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Balancing the Boardroom with Lead Independent Directors
Alessia Falsarone
This Advisor explores the growing importance of lead independent directors (LID) in strengthening board oversight, especially in firms with concentrated leadership or weak governance. The LID plays a key role in balancing power, fostering accountability, and enhancing investor trust — but only when backed by real authority and engagement.
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Embedding Purpose to Achieve Real SBT Results
Kelly Cooper, Neil Hawkins
This Advisor argues that many firms abandon sustainable business transformation (SBT) too soon, overlooking its proven financial, cultural, and societal benefits. Success depends on a Constancy of Purpose — an enduring, organization-wide commitment that embeds sustainability into strategy, avoids greenwashing, and positions companies to achieve lasting growth and resilience.
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Governing the Quantum Frontier
Guido Peterssen Nodarse, Jose Luis Hevia
This Advisor argues that to unlock the full potential of private quantum hubs (PQHs), organizations must implement centralized governance systems tailored to the unique demands of quantum ecosystems. These systems must coordinate diverse technologies, manage hybrid architectures, and ensure secure, scalable access for a broad spectrum of users. Without such purpose-built governance, PQHs risk inefficiency and fragmentation — undermining their role as key enablers of enterprise quantum innovation.
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Bridging the Board–Management Gap with AI
David Larcker, Amit Seru, Brian Tayan, Laurie Yoler
As this Advisor explores, AI is transforming corporate governance by narrowing the information gap between boards and management. With greater access to data and analysis, directors can exercise more informed oversight— but face higher expectations, new legal questions, and cybersecurity risks.
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7 Pillars of a Universal Carbon Accounting System
Enrique Castro-Leon, Katrina Pugh, Jose Zero
This Advisor introduces the seven essential practices of a cross-industry generally accepted carbon accounting principles system. It outlines how transparent, interoperable, and verifiable carbon accounting creates opportunities for market differentiation and presents a blueprint for a reliable, global carbon ledger that supports business accountability and climate action.
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Disciplining AI, Part I: Evaluation Through Industry Lenses — Opening Statement
Eystein Thanisch
In Part I of this two-part Amplify series on AI evaluation, we explore the impetus toward AI accountability that arises from tackling real problems in real-world settings. Understanding how AI can contribute, at what cost, and with what nth order effects in a given context requires rigorous socio-technical systems thinking.
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Explain Yourself: The Legal Requirements Governing Explainability
Rosie Nance, Marcus Evans, Lisa Fitzgerald, Lily Hands
As Marcus Evans, Rosie Nance, Lisa Fitzgerald, and Lily Hands explore, AI explainability is a legal requirement as well as a scientific challenge. Despite the EU and UK’s differing approaches in other aspects of AI regulation, both the EU and UK GDPR continue to uphold individuals’ right to an explanation of automated or semiautomated decisions that impact them significantly. The EU AI Act also provides a right to an explanation for individuals or organizations.
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Measuring AI’s Impact Across the Fashion Value Chain
Kitty Yeung
Kitty Yeung urges us to elevate our thinking and consider what we are trying to achieve — via AI or otherwise. She argues that the fashion industry has long failed to appreciate the imaginative journeys consumers are taking, journeys that weave together self, situations, social circles, and eclectic wearables. Destructive practices like fast fashion represent flawed attempts to address human complexity with incomplete information, cumbersome supply chains, and a narrow anthropology that undervalues consumers’ creative agency.
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A Simulation-First Approach to AI Development
Joseph Farrington
Joseph Farrington emphasizes the importance of evaluating AI systems against their end goals. In healthcare, where developing and deploying AI models is especially challenging, he argues for first modeling the business context and processes the AI will interact with — before moving ahead with development or deployment. This approach can be used to assess, in advance, whether a plausible AI model will provide the intended benefit. It can also be used to run alternative scenarios to identify what else might need to change for the AI to really work or what else might work better if the AI were in place.
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AI’s Impact on Expertise
Joseph Byrum
Joseph Byrum introduces a framework to help organizations plan rationally and prudently for AI adoption. One element is defining performance thresholds beyond which emerging technologies become economically viable. Another is assessing how AI and humans should interact across different business functions: some tasks can be commoditized and handled by AI, while others remain critical differentiators under human responsibility, with hybrid possibilities in between.
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AI in B2B Publishing: The Promise & the Peril
Daniel Flatt
Daniel Flatt contends that an evaluation framework that promotes accuracy and objectivity is a commercial necessity. He points to B2B publishing as a sector of particular note: an industry built on credibility and accountability that AI could undermine, even as it offers opportunities to accelerate time to output. In response, new tools for detecting inaccuracy and bias in AI-generated copy are emerging, alongside collaborations across the publishing workflow and the wider industry.
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On-Orbit Data Centers: Enabling Technologies & Emerging Capabilities
Curt Hall
This Advisor series explores the emergence of on-orbit data centers — space-based platforms that enable real-time, AI-powered data processing and analysis directly in orbit. Here in Part I, we examine the enabling technologies, key benefits, and transformative potential of these systems for autonomous space operations, Earth observation, defense, manufacturing, and beyond.
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Stop Wasting Board Expertise
Siah Hwee Ang
Most organizations underutilize their boards, treating directors primarily as oversight agents rather than strategic partners. This Advisor recommends a shift toward deeper, ongoing engagement between directors and management to unlock the full value of board expertise. By institutionalizing both hard and soft skills — through regular interaction, strategic involvement, and better succession planning — organizations can ensure board knowledge becomes a lasting asset, not a transient one.
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Operationalizing Nature Positive Actions
Dan Salas, Caroline Hernandez
As biodiversity loss intensifies, companies face mounting pressure to integrate nature positive actions into their sustainability strategies. This Advisor explores how businesses can operationalize these efforts by leveraging established tools and frameworks to assess nature-related risks and opportunities. It also highlights the importance of third-party verification to avoid greenwashing and ensure meaningful outcomes.
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Powering Real-World Innovation with Quantum Algorithms
Michal Baczyk
This Advisor explores the accelerating convergence of academic research and industry investment in quantum algorithms, marking a shift from theoretical promise to practical application. From simulating molecules in drug discovery to optimizing logistics and advancing financial modeling, quantum algorithms are beginning to deliver domain-specific value. As industries invest in identifying where quantum advantage matters most, the focus is turning to integrating these tools into real-world workflows and architectures.
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The Complexity Paradox: How CEO Overconfidence Shapes Strategy
Shuhui Wang, Hirindu Kawshala
This Advisor explores how CEO overconfidence influences firm complexity, drawing on analysis of over 14,000 earnings call transcripts. While confident leaders may aim to streamline operations, the findings show a 3.1% reduction in complexity among firms led by overconfident CEOs — raising concerns about oversimplification. Boards and investors should carefully evaluate whether reduced complexity reflects strategic clarity or signals deeper organizational blind spots.
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A Scalable Framework for Decarbonization & Biodiversity Gains
Margaret Waldock, Jonathan Wagar, David Jeffrey Ringer
This Advisor explores how campuses and peri-urban communities can become powerful agents of climate action by implementing decarbonization strategies within a broader framework developed by Duke Farms. By integrating emissions reductions with biodiversity and carbon-sequestration goals, it highlights scalable, place-based solutions that address the urgent need for local action in the face of global environmental threats.
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Battling Deepfakes with AI-Driven Cybersecurity
Curt Hall
This Advisor explores how cybersecurity vendors are harnessing AI to detect and counter increasingly sophisticated deepfakes. It examines emerging capabilities such as multimodal detection engines, real-time threat mitigation, forensic analysis, and behavioral biometrics — technologies designed to safeguard organizations against fraud, impersonation, and synthetic media manipulation.
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Leading with Responsibility: Navigating AI Risks in a Digital Future
San Murugesan
AI’s rapid adoption offers transformative potential but also introduces significant risks — some with potentially irreversible consequences. This Advisor highlights the importance of strategic leadership in managing these risks through integrated business, AI, and organizational strategies. It underscores the need for human oversight in critical systems, structured AI risk management frameworks, and a commitment to responsible development.
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The Sustainability Canvas: Integrating Strategy, Efficiency & Impact
Paul Godfrey, Vishal Gajjar
This Advisor introduces the Sustainability Canvas, a strategic framework designed to help CSOs and business leaders develop integrated, long-term sustainability programs. Anchored by four compass points — internal versus external focus and private markets versus the public square — the Canvas identifies key areas of sustainability action across compliance, efficiency, innovation, and community engagement. By linking activities across these quadrants, organizations can unlock synergies that drive economic, social, and strategic value.