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.
If you ask a group of MBA, MiM or exec ed candidates what matters most to them when choosing a business school, the answers come quickly: post-graduation salary, career progression, international mobility, perhaps achieving the specific goals they’ve set for themselves. But how often does a prospective student, or even an alumnus say, “I’m choosing this school because of its research output”? Almost never.
Elon Musk has become the first person to reach $500 billion net worth. This is physics-defying money. So how do you spend it? It’s no easy task, because if he lives until his mid 80s he has to spend nearly $2 million every hour. Here are seven ways he could spend his fortune.
Chris Donnelly is one of the voices cutting through the noise on Linkedin. He built and sold hugely successful business, has amassed millions of followers across platforms, and now teaches others how to scale their businesses through personal branding and AI-powered systems.
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.
