The $70,000 OPT Fee For International Students That Turns Tomorrow’s Business Leaders Away From the U.S.
Six of the tech leaders at last week's White House AI lunch came to America as international students. Under a new DHS proposal, the schools that trained them would now pay $70,000 each to let their successors stay and work. Washington wants to turn America's universities into a toll booth on the road from campus to career.
Where Should Harvard Business School Build An International Campus?
The FT reported that Harvard Business School spent part of last year working out how to teach its MBA somewhere other than Boston, holding talks with schools in Europe and Canada. Harvard says the trigger was the threat to international student visas, that the threat receded, and that nothing further is under way. Let's say the file never got closed. Where in the world does an M7 school put its second home?
The Influencers: Laura Morgan Roberts on How to Bring Your Best Self to Work
What if we asked people to articulate what they look like at their very best, and built from there? That question is the foundation of Laura Morgan Roberts' work. The UVA Darden Professor and founder of The Alignment Quest Enterprise, Roberts has spent more than two decades building the science of human potential from the ground up.
MIT Sloan #1 In The QS MBA Ranking 2027, While Dartmouth Tuck Is #55
MIT Sloan is #1 for the first time in the QS Global MBA Rankings 2027. Harvard is #2 and Stanford GSB, while Wharton slumps to #4. There are three UK schools in the top ten, but no Asia schools in the top 20. Tuck is #55, slightly ahead of a little-known school in the UAE, while INSEAD's diversity rank is #131. Another day, another MBA ranking.
Eight Years At #1 For Stanford In Bloomberg Businessweek MBA Ranking 2026-27
Ask MBA graduates and recent alumni to rank the four most important factors when considering business school, and compensation comes out on top. The Bloomberg Businessweek MBA ranking has used this approach since 2018, and this year Compensation accounts for 40.6% of the US schools score. Stanford GSB is #1 in the US for the eighth consecutive year, with IMD, Ivey and Shanghai at the top in their regions.
Harvard Can Count Its Unicorn Founders, But Can It Prove It Made Them?
For years, business schools have been good at counting the unicorns among their alumni. The next challenge is demonstrating the role they played in creating them. Maybe what matters is the ability to connect: management with engineering, ideas with capital, researchers with operators, people who want to start something with people who already have.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles But Destroyed The World
For the past ten years, Harvard MBAs have evaluated the strategic vision and risk-taking of Elon Musk through cases written by David Yoffie. His most recent, Elon Musk, 2025: The Master of Big Bets?, introduces a question mark. It covers Tesla, SpaceX and xAI alongside the backlash from Musk’s politics, and asks students whether his ambitions amount to “visionary leadership or overextension”. Based on the new documentary, Musk that question mark is about to get a lot bigger.
The 15 Podcasts Every MBA Should Listen To
Podcasts are one of the best lessons for business students. The most interesting people in strategy, finance, marketing and entrepreneurship are all now talking into microphones, for free, at length, and often more candidly than they would in a lecture hall or an annual report. Here are the 15 podcasts BlueSky Thinking has chosen to enrich your business knowledge, with details of what each is good for, where to start, and episodes to start with.