February is the year’s great in-between, a month of brevity and pause, where winter lingers but the senses turn toward spring and renewal. It is a study in contrasts—grey mornings and golden ambitions, cold winds and the warm pulse of plans taking shape. The month moves quickly, yet carries the weight of expectation, with all impatient for what comes next. In its fleeting days, there is urgency, a quiet insistence that what is imagined must soon be made real. February is not for hibernation but for preparation, the deep breath before the world tilts toward spring.
We at BlueSky Education were also full of ambition and urgency this February, placing our clients in top media with a golden regularity.
Corvinus University of Budapest, among many other BlueSky clints, commented on Trump’s attacks on DEI on the hallowed website of top business school news publication Poets and Quants. Also in Poets and Quants you can now meet the fascinating and varied MBA class of Imperial College London Business School’s class of 2025.
In the pages of Abu Dhabi’s the National, Soumitra Dutta, dean of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, wrote a muscular op-ed on how business schools must keep ever-more-powerful businesses honest.
Maria Kakarika, a professor at Durham University Business School, appeared in the Guardian, speaking expertly on how to gossip at healthily at work.
Trump has dominated the news so far in 2025, and ESSEC Business School, Imperial, INSEAD, and Mannheim Business School appeared in Forbes to lay out how leaders can successfully navigate the choppy waters of Trump’s second presidency. This was also syndicated to millions more readers in Yahoo!
Professor Himanshu Rai, the Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, talked about what India – a country poised to become a major world player and key industrial hub – needs for its business school sector to truly take off in Times Higher Education (THE). Also in THE, Guillaume Carton, associate professor of strategy at EMLyon business school, wrote on how AI strategy can be integrated into a business education.
A paper from Bocconi University appeared in the Economist, on how the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to the current crisis of trust in America.
Also in THE, any reader can now find out the top three ways in which they can ensure that teaching makes a lasting societal impact, a topic very much front of mind for business school students today, courtesy of Baback Yazdani, executive dean of Nottingham Business School (NBS), part of Nottingham Trent University.
In Euronews, Supriya Kapoor, associate professor of finance at Trinity Business School, speaks about the extent to which Ireland is exposed to Trumps’ tariffs, and how it exports a great deal to the USA.
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