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Category: Learning & Careers

Advice on personal professional development, life-long learning, transferrable skills, flexible working, remote working and hybrid working from business experts

What Makes The Greatest Lectures So Unforgettable?

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.

The Most Pessimistic Young Job Hunters In The World Live In America, For Now

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.

Why Leadership Needs Moral – Even Spiritual – Grit

Business schools are shifting toward embedding philosophy, ethics, and spirituality into leadership training. Drawing on core spiritual ideas which teach cooperation and teamwork, real change is being embedded in curricula and the classroom

Business Research After FT50 Reshuffle And MIT Sloan Management Review closure

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.

Which Countries Lead the World in Academic Research? The Data Has a Few Surprises

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.

Can the MBA Make You Joyful?

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.