Before stepping down as CEO in January, Doug McMillon led Walmart, the world’s biggest company in revenue terms, for nearly 12 years. He delivered substantial growth in sales and earnings and ...

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Even as the dot.com upstarts disrupted traditional companies in the late 1990s, new entrants powered by generative AI are now ...