So you’ve heard of KPI, ROI and EBITDA. But use the wrong acronym in front of Cisco’s president and your meeting could be killed—especially if it’s one that nobody outside the building understands. “I don’t like acronyms, especially Cisco-manufactured acronyms that happen at runtime,” Cisco’s president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel told Fortune at
This is Fortune 500 Power Moves, a column tracking executive shifts—from appointments and promotions to resignations and retirements—within the highest ranks of Fortune 500 companies. Below is a recap of the C-suite developments at America’s highest-revenue-generating companies announced between Sept. 12-18, 2026, organized by sector. Titles included in this roundup: CEOs (Chief Executive Officers), COOs
Over the past several days, some of the world’s top artificial intelligence labs have made a public call to slow down the rapid pace of development, ensuring more safety controls as cases continue to surface of AI agents acting nefariously. And yet, there is a spillover that’s affecting chief information officers. They’ve been hard at
Some of America’s biggest companies are receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in tariff refunds, or booking even larger financial benefits. However, many consumers are wondering if those refunds will find their way back into their wallets. After the Supreme Court ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not give the president authority
Chief Information Officer Stephen Franchetti has enthusiastically embraced a wide array of artificial intelligence tools to bolster workflow automation for the tech firm’s 4,100 employees. At tech firm Samsara, Franchetti has authorized Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the AI coding agent Cursor, while also developing an internal system that monitors all AI expenses
