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.
BlueSky Thinking reviews the educational and professional backgrounds of the CEOs leading the top 50 companies in the 2025 Drucker Institute Company Ranking. These leaders represent a highly global, highly technical cohort, but with very few women.
For centuries, we’ve been urged to carpe diem - seize the day. And sure, seizing the day is great in theory. But in practice? Days are short. They flash by. So perhaps it’s time to upgrade Horace’s ancient maxim. Welcome to carpe mensem, the art of seizing the month.
Katy Perry has made her relationship with former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau “Instagram official”. Is this a case of status transfer, absorbing social value simply by being associated with someone who already has it.
Why has Sunday has become a shadow workday? What research reveals about this behaviour, and how to use the workweek to free Sunday once again for what it was meant to be: a day off.
What if the solution to America’s demographic funk isn’t just policy tweaks or tax credits, but something far more audacious and surprisingly simple? imagine a version of America where the wealthiest citizens chip in to help the next generation start not just at zero, but with genuine financial lift-off.
In December 2025 there are eleven companies with a market cap above $1 trillion. Nine of them are in the U.S., with Saudi Aramco and Taiwan's TSMC completing the list. Why do the U.S. firms dominate the club? And what would it take for a European company to join them?
Ranked among the world’s most influential thinkers by Thinkers50, Meyer has built a career out of decoding why people from different cultures hear the same words but interpret entirely different meanings, and why so many global teams fail not because of strategy or skill, but because of misread signals.
The FT European Business School Ranking 2025 presents a landscape that, at first glance, looks reassuringly familiar. INSEAD once again secures #1 overall, followed by HEC Paris (#2) and London Business School (#3). But beneath this stable top three lies a far more interesting story.
Steve Jobs told a reporter, “We limit how much technology our kids use at home." It’s one of the great contradictions of modern tech: the people building the future often don’t want their children fully exposed to it. So what does OpenAI CEO Sam Altman actually wish for his child? Will he pull a Steve Jobs and quietly lock the AI toys in a metaphorical cupboard while the rest of us raise our kids with ChatGPT co-parenting from the cloud?
