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Category: World View

International views and societal comments on life issues including globalisation, women in the workforce, work life balance, vaccinations, parenthood and more.

Asia Ascends: The 2025 FT EMBA Ranking And The Shift To The East

The FT EMBA Ranking 2025 reads like a map of Asia’s growing power in management education. Nine of the top eleven programmes have a campus or partnership in Asia - most prominently China - signalling a geographic rebalancing of influence at the senior-executive level.

Beyond Salary and Careers: Why Research Matters in the FT Business School Rankings

If you ask a group of MBA, MiM or exec ed candidates what matters most to them when choosing a business school, the answers come quickly: post-graduation salary, career progression, international mobility, perhaps achieving the specific goals they’ve set for themselves. But how often does a prospective student, or even an alumnus say, “I’m choosing this school because of its research output”? Almost never.

7 Ways Elon Musk Could Spend Half a Trillion Dollars

Elon Musk has become the first person to reach $500 billion net worth. This is physics-defying money. So how do you spend it? It’s no easy task, because if he lives until his mid 80s he has to spend nearly $2 million every hour. Here are seven ways he could spend his fortune.

BlueSky Ranking of University Rankings 2025/26

Results of the big four university rankings - THE QS, US News and ARWU - can vary wildly. That makes the BlueSky Ranking of University Rankings so powerful. By aggregating the results of all four league tables, it delivers a composite picture of who is truly on top in global academia. The 2025/26 results are telling when compared to three years ago.