Monthly Highlights, January 2026

As AI becomes more and more central to business strategy, the tools alone are not enough. True competitive advantage comes from “domain owners”—business leaders who can bridge technology and strategy to turn AI’s potential into real impact. In our featured article, Dana Maor, Eric Lamarre, and Kate Smaje explore how organizations can build this critical “second muscle” to build a deep bench of AI-savvy leaders and create measurable value from AI. Other highlights include the following topics:

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THIS MONTH’s HIGHLIGHTS

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Which aviation subsectors are flying high, and which face turbulence?

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Seizing the moment: Latin America’s productivity opportunity

From pilots to performance: How COOs can scale AI in manufacturing

How to capture the elusive performance edge in true transformations

Driving transformational behavior change at scale

The future is agentic: AI’s role in the end-to-end corporate credit process

Clear, credible, compelling: Mastering investor engagement in life sciences

Securities services firms and sanctions: Six steps to managing risk

Beyond the headlines: How trade agreements are reshaping business

Bridging the digital health gap through private sector engagement

Robert Lighthizer on the future of global trade

From reckoning to renewal: An interview with KKR’s Philipp Freise

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— Edited by Esther Chung, editor, Atlanta

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