The 2016 FT Executive Education rankings: full coverage

The Financial Times Executive Education magazine will help you choose the best management course for you. Evaluate business schools using our interactive rankings, and read our selection of features and interviews.

Highlights

• Inside McKinsey’s leadership factory

Consultancy is pushing into business education with own courses

• Analysis: 2016 FT Executive Education rankings

Established schools make significant strides while strong new entrants snap at their heels.

• The leading customised and open-enrolment programmes for 2016

Iese, HEC Paris, Cranfield, IMD, Darden and Insead are at the top

• Compare customised programmes with our interactive ranking tool

• Compare open-enrolment programmes

Interviews

• Viridor CEO Ian McAulay’s change of perspective

A Harvard management course at the time of 9/11 helped his classmates see the world differently

• Meet the dean: Peter Todd of HEC Paris

The Canadian says the institution must compete with the best in the world

Columnists

• Inspired by an 88 year-old’s fifth degree

Retired judge Oliver Popplewell embodies life-long learning — but mind the mid-career gap

• On Management: annual budget madness

The pervasiveness of budgeting is matched by the fear and loathing that surrounds it

• Thuli Madonsela — a South African leader

Pretoria Gibs’ Nicola Kleyn on why the public protector’s steely integrity is an inspiration

• Hopes & Fears: Going it alone

An IMD programme prompted corporate high-flyer Renée Dineen to change paths

• Hopes & Fears: Asymchem CEO Hao Hong

An executive education programme crystallised the founder’s ideas for a new direction

Features

• NFL players go to business school

Programme aims to tackle high levels of bankruptcy following retirement from NFL

• Learning to do good, better

Business schools increasingly tailor leadership courses to the needs of NGOs

• Is 3D printing the shape of food to come?

Entrepreneur Vaiva Kalnikaite wants you to ‘print your own fruit’

Reviews

• Book review: ‘The Disruption Dilemma’, by Joshua Gans How the buzziest concept in business has been disrupted • Technology: How to make crowdfunding work A look at the fundraising potential, the pitfalls — and the Exploding Kittens • Communities: Star qualities Former executive education students pick the famous person they want as a business partner