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  Level Up Your Career

  Is Using AI Cheating?

  I’m not the only one wondering. In a survey conducted in March 2026, Lean In found that 29% of women worried they’d be perceived as cheating when they used AI, compared with 22% of men. Not sure about you, but for me, March 2026 seems a lifetime ago in AI years. I don’t know what that […]

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  Forté Signals

  If It Can Happen to Grace Hopper…

  On October 13, two weeks before it was set to take place, AnitaB.org announced that the 2026 Grace Hopper Celebration was canceled. My immediate reaction: What the heck is happening in our world? And I’m guessing I wasn’t the only one.  Grace Hopper isn’t a small conference that couldn’t find its audience. It’s well-known as one of […]

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  B-School Spotlights

  From Problem-Hunting to Capital: Why I Chose an MBA at Michigan Ross

  This blog is sponsored by University of Michigan (Ross School of Business) Three years before I applied to business school, I was at a whiteboard at PwC, running an innovation workshop for a group of tax strategy partners. Their practice was growing fast and the work behind it was manual and impossible to scale. My […]

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  Forté Signals

  When Are You Supposed to Be Bad at Something?

  During a recent Forté Partner Advisory Council conversation about early career talent, someone said something that has been living rent-free in my head for the last week. When talking about the pressures facing today’s college graduates in the job market, someone said, it can really feel as though failure isn’t an option. It made me […]

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  Leadership

  How to be great at making decisions

  We make thousands of decisions every day. Just think about how many food-related decisions you make each day, from what to eat to how to get it and “do you want to add guac?” No wonder figuring out what’s for dinner is one of the most exhausting parts of adult life. At work, the stakes […]

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  Leadership

  The Decisions That Don’t Look Like Decisions

  Some decisions announce themselves:  You get two job offers to choose between. You’re deciding whether to apply to graduate school. Your manager offers you a promotion that would require a move. These decisions are hard to miss. There’s a deadline. There are pros and cons. You know you’re making a decision. And because you recognize […]

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