Matt is chief editor of Bluesky-thinking.com, a website dedicated to the insights and research of business schools, universities and outstanding management thinkers.
He is an internationally recognised business and graduate school expert, consulting to the world's top business schools, and has written for many of the world's leading publications including Forbes, The Economist, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, BBC, Newsweek, CNBC, America Economia, Washington Post, The Independent, Boston Globe, Handelsblatt, South China Morning Post, San Francisco Chronicle and more.
Matt was Co-Founder of the QS World MBA Tour
Matt is co-author of Getting the M.B.A. Admissions Edge, a B-school admissions bestseller sponsored by Goldman Sachs and McKinsey. His new individual school guides will be available in the fall.
Can a simple exercise in gratitude at Thanksgiving teach us something about building stronger teams and healthier workplaces? The work of Wharton’s Adam M. Grant and former HBS professor Francesca Gino shows that expressions of gratitude aren’t just nice gestures. They can trigger a cascade of pro-social behaviour, improved collaboration, and better well-being.
The biggest career advantage in 2025 isn’t just intelligence or ambition. It’s awareness. These five lessons will make your early career faster, smoother, and far more meaningful.
Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK and author of Alchemy, argues that the world runs not on logic but on psychology, imagination, and delight. The BlueSky Thinking series, The Influencers captures irreverent marketing philosophy which celebrates irrational ideas, reframing, and experimentation over data-driven rigidity.
New research from London Business School and INSEAD reveals that women’s ideas are cited far less often in patents and papers - a silent bias distorting who gets credit, who gets funded, and which innovations shape our future.
We often talk about leadership and career change as if they’re tidy, linear stories - moments of clarity, followed by decisive action, rewarded by neat outcomes. Herminia Ibarra has spent her career dismantling that myth. For her, growth is rarely graceful. It’s awkward, improvised, and deeply human.
According to new research from Columbia Business School, our creeping sameness isn’t just anecdotal - it’s the inevitable side-effect of our growing reliance on artificial intelligence.
BlueSky Thinking sits down with Hamilton Mann, whose book Artificial Integrity was recently nominated for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award 2025, about why integrity is the missing benchmark in today’s AI race, what it means for business leaders, and how educators and regulators alike can reset the rules of the game.
The FT EMBA Ranking 2025 reads like a map of Asia’s growing power in management education. Nine of the top eleven programmes have a campus or partnership in Asia - most prominently China - signalling a geographic rebalancing of influence at the senior-executive level.
Grace Beverley is one of the UK’s most visible young entrepreneurs - a Forbes 30 Under 30 alum, author of the Sunday Times bestselling book Working Hard, Hardly Working, and host of the hit podcast of the same name, where she interviews leaders, creators, and thinkers on how to redefine success on your own terms.
