Before We Shut Down Business Schools, Ask The People Who Went
The reaction to a NY Times article by business school professor, Chris Marquis saying it is time to shut business schools down has been extraordinary. Every voice so far seems to belong to a professor or a dean. The people who actually sat in the MBA classroom have barely been asked.
Kellogg-HKUST Back At #1 In FT EMBA Ranking 2026 With CEIBS #2 And IESE Jumps From 14th to 3rd
Kellogg-HKUST has claimed the top spot in the Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2026, replacing the WashU Olin / Fudan EMBA which stumbled from first to eighth. CEIBS remains at two, and the sixth consecutive year in the FT top three. Then comes a climb of ten places for the Global EMBA at IESE from 14th to 3rd, the highest of any European school.
Joe Rogan Doesn’t Need An MBA But His Media Business Might
Forbes' 2026 ranking of the world's highest-paid podcasters puts the combined earnings of the top 20 at $638 million. Joe Rogan leads with $82 million. A 2023 Morning Consult survey found that 57% of Gen Z would like to become influencers. If the next generation of media companies is being built by individuals with microphones and cameras, who is teaching the business of it?
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.
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.
Ten Strategies To Make The Most of Your MBA Or Masters
Ask an MBA alum for advice about making the m out of business school, the overwhelming response is 'prioritise." So many exciting possibilities, but only so much time in a day. BlueSky Thinking goes beyond the stellar advice turned to the insight and research of academics for ten specific suggestions to get the most from your MBA.