T KNOW”: UNDERSTANDING THE ILLUSION OF OMNI-KNOWLEDGE IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS • Skillful orators know that, to convince their audience, it can pay to deliver their message with a tone of overweening confidence. Although many might apply a filter of healthy skepticism to content delivered in such a way, what about information delivered with apparently equal confidence by an AI system?

INSIDE MBA ADMISSIONS: WHAT APPLICANTS GET WRONG AND WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK FOR • Choosing an MBA has never been more complex or more consequential. Marketing promises abound, yet the real signals of a strong program often surface only once students arrive. Kate Klepper and David De Cremer of Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business pull back the curtain on how MBA programs assess candidates.

BELT UP AND BELT OUT: CORPORATE BENEFITS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY • At your last departmental meeting, did you join in, or did you zone out? Did you buckle down, or clam up? Well, don't feel too bad if your participation wasn't as wholehearted as it might have been. It could just be that you're a victim of poor psychological safety.

STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MICROAGGRESSIONS • Most would agree that saying something deliberately calculated to hurt another individual is, at best, small-minded. Nevertheless, even the saintliest of us have our own complex internal webs of assumptions...