Bright Young Stars Rarely Finish on Top – How To Build Your Career For Longterm Success
Those who show exceptional promise at a young age are rarely the individuals who dominate their field in adulthood, according to research published in Science. So how does excellence actually unfold to build your career for the long-term?
Once Upon a Time in the Job Market: How Business Schools Are Teaching the Art of Storytelling
In today's environment, storytelling is no longer a “soft” skill. It is a survival skill - the ability to frame decisions, explain trade-offs, humanise strategy and make people care. Business schools, once accused of teaching managers to speak in spreadsheets, are now quietly becoming finishing schools for corporate narrators.
Where Did The CEOs Of The 50 Best-Managed Companies in America Go To School?
BlueSky Thinking reviews the educational and professional backgrounds of the CEOs leading the top 50 companies in the 2025 Drucker Institute Company Ranking. These leaders represent a highly global, highly technical cohort, but with very few women.
France Dominates the Top 10 in the FT European Business School Ranking 2025
The FT European Business School Ranking 2025 presents a landscape that, at first glance, looks reassuringly familiar. INSEAD once again secures #1 overall, followed by HEC Paris (#2) and London Business School (#3). But beneath this stable top three lies a far more interesting story.
Why JPMorgan’s New $3BN Office Might Actually Be A Smart Investment
What does it take to keep employees happy when they're required to work in the office full time? JPMorgan's new HQ might boast a Park Avenue address, a bar and a gym, but is that really what employees need to get better work life balance?
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.
If you Studied With Other Women, Chances Are You’re Enjoying More Career Success
The old boys' network has long been an influencing presence, from business schools and boardrooms. But, it turns out, such a network exists for women too. More to the point, when it comes to women getting ahead, it works.