Welcome to professors’ picks, offering a weekly curated selection of FT articles by and for business school faculty to connect classrooms to current events and to develop students’ critical thinking.

It was all to do with wind speed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.” One wonders if Adams’ words will prove prophetic?

George Wendt was an appropriate obituary choice for the FT (“The lugubrious beer-swilling everyman from ‘Cheers’”, Obituaries, FT Weekend, May 24) as Norm Peterson, Wendt’s character in the ...

Many investors hope to diversify systematic risks by balancing their portfolio allocations between various countries or regions. As your article notes (“Investors ask ‘what next’ as the American fever ...

From Bernard Snoy, Chairman, Robert Triffin International; Professor, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ...

The fact is that most quality bonds have governments behind them, even if safeguarding action may be left very late. Whereas crypto, even if backed by a reserve currency or gold, is more like a castle ...

Stephen Bush advocates more public spending to alleviate child poverty (“Britain’s two-child benefit cap must go”, Opinion, May 27). But he fails to mention how much this would cost (£2.5bn a year, ...

From Dea Markova, Policy Director, Fireblocks and Varun Paul, Senior Director for Financial Markets, Fireblocks, New York, NY, US ...

“Ambitious reform” of funding and regulation is needed to stave off financial crisis in UK higher education as competition for students is stopping cash-strapped universities joining forces to cut ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been warned by British business that his vaunted industrial strategy, to be published ...

US authorities are investigating a possible terrorist attack in Colorado, after reports that a man was “setting people on ...

Ukraine’s forces launched a massive drone attack on four airfields deep inside Russia that were home to strategic bombers used in air raids, officials said yesterday. The strikes were possibly Kyiv’s ...