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.
At 7:47 on a weekday morning, the most combative programme in British broadcasting shifts pace. The interruptions stop, and the follow-up questions cease. For two minutes and forty-five seconds, a single voice, reflects on the news of the day. Thought for the Day has been doing this since 1970. Most listeners have a view on it. Few are indifferent.
Manchester is not just a city with so much to answer for. It is exactly the right place to train the next generation of leaders in sport and entertainment. Manchester Metropolitan University Business School has launched an MBA in Sports and Entertainment, And if you want to understand why this matters you need to understand the city it's coming from.
When Sabastian Sawe crossed the finish line at the 2026 TCS London Marathon in less than two hours he was wearing less than four ounces of foam, carbon fibre, and three years of materials science. The Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 is more than a shoe, and now Nike is on the back foot.
Population collapse is a far greater risk to civilisation than climate change, according to Elon Musk. Buried in the hyperbole is a question that some of the world's most rigorous demographic researchers have been asking for decades, and one that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. What happens when a society can no longer replace itself?
Dreaming spires and ivy-clad walls say little about the quality of academic research being produced across an entire national system The measuresHE Country 100 ranking 2026 measure which countries have built the deepest, most rigorous, most open and most consistently excellent research ecosystems, from top to bottom. The results may surprise you.
Joy is not a word that appears very often on business school websites. Transformation, yes. Leadership, constantly. Impact, inevitably. But joy? A new study pushes back against that instinct, describing a 'pedagogy of joy' which might be what transformation feels like from the inside.
Lynda Gratton has spent three decades at London Business School asking, if the rules of a working life have changed this dramatically, why are we still playing by the old ones? This September, she publishes Living the 100-Year Life, a book about how to build a career that lasts and a life you love.
In 1995, Netscape staged one of the most electrifying IPOs in Wall Street history. Within four years, it was absorbed by AOL for a fraction of its peak valuation. Now OpenAI is valued at somewhere north of $300 billion. The consensus, once again, is that we are in the presence of an inevitable winner. History suggests a little more scepticism is warranted.
The new CEO of Apple, John Ternus is 50 years old. His predecessor, Tim Cook was also 50 when he stepped up to run the company. Is there an ideal age to move into the corner office?
