When Was The Last Time You Thanked Your Staff?
As more than half of workers admit to checking emails and working on evenings and weekends, and cases of burnout rise we explore how managers can best support staff productivity and wellbeing
Why Nobody Blinks at a $13 Steak
Beef prices hit records this summer and US consumers bought more of it than ever. The explanation involves two ideas from business school, and neither one is about beef. One explanation concerns the way people think about money. The other concerns the way industries think about time. Between them they explain not just the cost of your ribeye but a mistake that companies in every sector make, over and over.
QS World University Ranking 2027 – Beyond The Top 10 The US Slips as Asia Surges
At first glance, the QS World University Rankings 2027 are a study in predictability. MIT is first, as it has been since 2012. Imperial, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge follow, as they always do. But look one layer down and the table is anything but inert.
Who Would Win In A World Cup Of Universities?
Have you ever wondered what the World Cup would look like if it was based on the prestige of the countries’ universities rather than their footballers? What if it the star player wasn’t Messi but Marx? Not Neymar but Newton? Welcome to the World Cup of Universities.
Which Countries Lead the World in Academic Research? The Data Has a Few Surprises
Dreaming spires and ivy-clad walls say little about the quality of academic research being produced across an entire national system The measuresHE Country 100 ranking 2026 measure which countries have built the deepest, most rigorous, most open and most consistently excellent research ecosystems, from top to bottom. The results may surprise you.
Moneyball for Business Schools – What the Talent 100 Reveals About Where Research Impact Really Lives
In the 2011 film Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who stops trusting inherited wisdom about what a “great player” looks like and start trusting the data. The newly released Talent 100 Ranking for Business & Economics does the same.
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.
BlueSky Ranking of Economics Rankings 2024
Which are the best universities in the world for Economics? BlueSky Thinking has the Ranking of Economics Rankings 2024, compiling the results of the major global subject rankings published by THE, QS and US News,