2017 full-time MBA ranking

Reports of the MBA’s demise are exaggerated

A part of the American market may be in decline, but globally the qualification continues to thrive

The deglobalisation of the MBA

Shrinking reach

Increasing political isolationism means business schools are struggling to attract international students

Management-research funding

We’ll be seeing EU

A funding crunch for British business schools is likely to be exacerbated by Brexit

MBA diary: University of Edinburgh Business School

From Gaza to Edinburgh

Amany Haniya had to leave her family behind in Gaza to study an MBA at the University of Edinburgh Business School. It has been tough, but worth it

Treating the MBA malaise

Adapt or die

Business schools are discovering that offering the same old MBA programmes is no longer enough to thrive

Academic view

Leaders need coaching skills

Companies increasingly want their leaders to have coaching skills. Professor Julia Milner of EDHEC Business School explains what business schools can do

Artificial intelligence

Rise of the machines

How business schools are meeting the demand for incorporating AI and machine learning in MBA programmes

MBA diary: HEC Paris

Hard choices

Evgeni Tsenter, an MBA student at HEC Paris, explains how an ethics course at a medieval monastery opened his eyes to the dilemmas faced by managers

Executive education

In the classroom

Your correspondent sits in on an executive leadership programme

MBA diary: MIT Sloan

Making a difference

Sean Jennings, an Executive MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains why he has returned to school, decades after dropping out of college

Business schools and alt currencies

Risking it all on bitcoin

Students and business schools alike are catching on to cryptocurrencies

Management education and ethics

Greed is no longer good

Business schools are teaching MBAs how to pursue purity, not profit

Management ideas

People first

Why business schools are offering more courses in "design thinking"

Businesses and business schools

Ties that bind

Business schools are forging closer links with industry

Online MBAs

Going digital

More schools are offering online MBA programmes

Gender equality on MBA programmes

Slow progress

Progress in closing the gender gap for MBAs is painfully slow

MBA diary: ESADE

Sweet on chocolate

Selene Scotton, an MBA student at ESADE Business School, explains how working for the Peace Corps in west Africa piqued her interest in the cocoa industry