To justify the investment, AI must do more than boost productivity; it will need to unlock new sources of growth and value.

As AI infrastructure investment accelerates, the world must confront the next challenge: whether the economic value created ...

In 2009 Michelle Zatlyn co-founded Cloudflare, a tech startup that powers 45% of all Fortune 500 companies through solving problems that were keeping their leaders up at night. The surprising thing is ...

China’s manufacturing scale, speed, and ecosystem density are changing how industries innovate, commercialize, and scale.

AI adoption has surged, but value realization has not. Value comes from rebuilding systems and teams around the customer, not the technology.

The financial services firm USAA prizes its relationships with customers and consistently earns the highest customer loyalty scores in the industry for both US banking and insurance businesses. The high ...

Most companies are stuck in gen AI experimentation, not transformation; real impact requires business redesign, not just tech deployment. The emerging leaders focus on fewer, high-value domains and ...

A widening experience gap is emerging in which a small group using AI extensively is pulling far ahead of the rest who are still experimenting superficially. Organizational friction is now the primary ...

The big US shopping weekend still holds serious sway: Around 9% of Bain-defined retail holiday sales will land between Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year—the highest seasonal share we’ve seen ...

What Is Zero-Based Budgeting? Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is a budgeting method that takes a “blank sheet of paper” approach to resource planning. The zero-based budget process differs from traditional ...

Beyond the Core is a classic that will be praised and read by business leaders who are serious about growing their companies. It picks up where Profit from the Core exits with both real and useful ...