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.
Most LinkedIn "experts" have opinions. Howard Yu has data, factory visits, and 25 hours of research behind every post. With every company he studies, the LEGO® Chair of Management and Innovation at IMD asks who is building the capabilities that will matter in five years.
What, exactly, is a very good chance? Is it 60%? 75%? 90%? The answer is that nobody really agrees. And that shared misunderstanding, multiplied across millions of traders, analysts, diplomats and ordinary citizens, has consequences that range from the financially catastrophic to the culturally misleading.
In MBA classrooms, the language of numbers reigns supreme. The quants are in charge. But Oxford's Saïd Business School has appointed a Poet Laureate, the first such position in any business school, naming the distinguished South African poet and scholar Dr Athol Williams to the role. Because wisdom in business and leadership has a poetic side.
European business schools continue to set the global standard in The Financial Times Online MBA Ranking 2026. For the fourth consecutive year, IE Business School in Spain claims the top spot. It is followed again by Imperial Business School in second, and Warwick Business School in third.
When Anthropic refused to let the Pentagon use its Claude models without explicit protections the company was designated a "supply chain risk to national security." Hours later, Sam Altman announced OpenAI had signed the deal. What happened next is a lesson in the importance of purpose, and it reaches far beyond Silicon Valley.
Death Valley is carpeted in wildflowers. Seeds that had been lying dormant in the soil, some of them perhaps waiting years for exactly this moment, woke up. Given the right conditions, they simply did what they were always capable of doing. They bloomed.
If you were designing the career path of the world's first Chief AI Officer, you probably wouldn't start with a rugby field. Sol Rashidi did. And twenty-five years on, she'll tell you the two things have more in common than you'd think.
The Talent 100 Business & Economics 2026 ranking measures academics not by fame, institutional halo or lifetime achievement, but by recent, demonstrable research performance - publication volume, quality, citation impact and what measuresHE calls “research gravitas.”
In the 2011 film Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who stops trusting inherited wisdom about what a “great player” looks like and start trusting the data. The newly released Talent 100 Ranking for Business & Economics does the same.
