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.
Bulgaria has won Eurovision for the first time. Dara walked off the stage in Vienna with a song called Bangaranga and the biggest victory margin in the contest's 70-year history. Bulgaria is celebrating, and the Sofia Stock Exchange will likely join in when it opens on Monday morning. But the impact of the world’s biggest singing contest extends much further.
An estimated $570 billion in classic cars will pass to heirs as part of the $90 trillion Great Wealth Transfer. Behavioural economics from Chicago Booth and 40 years of family business research from IMD Lausanne explain why so few will be sold, and what families can do about it.
There are two FA Cups. The early rounds still produce giant-killings. The late rounds have become a closed shop of billionaire clubs. Saturday's Chelsea-Man City final, between two sides who have spent nearly €8bn on transfers between them, shows what happens when football's oldest competition splits in two.
From a six-year-old drawing God to Randy Pausch doing push-ups on a stage at Carnegie Mellon, the lectures that stay with us for decades share the same conditions. Something is at stake, the room is paying attention, and the person at the front means it. Here's what makes an unforgettable lecture.
Young Americans are gloomier about the job market than their peers in 86 other countries. That market is shifting. Entry-level AI job postings have nearly doubled in a year. MBA and MiM salaries from top-tier programmes hit a record in 2025. The pessimism is justified by what's behind these graduates. The graduates who understand what's being asked for next are already pulling ahead.
The most common first name among Fortune 500 CEOs is Robert. There are 21 of them. In fact, six male first names cover around 20% of the entire list - almost double the number of those companies led by women. America has tens of thousands of first names to choose from. Why Robert, and what comes next?
"Pressure is a privilege," Tom Hiddleston recently explained. "The chemical that you produce when you're nervous is the same that you produce when you are excited. I choose to say that I am excited." The clip went viral. In a moment that Ted Lasso would be proud of, the actor had just paraphrased one of the better-evidenced findings in performance psychology.
In the space of a week, two decisions have redrawn the map of business research. The Financial Times had carefully replaced three journals in its FT50 list of academic journals. It had now lost a fourth without choosing to. MIT Sloan Management Review -sixty years old and an FT50 mainstay will cease publication. The two stories are not a coincidence.
AI will give you a confident answer based on bad data. It won't tell you the data is bad because it has no way to know. At IIM Indore's CERE 2026 conference, the school's director Himanshu Rai put it plainly, “AI has everything to do with information, but nothing to do with truth.”
