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.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Elon Musk and Melania Trump all benefitted from an H-1B visa to pursue their careers in the U.S. So what do they make of the proclamation signed by President Donald Trump on Friday that will ask companies to pay a $100,000 annual fee for H-1B worker visas?
Steven Bartlett has become a social media supernova. The Diary of a CEO is one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world, and his posts to 3 million followers on Linkedin regularly generate tens of thousands of responses. BlueSky Thinking has put together some of Bartlett’s most insightful and applicable ideas for anyone graduating, starting a business, switching careers, or just trying to live well.
Results of the big four university rankings - THE QS, US News and ARWU - can vary wildly. That makes the BlueSky Ranking of University Rankings so powerful. By aggregating the results of all four league tables, it delivers a composite picture of who is truly on top in global academia. The 2025/26 results are telling when compared to three years ago.
Which are the top 100 universities in the world in 2025/26? The BlueSky Ranking of University Rankings 2025/26 aggregates the performance of schools across the four major global rankings published each year by THE, QS, US News and ARWU Shanghai. Each ranking uses a different methodology and measures different things. Doing particularly well in one ranking and less well in another is reflected in the overall average score.
In an era defined by technological innovation, AI breakthroughs, and shifting institutional landscapes, Rachel Botsman offers a compelling map for navigating trust in the digital age.
On Linkedin, Sahil Bloom has managed to break through the noise, offering fresh, practical insights grounded in both personal experience and a keen understanding of how opportunity compounds over time.
If you asked Stanford MBA student, Abhinav Kejriwal what he learned this past year, I wouldn’t point to a single class. Not because the classes aren’t useful (they are) but because they weren’t the main thing.
When MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business - long seen as the spiritual home of startup swagger and big ideas to change the world - openly declare, “We’re not learning anything,” it’s time to listen.
Imagine if the 2026 FT Global MBA Ranking was, for the first time in its multi-decade history, entirely American-free.
