Alan Murray

New York

President, Dow Jones Leadership Institute at Dow Jones and Company

President and CEO, FORTUNE

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A new study shows former CFOs generally underperform as CEOs

Feb 3, 2025 | ca.finance.yahoo.com | David Meyer |Alan Murray

Yesterday’s CEO Daily focused on Carol Tomé—a former CFO (Home Depot) who has already doubled her company’s market value as a new CEO (UPS). But a new study suggests Tomé may be the exception. Spencer Stuart looked at the performance of 1,300 CEOs since the turn of the millennium and found that ex-CFOs generally underperform.
A national strategy for 5G?

Feb 3, 2025 | ca.finance.yahoo.com | David Meyer |Alan Murray

This is the web version of CEO Daily. To get it delivered to your inbox, sign up here. Cristiano Amon becomes the CEO of Qualcomm on June 30, and in that role will be a key global leader in the roll out of 5G technology over the next decade. I spoke with him recently about the opportunity and the challenges ahead.
A rare opportunity to redesign work

Feb 3, 2025 | yahoo.com | David Meyer |Alan Murray

This is the web version of CEO Daily. To get it delivered to your inbox, sign up here. Good morning. I spent most of the day yesterday discussing the future of work—first, at an internal meeting with Fortune employees, then at our four-hour Reimagine Work Summit (full coverage for subscribers here), held in partnership with the Future Forum by Slack. The topic is a hot one for every employer of knowledge workers these days.
A deluge of feedback in a turbulent week

Feb 3, 2025 | yahoo.com | David Meyer |Alan Murray

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, left, wears a protective mask while being ceremoniously sworn-in by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, bottom left, with Elaine Chao, U.S. secretary of transportation, right, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 3, 2021. This is the web version of CEO Daily. To get it delivered to your inbox, sign up here. Good morning. It’s Friday, so some feedback, in which I’ve been deluged this turbulent week.
A coup attempt and an undivided government

Feb 3, 2025 | yahoo.com | David Meyer |Alan Murray

This is the web version of CEO Daily. To get it delivered to your inbox, sign up here. Good morning. A coup attempt, incited by a defeated president. That’s a plot line for a Tom Clancy novel, not something that would happen in the citadel of democracy. But yesterday, it did. It was the most significant attack on the U.S. Capitol since the British invaded in 1814.
Crypto out, tech gone quiet: What we learned from this year’s Super Bowl ads

Feb 3, 2025 | yahoo.com | David Meyer |Alan Murray

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysThose of you who watched the Super Bowl last night know it was a great game, with a kind of odd halftime show. But I watch the Super Bowl for the ads. As a media executive, it’s useful to see who’s spending $7 million for 30 seconds of airtime.
Republicans may have overestimated how much voters care about ‘woke CEOs’

Feb 3, 2025 | yahoo.com | Nicholas Gordon |Alan Murray

Good morning. Is attacking “woke CEOs” a winning political tactic? Two Republican contenders for the U.S. presidency—Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy—clearly think so. But early evidence suggests they may be miscalculating. Both candidates have toned done their anti-corporate rhetoric of late. And a recent New York Times poll found Republicans favored a “law and order candidate” over a “candidate who focuses on ‘woke’ ideology” by margins of two to one.
CEOs are letting go of their recession fears

Feb 3, 2025 | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Nicholas Gordon |Alan Murray

After a year of waiting for the Godot recession, CEOs seem to be giving up. In our latest poll of 143 CEOs conducted in collaboration with Deloitte (which sponsors this newsletter), only 38% said they had a “pessimistic” or “very pessimistic” outlook for the global economy for the next 12 months, down substantially from the 76% answering the same question last October. But inflation fears remain strong.
Utah CEO says distance from Silicon Valley has made the state ‘a really strong community of entrepreneurs’

Feb 3, 2025 | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Michal Lev-Ram |Nicholas Gordon |Alan Murray

I was traveling in Asia last week, and as a result had to miss one of the year’s big events: Fortune Brainstorm Tech, held for the first time in Park City, Utah.
Amid a backlash against ‘woke’ companies, Fortune’s Change the World list is more important than ever

Feb 3, 2025 | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Nicholas Gordon |Alan Murray

It has been eight years since I joined Fortune, and there are few things I’m prouder of in that time than the creation of the Change the World list, which former editor Cliff Leaf and I conspired on back in 2015. At the time, Fortune had lots of lists. We ranked companies by revenue, by market value, by speed of growth, by employee satisfaction, by public image, and much more. But we had never recognized the ones that made the greatest contributions to society.