The Influencers: Lynda Gratton on How to Build a Career That Lasts and a Life You Love
Lynda Gratton has spent three decades at London Business School asking, if the rules of a working life have changed this dramatically, why are we still playing by the old ones? This September, she publishes Living the 100-Year Life, a book about how to build a career that lasts and a life you love.
MIT Sloan is #1 in FT MBA Ranking 2026 Ahead of INSEAD and Wharton
MIT Sloan has achieved MBA gold in the FT Global MBA Ranking 2026, securing the #1 spot for the first time with a massive five place jump. Sloan replaces Wharton, which drops to #3, while INSEAD climbs to take second place and another year among the medals.
Why Working Through The Holiday Season Can Backfire For Everybody
It usually starts with a short email. “Just checking in over the break…” Sometimes it’s framed as helpful. Sometimes as dedication. Occasionally as reassurance that nothing is falling through the cracks. But over the holiday season, that message carries more meaning than its sender often realises. Not dedication, but dysfunction.
What the Office Party Really Reveals
In the run up to the holiday season, calendars quietly filled with events that no one quite knows how to feel about. The office party. Everyone has a story. What if the office party isn’t a sideshow but one of the most revealing leadership moments of the year?
Why Year-End Gratitude Emails Often Backfire
Most year-end “thank you” emails don’t motivate. They reveal something else entirely. Business school research shows that generic gratitude often backfires because people don’t feel appreciated unless they feel noticed. Why saying “thank you” is easy, and why doing it well is much harder:
The Influencers: Herminia Ibarra’s Playbook for Career Change & Real Growth
We often talk about leadership and career change as if they’re tidy, linear stories - moments of clarity, followed by decisive action, rewarded by neat outcomes. Herminia Ibarra has spent her career dismantling that myth. For her, growth is rarely graceful. It’s awkward, improvised, and deeply human.
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.