Andrew Garthwaite

In many parts of the world, the outcome of the Covid-19 outbreak has a lot to do with the choices people make about social distancing and obeying restrictions, as well as choices about their own personal care, such as maintaining a more thorough approach to handwashing or, more controversially, when it is appropriate to wear a mask. Those decisions will be influenced by each individual’s knowledge and beliefs, which – in turn – are shaped by the information they receive from government, from ...

A warning to markets over the exit poll

FT statistical journalist Andrew Garthwaite reports:

Sterling traders could be at risk of getting ahead of themselves if they respond too aggressively to tonight’s exit poll, which may be less precise than in recent years, leading academics have warned.

Overconfidence in the exit poll, due to be released at 10pm London time, may lead to dramatic fluctuations later in the evening as election results are declared, warned David Firth, the Warwick Universit...

How does the exit poll work?

The exit poll, released by TV broadcasters at 10pm on the dot, is the major set-piece event of the evening.

Andrew Garthwaite, an FT statistical journalist, has compiled a guide on what to expect:

The designers of the exit poll credit its repeated success with the access the field workers have to information: they are asking voters who have already made a decision to tell them what they have just done.

“In three of the last four general elections, we’ve got the nu...

Delving into the data gathered for masters in management rankings over the past decade underscores the inequality in pay between male and female alumni three years after graduation — but it also highlights some surprises.

Other data show the most popular and lucrative careers for alumni and what happens to graduates’ incomes when they move abroad.

Three years after graduating with a masters in management, the median salary for men is higher than that for women in every sector of employment.

W...

Martin Fayulu was the clear winner of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential elections last month, a Financial Times analysis of two separate collections of voting data shows, contradicting claims from authorities that rival contender Felix Tshisekedi had won the historic vote.
The analysis points to huge fraud in the first change of power since Joseph Kabila took over the presidency of the mineral-rich central African nation almost 18 years ago. It is likely to embolden critics of M...

Political campaign groups with no obvious affiliation to any of the UK’s main parties have bought thousands of Facebook ads in the first month of the general election campaign, in a digital battle for votes that transparency campaigners warn is too opaque to be adequately monitored.

“And I was like, ‘An MBA? But that’s not for doctors!’ And he said, ‘Precisely’.”
Pelayo de Merlo, 39, recalls the night five years ago, when his husband-to-be startled him out of complacency. While working as an anaesthesiologist, Mr De Merlo enrolled on an online MBA with IE Business School in Spain. Three years after graduation, he became the managing director of Quirònsalud Hospital, Madrid.
Mr De Merlo’s medical career was thriving, but he felt that something was amiss. “I didn’t see muc...

The newsrooms that will thrive in a post-COVID-19 world will be the ones that embrace the shift to distributed teams. Here’s a guide how.
Over the past few weeks, social distancing policies and travel restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19 came into force in countries across the globe, impacting billions — journalists included. Almost overnight, news publishers had to find a new way of functioning that didn’t revolve around physical newsrooms. To add to the pressure, many newsrooms are ...

Newsrooms have quickly had to reconfigure as distributed, digital spaces. This playbook has been designed to help you chart a sustainable path forward, based on experience and strategic thinking.

The concept of the “newsroom” is one that conjures images of huddles of desks bustling with reporters, editors and producers working to cover the day’s events in real-time, surrounded by TV screens flashing breaking updates and the latest analytics.

With the start of social distancing policies as a r...

While global applications to business schools have declined year-on-year, the outlook for business education in Asia is optimistic thanks to a buoyant domestic market.
Nearly half (48 per cent) of the programmes in the region that responded to the Graduate Management Admission Council survey reported an increase in applications from domestic candidates this year. Some 37 per cent said applications from international students had increased.
The picture is not so rosy for Australia, however. So...

Many question the future of the MBA: applications for traditional two-year, full-time MBA programmes in the US have declined overall for five straight years, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council, which administers business school entrance exams.
But the executive MBA — a part-time programme that tends to be taken by people more established in their careers compared with those on full-time courses — is neither booming nor facing an existential crisis.
In this year’s Financial...

The masters in management is a rare example of growing demand in today’s subdued global business education market. Applications to MiM programmes around the world rose almost 3 per cent last year, while MBA demand was flat, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

Masters in management courses are also performing better than other specialist masters degrees, such as those focused purely on accountancy or finance. Demand for all specialist business masters degree programm...

Iese business school, based in Barcelona, tops the combined table for the fifth consecutive year.
Combined ranking 2019*: the top 50 schools, based on the rankings of customised and open-enrolment programme providers
*This table is compiled from the scores underlying the Financial Times Executive Education 2019 open enrolment and custom rankings, rather than the final rankings; both sets of data are given equal weight, but the overall result is therefore not equal to the average of the two pu...

Find out how we produced the Financial Times Executive Education Customised programmes ranking and the Open-enrolment programmes ranking 2019. Please also view the FT’s ranking of the top 50 combined custom and open-enrolment course providers.

Financial Times Executive Education 2019: Data collection and methodology

This is the 21st edition of the Financial Times rankings of the world’s leading providers of customised and open-enrolment executive education programmes.

The first ranking featur...

It pays to be on top in the business education market. Despite a torrid year for US schools, in which even the elite institutions suffered declines in applications, the same names make up the top 10 of the FT’s 2019 Global MBA ranking as last year.
There have been notable shifts in their positions within the top 10, however. Shanghai-based Ceibs (China Europe International Business School) rises to fifth, up from eighth in 2018, making it the highest placed Chinese school to date.
Harvard Bus...