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An additional way we spotlight individual executives—and their important collaboration in the C-suite—is via our recently launched Forbes CxO Nexus video-interview series. Don’t miss just-published interviews with Ally’s CMO Andrea Brimmer and CHRO Kathie Patterson, and the Gannett duo of CMO Mayur Gupta and CPO Kris Barton, who discuss the importance of aligning incentives within organizations. You can watch all CxO Nexus interviews here.

Have a great week.

Comings & Goings

March is shaping up to be a banner month for women in tech. In the past two weeks, three women have been appointed to CIO roles. Kathryn Guarini will helm technology at IBM, Laura Miller will step into the information chief role at Macy’s and Clare Martorana will lead the office of electronic government at the Office of Management and Budget for the U.S. government.

When Oisin Hanrahan and Umang Dua sold their startup, Handybook, to Angi Homeservices in 2018, they didn’t think they’d be leading the company in just a few years. Now, Hanrahan is Angi’s CEO, and Dua its CRO. Here’s how they went from startup founders to the leaders of the publicly traded company that acquired them.

Leadership & Strategy

Burger King’s International Women’s Day tweet—”Women belong in the kitchen”—aimed for cheekiness (follow-up tweets went on to indict gender inequity in restaurant kitchens), but fell flat. In an interview with Forbes CMO Editor Marty Swant, CMO Fernando Machado opens up about why it all went wrong.

Just about every company stumbled in moving to remote work a year ago. What was once a chaotic challenge has now become something of a cottage industry. If you or your business are having difficulty working or managing from afar, this new wave of remote work HR startups can whip your organization into shape.

The Biden administration’s Department of Labor has halted a policy from the Trump administration that would’ve required businesses to pay significantly more to employ H-1B visa holders. The move would pose an existential threat to foreign workers and the businesses that employ them; for now, they can breathe easy.

By The Numbers

125,000

The number of servers still vulnerable to Microsoft Exchange attacks.

The disastrous cyber attacks that have plagued Microsoft email networks since the start of March could still affect tens of thousands of servers, and even more businesses.

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