CEO Agenda

There is no shortage of lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the economic and health adjustments we are all scrambling to make, a deluge of new challenges that have yet to be considered still looms around the corner. As we navigate our way through these...

The coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic has significantly affected merger and acquisition (“M&A”) activity worldwide. Even in the first quarter of 2020 compared with 2019, M&A activity was down 25%. The market downturn and related financial crisis caused by COVID-19 have further decreased M&A activity. Many companies delayed or scrapped deals entirely...

As the rate of COVID19 infections begins to flatten, states are considering how they will lift restrictions in order to restart society and business. Some states including Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina are moving forward with opening retail businesses with social distancing restrictions. Others like California and New York say...

The effects of COVID-19's spread across the globe have been wide-ranging and indiscriminate. Companies are losing revenue and filing for bankruptcy. Millions of people have lost their jobs while millions of others report for duty on the front lines in hospitals, grocery stores, and other essential businesses. Workers who can operate from home...

It’s not news that in times of crisis, we think and act differently. When our lives and well-being are challenged—as they have been during the COVID-19 pandemic—we’re not concerned with petty rules or receiving credit for our actions. The cause becomes prepotent. Team welfare trumps self-interest. We are more willing...

Covid-19 is posing content teams a double-headed challenge. The first is how to make the best of the current circumstances and carry on operating even amid the obvious limitations of lockdown. The second is how to plan for the mid-term future, given the likelihood of significant changes to the working...

The coronavirus pandemic has taken all of us by surprise and we found ourselves scrambling for supplies with no stockpile of ventilator equipment and an inadequate PPE supply to fall back on. To make things more difficult, the clinical severity of coronavirus is changing daily. While it’s still too early...

Well before COVID-19 there were significant biases and challenges that disrupted work fairness for women. Women were, and remain, more likely to have their time stolen. And guarding it is not as easy as it sounds. The expectation, often tacit, that women’s time should be spent creating value for others...

To onlookers, business success may appear to be made from a secret ingredient however in reality, there is no hidden formula.  All successful businesses start somewhere, and every founder will have experienced trial and error when looking to expand, increase profits, and market to new audiences. It is these mistakes...

As co-founder and CEO of KaviAR Tech, an augmented reality startup headquartered in Paris, I have always been fascinated by the possibilities of this technology on business, society and life. I joined a training school for French Army technicians at the age of 16. I got married, had my first...