What The Ivy League Sells Is Other People
Economists have spent years trying to explain why an Ivy League degree is worth roughly $101,000 more per year a decade after graduation. The answer they eventually found, after stripping out instruction quality, alumni networks in the conventional sense, and prestige signalling, was peer environment. Who you are in the room with.
Is the Market’s Euphoria Justified or Just Exuberant?
"How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values,” asked the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan in 1996. Will the current bull market end in tears?
The Happiness Syllabus and What Business Schools Know About Living Better
For decades business schools have studied what drives performance, engagement, and productivity. Much of the data keeps coming back to how people feel. Research on happiness is full of findings that contradict what most ambitious people assume to be true. Here are six of the most useful.
Legally Blonde to Gilmore Girls: How Movies & TV Shape The Dream of University Life
Whether it’s the heady romance of My Oxford Year, the pink-powered grit of Legally Blonde, or the bookish intimacy of Normal People, depictions of universities in film shape perceptions, influence applications, and, in some cases, inspire entire career paths.
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,