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.
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.
MIT Sloan has achieved MBA gold in the FT Global MBA Ranking 2026, securing the #1 spot for the first time with a massive five place jump. Sloan replaces Wharton, which drops to #3, while INSEAD climbs to take second place and another year among the medals.
Beyond the overall position of schools in the league table, but the FT MBA ranking has a wealth of data that provides great insight about salary, career progress, diversity, research and ESG. Dive into the detailed metrics that make up the overall results,
We want our children to flourish in a world that feels more competitive, more precarious, and more unforgiving than the one we grew up in. And yet, if we ask ourselves what we most deeply want for our sons and daughters, the answers are rarely about outcomes.
