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Jevon Thoresen, Board of Directors Jevon Thoresen Jevon Thoresen is a mission-driven executive leader dedicated to advancing economic equity, inclusive employment, and pathways to opportunity. He serves as a Director at the Corporate Coalition of Chicago, where he leads the Workplace Flex Fund and Hire Chicago initiatives and guides the Coalition’s work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and workforce equity – ensuring that workers most at risk of being left behind benefit from emerging technologies. Jevon brings more than two decades of experience transforming talent practices and expanding access to opportunity. During his nine years at LinkedIn, he led global teams responsible for helping employers build more equitable hiring, learning, and development systems. As a leader on LinkedIn’s Equity Product team, he helped shape AI-enabled tools designed to reduce bias and strengthen fair, skills-based pathways for job seekers. A champion for representation and belonging, Jevon co-led LinkedIn’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Council, driving initiatives that helped to triple Black leadership representation, increased Latino leadership representation, and improved overall employee belonging scores. He also oversaw LinkedIn’s partnership with Urban Alliance in Chicago, supporting high school students from under-resourced communities through mentorship, skills development, and college and career readiness programming. Earlier

The University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees has elected five new members: Wei Cai, AM’95, MBA’95; David Foley; Stephanie Rada Zocco, AB’88; Imran Siddiqui, AB’96, AM’96; and Konstantin Sokolov, MBA’05. They began their five-year terms in May 2026. “We are pleased to welcome Wei, David, Stephanie, Imran and Konstantin to the Board,” said David M. Rubenstein, JD’73, chair of the Board of Trustees. “Their distinguished leadership and commitment will help guide the University through this pivotal moment as it embarks on the Chicago Minds campaign.” “This is a remarkable group of individuals,” said President Paul Alivisatos. “I am grateful for their dedication to the University and look forward to all that we, along with their colleagues on the Board, will accomplish together.” Wei Cai recently retired as a partner and global vice chairman of investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, where he also served as co-head of China and co-head of China investment banking. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Cai served as vice chairman of Asia Investment Banking and co-head of China at UBS, and as managing director and head of Asia General Industrials at Morgan Stanley. He was previously a managing director at FountainVest Partners, a China-based private equity fund. Cai

Recruitment Is 'time travel' being used to try to fool you? Check a candidate's LinkedIn profile today, and it's tempting to assume a job they held five years ago reads the same way it did back then. New research says that's often not true, and what's changing tells you a lot about where the job market is headed. A working paper out of Stanford University and workforce data firm Revelio Labs, released through the National Bureau of Economic Research this July, finds that nearly one in five established U.S. LinkedIn users, 19.7%, have gone back and edited the title or description of a job they'd already left. Researchers Nicholas Bloom, Gideon Moore, Lisa K. Simon and Caelan Wilkie-Rogers call it "time travel": rewriting the past to fit the present. This isn't someone fixing a typo the week after starting a new job. The median edit happens more than four years after a person has left the role, long after the actual work has stopped changing. What's different isn't the job. It's how people choose to talk about it, after the fact. What people are adding, and what they're dropping The researchers tracked how language tied to three in-demand skill areas moved through

Nashville, TN, Aug. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- C-Suite Stack, a digital communications firm that builds thought leadership for executives, today announced findings from its analysis of the 150 honorees named to LinkedIn's May 2026 and August 2026 US Top Voices cohorts. The central finding is a visibility gap measured against the market itself: the sectors that make up roughly a third of the S&P 500's value — industrials, energy, utilities, consumer staples and discretionary, materials, and real estate — produced 10 of the 150 honorees. Across LinkedIn's published topic tags for the full list, "Energy and utilities" appears once. Each dot is one of the 150 honorees in LinkedIn's 2026 US Top Voices cohorts. The ten in gold come from physical economy sectors, which hold roughly a third of the S&P 500's value but produced just 7 percent of honorees. (Graphic: C-Suite Stack) Key Findings Sectors representing roughly a third of the S&P 500's market value produced 10 of 150 honorees (6.7 percent). These include industrials (5 honorees), consumer and retail (4), and energy and utilities (1), with none identified from materials, real estate, logistics, hospitality, or quick-service restaurants. Media, marketing, and careers commentary account for roughly 35 percent

Mobile Introduced on the latest Galaxy Z series, One UI 9 brings an upgraded Smart Switch experience that makes it easier to get started, connect wirelessly, and bring more data from iOS Device to Galaxy 8/24/2026 Getting a new phone should be exciting, but moving data from an existing device can sometimes feel like a hassle. For users switching from iOS to Galaxy, being able to bring existing data and settings across easily is an important part of the experience. Smart Switch is Samsung’s data transfer app that allows users to move contacts, photos, videos, messages, apps, settings, and more from an Android or iOS device to a new Galaxy device. 1 With One UI 9 on the new eighth-generation Galaxy Z series, Smart Switch makes switching devices easier and more seamless than before. Quick Share has also been enhanced, making it easier to share files with friends, family and colleagues using different platforms. 2 Start Switching With Just a QR Code With One UI 9, users no longer need to install the Smart Switch app separately on their iOS device. 3 By simply scanning the QR code displayed on their new Galaxy, they can start transferring data through Smart Switch.

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It's become an easy line to repeat, young audiences don't show up anymore. Ashish Saksena of BookmyShow pushes back hard, and points the finger at marketing built for the wrong audience. Watch Storyboard18 on CNBCTV18live Saturday | 8:30am, Sunday | 11:30am & 2:00pm Sakshi Dhingra | Ashish Saksena Like Comment Transcript There is one audience that three of you are dealing with, which is your Gen. Z's and your content creators make movie are Chini Lagi. Achave criticized it with a screenshot saying key, OK, do not watch. Like you said, good movie, worth one watch. And then comes Genz who are very, very vocal about their likes and dislikes. So how is it that you're changing your narrative, your communication strategy for a business and especially targeting Gen. Z's at this point in time? A lot of work is done by the Hollywood. Sorry, I've just taken the lead. Come on, take it, please. This because yeah, because I think a lot of lot of credit also goes to how the Hollywood is marketing these films. You know, there is a very classic question. You know, all of us on this panel have of a certain age, you know, we've we've

LinkedIn, as a professional network, has long reflected employment market trends, with capital paths relying on user profile completeness and keyword matching. Recent editing behaviors show a rapid switch in policy and technical priorities. Resources are shifting from maintaining DEI-related descriptions to increasing AI skill labels, motivated by changes in hiring demands and policy environment adjustments, as users actively optimize searchable signals. This is analogous to the earlier transition in resumes from 'diversity advocacy' to 'digital transformation' keywords; current professional profiles are in a phase of re-weighting from social issues to technical capabilities, with the industry overall shifting from compliance statement competition to hard skill visibility competition. Essentially, this represents a transfer of pricing power, with keywords moving from politically correct to market-scarce skills, driven by recruitment algorithms and employer preferences that directly reward verifiable technical labels, compelling users to retroactively modify historical profiles. ABAB News · Cognitive Law Profile keywords follow hiring trends AI labels are replacing policy labels Retroactive editing reveals true demand changes.

Photo Credit: Getty Images LinkedIn may be full of complaints about AI-generated "thought leadership," but one experiment suggests the platform may still be rewarding exactly that kind of content. A deliberately bad tool called Cringebot 3000 appears to show just how easily synthetic, engagement-driven posts can spread. Here's what to know According to a test highlighted by Business Insider, a journalist used Cringebot 3000 — a generator for over-the-top, cliché-heavy LinkedIn posts — and found that the fake update performed better than the reporter's other posts. Behind the site is Peter Epstein, who owns a Los Angeles PR firm with clients in the advertising business. Epstein said, "The goal is to make it a little less serious and try to take what's become its own sort of form, like poetry — LinkedIn 'thought leadership' is its own form — and try to take that form and make it a little more fun and a little more silly." For the test, the reporter typed in "AI in journalism" and got back a melodramatic workplace story that ended with the line, "The AI called me moderate. The sisterhood said: absolutely not." Even with a disclosure attached, the post still drew strong engagement.

Lisa Marie (Williams) Baggs born January 12th, 1970 , passed peacefully away at age 56, on August 18th, 2026, at the Health Science Centre in St. John’s surrounded by her loved ones. Predeceased by her mother Eileen and father David Williams Leaving to mourn her partner Bobby Hussey, her only child Eden, brothers Johnny (Sharon), David, Barry (Annette), and her special niece Robyn, who Lisa adored. As well as many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Also leaving to mourn is Bobby’s extended family, special thanks to Bobby’s sister Marie LeGrow for the extra pampering she gave Lisa over the last 5 months. Special thanks to all the staff at the Health Science Centre, 4 South A for all the care and compassion you have shown Lisa the past 5 months, it does not go unnoticed. Extra special thanks to Sarah and Nancy for going above and beyond for Lisa, she appreciated you both so much. As per Lisa’s request there will be no visitation or funeral service.