HR succession planning is broken and your company’s next CHRO will probably come from outside

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/hr-succession-planning-broken-chro-hired-outside/

iPhone manufacturer Foxconn confirms it would seek to buy Renault’s stake in Nissan if up for grabs

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/nissan-honda-renault-foxconn-taiwan-contract-manufacturer-renault/

Heineken’s blockbuster results driven by premium beer and 0.0 drinks as European stocks reach record high

https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/12/heineken-premium-beer-0-0-drinks-stocks-record-high/

Small business owners warn Trump’s tariffs will cut deep: ‘We are losing a lot of money’

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/small-business-owners-warn-trump-tariffs-will-cut-deep-losing-money/

JPMorgan’s CFO says succession planning for CEO Jamie Dimon is ‘strong as ever’

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/jpmorgan-cfo-succession-planning-ceo-jamie-dimon-strong-as-ever/

Canada appoints former Mountie as fentanyl czar as part of deal with Trump to avoid 25% tariffs

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/canada-appoints-former-mountie-fentanyl-czar-deal-trump-avoid-25-tariffs/

Google Calendar is no longer showing events like Pride and Black History Month by default

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/google-calendar-no-longer-showing-pride-black-history-month-default/

Exclusive: Fal, generative media platform for developers, raises $49 million Series B

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/exclusive-fal-generative-media-platform-for-developers-raises-49-million-series-b/

Top U.S. Amazon sellers are furious about the ‘avalanche’ of Chinese competitors—and they crave a Trump intervention

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/amazon-sellers-us-china-mark-cuban-trump-de-minimis/

Sam Altman says there has been a ‘vibe shift’ in Silicon Valley’s relationship with Washington under Donald Trump

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/sam-altman-donald-trump-vibe-shift/

Baidu CEO defends heavy AI investments as competition heats up and Apple reportedly looks elsewhere

https://fortune.com/asia/2025/02/12/baidu-ceo-robin-li-apple-alibaba-deepseek-ernie/

Musk appears alongside Trump in the White House to admit mistakes will happen in DOGE’s major government reform: ‘Nobody is going to bat 1,000’

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/trump-musk-doge-mistakes-trust-transparency-gaza/

ASML boss says young people are always asking him how to become CEO. He calls it an ‘absurd’ question

https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/12/asml-boss-young-people-always-asking-how-become-ceo-absurd-question/

e.l.f. Beauty CEO on how to reach Gen-Z women

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/e-l-f-beauty-ceo-on-how-to-reach-gen-z-women/

With war on their doorstep, European defense tech startups are gunning for a slice of growing military budgets

https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/12/war-european-defense-tech-startups-military-budgets-ukraine-robots/

PBS shutters its DEI office to comply with Trump order as GOP senator renews calls to defund public broadcasting

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/pbs-shutters-dei-office-trump-order-gop-senator-defund-public-broadcasting/

Elon Musk and Bill Ackman are pulling out of Delaware. Now the state is scrambling to protect its $2 billion legal economy

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/delaware-law-musk-ackman-leaving-nevada/

Family of beavers save Czech government $1.2 million by finishing a 7-year dam project in just a few weeks

https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/12/czech-beaver-family-save-government-1-2-million-dam-project-prague-flooding-climate-change/

Coca-Cola earnings pop but CEO James Quincey says Trump’s new aluminum tariffs could spark plastic surge in 2025

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/coca-cola-earnings-q4-james-quincey-trump-aluminum-tariff-plastic/

Appeals court hands Trump administration another loss, ruling it can’t reinstate freeze on billions in federal grants

https://fortune.com/2025/02/12/appeals-court-trump-administration-loss-no-reinstate-freeze-federal-grants/