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Milan 2026 Winter Games

The Financial Times proposes to publish this Special Report on 07 February 2026

We plan to include the following pieces of content (please note this list is provisional):

1. “A Games spread too thin?” — infrastructure & logistics under pressure

Milan’s Winter Olympics are shaping up to be a logistical stress test. With key competition venues separated by as much as eight hours of travel, the challenge of moving athletes, officials and fans efficiently is already raising alarms. The issue is compounded by unpredictable snowfall, putting transport reliability and scheduling at risk. The success of the Games may hinge on last-minute coordination fixes—and whether Italy can deliver infrastructure that matches the scale and visibility of the global spotlight.

2. “Back to performance” — Adidas attempts a strategic reset

After years of leaning heavily into fashion partnerships and lifestyle positioning, Adidas is pivoting back towards high-performance sportswear. Milan 2026 represents a staging ground for the brand’s renewed athletic identity. The company plans to spotlight new technical cold-weather gear, using elite competition to rebuild credibility and challenge Nike and Lululemon in performance innovation. The question: will consumers buy into this return to sport—or has the cultural pivot to fashion left a gap that’s now harder to reclaim?

3. “A leadership trial by ice” — Coventry’s early era faces scrutiny

Kirsty Coventry, newly positioned as a leading figure in the Games’ oversight and strategic direction, enters the role amid cost overruns, slow-moving broadcast negotiations, and rising public pressure over planning progress. Known globally for her athlete-first values, Coventry must now balance idealism with operational reality. Her ability to restore confidence, maintain unity across committees, and navigate media critique will help define both the tone and stability of the Games in the lead-up to opening ceremonies.

4. “Winning attention” — sponsors rethink how to reach audiences

With linear TV audiences declining and viewership splintering across platforms, brands and Olympic sponsors are rethinking where and how to activate. Rather than relying solely on traditional advertising windows, sponsors are planning to lean into athlete-driven storytelling, real-time social moments, and immersive fan experiences. Milan could become a blueprint for a new Olympic commercial model—if brands can execute at the speed and authenticity required by today’s digital-first sports fan.

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Global MBA Ranking 2026

The Financial Times proposes to publish this Special Report on 16 February 2026

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The 2026 FT Global MBA Ranking. 

Assessing the top business school providers of MBAs around the world, plus school profiles, key and methodology.

Analysis. 

The FT’s global education editor looks at how business schools performed in the ranking and why, plus broader trends in business education.   

ROI recalibration. 

As even some alumni of elite courses struggle in a tougher job market, prospective students are pressing schools hard on what return on investment they can expect - not least in the US, where costs are higher and applications are down. Can the MBA’s premium be justified as costs climb and outcomes soften?

High flyers. 

A survey of high-achieving members of MBA "honours societies" around the world: what they learnt, what was most valuable and how useful the degree has been in their careers and lives.

Apply yourself. 

A guide to choosing the right MBA programme for you and how to get on it, from applications to admissions consultants, essays, exams and interviews.

On course. 

How to get the most from the MBA experience, including what to expect, study tips, managing time and stress - and the job search.     

AI intel. 

Looking at the business schools around the world that are most advanced in teaching with, teaching about and research on artificial intelligence.

Charting the course:   The MBA in data and graphics. 

Voices of experience. 

Students and alumni from around the world answer questions on what they learnt and share tips for those who follow. 

On placements. 

A key part of many programmes, placements range from corporate projects to the highly adventurous, “learning by doing” in sometimes challenging environments.     

Professor’s column. 

An academic from a leading business school applies academic scrutiny to a current issue in business or leadership. 

Study story. 

A graduate explains in their own words and in depth why they decided to study for an MBA, what the experience was like and what it has meant in their working life and beyond.  

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UK’s Leading Management Consultants

The Financial Times proposes to publish this FT Report on 26 February 2026

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Overview

The major trends in an industry that is being reshaped by changing demands from clients and the impact of new technologies such as AI.

Defence boom

Consultancy work for defence clients has risen because of the increase in defence spending in Europe, as the region reacts to the Ukraine war and reduces its dependency on the US. 

Comment: The impact of reputational crises

Do management consultants' reputational crises really affect their relationships with clients or prospects for new business?

The future for entry-level jobs at consultancies

What will entry-level jobs at consultancies look like, how many jobs could be lost because of AI and what skills will graduates need?

The rise of AI consultancy start-ups

A number of consultants have left big firms to create AI start-ups that sell tools to consultancies and their clients. Are big firms concerned about competition? 

Crime management

How consultancies have played a key role in helping UK police forces to build systems that can quickly pull results from multiple, often mutually incompatible databases to help frontline officers police their areas more effectively, and ensure vulnerable people are safeguarded.

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The Business of Formula One

The Financial Times proposes to publish this FT Report on 5 March 2026

We plan to include the following features (please note that this list is provisional):

2026 Rules Revolution: The Biggest Reset in Modern F1

F1 enters 2026 with a rare full-stack reset: power units, chassis philosophy, tyres and sustainable fuels. This explainer lays out what’s changing, why the sport is doing it now, and how success will be judged, from closer racing to cost control and road relevance.

Column: Are the 2026 rules a bold vision or a compromised experiment?

The 2026 package aims to solve everything at once, and that’s exactly the worry. This piece tests the regulation logic against the loudest fears, from drivability to racing quality and technical trade-offs, asking whether the sport has designed a leap forward or a brittle compromise.

Audi’s Long Game

Audi’s arrival is the biggest new manufacturer bet in years, but the short-term expectations are deliberately modest. We unpack why F1 fits Audi’s strategy, what “success” looks like across the decade, and whether its timeline holds up on a grid that’s getting more crowded and expensive.

Williams: Ready to Rejoin the Front Row?

Williams has become a credible operator again, ending 2025 as the best of the rest behind the top four while sacrificing late-season development to prioritise 2026. This story tracks the operational turnaround and asks if the reset is finally the moment Williams can re-enter the lead group, not just flirt with it.

Graeme Lowdon, Team Principal, Cadillac

Lowdon returns to run Cadillac, F1’s 11th team and a statement US industrial entry that deepens the championship’s American momentum. In a deliberately tempered launch phase, he explains what Cadillac wants from F1, how it defines success, and what the timeline is from points to podiums.

Eddy Cue, SVP Services, Apple

Apple’s move for US F1 rights is a high-stakes play to turn premium sport into a services engine. Cue sets out what an “Apple-style” broadcast means, how it plans to reach younger audiences, and how Apple’s scale could redraw the US media economics around the sport.

Brands entering F1 to target a female audience

As F1’s female audience grows, brands are using the sport, and especially F1 Academy, as a premium route to reach women. This piece unpacks F1’s strategy to expand its reach, and the lessons other sports can learn.

Who are the winners?

As winter testing ends, early patterns emerge in who has interpreted the new 2026 rules best, and who’s already firefighting on reliability, integration and pace. We map the early winners and strugglers, and the specific technical and organisational reasons certain teams look ahead before a race has even been run.

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Women in Business

The Financial Times proposes to publish this Special Report on 06 March 2026.

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Public profile

X’s AI chatbot Grok highlighted how women in politics and business with a public profile increasingly cope with online criticism. We look at how they deal with a new level of attack - and plans for the future. 

Pay gap reporting

What have we learnt from the data since countries such as the UK made reporting on the gender pay gap mandatory? 

Profile: A woman who has made a mark in her organisation or sector

Opinion: We explore a pressing theme for women in the workplace

Career planning

A generation is entering the workforce with insufficient experience of the world of work, thanks to the disappearance of ‘Saturday jobs’ for young people while still at school. We ask women about the jobs that gave them an insight into working life.  

Career planning

Job hopping vs long-term loyalty, and the new trends for flexibility and ‘liquid working’

Workplace: How to improve staff retention and development for women 

Home front

As more women upend traditional norms and out-earn male partners to become the ‘main breadwinner’, societal expectations are not keeping pace. We look at the numbers and how women,men and employers accommodate the changes 

How do I …? 

We look at building resilience for times of tumult; also, the current dos and don'ts of networking

‘A man’s world’ 

Forging a career in a sector traditionally with a male-dominated workforce. 

Entrepreneurship: Turning a mission into a business 

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Risk Management: Financial Institutions

The Financial Times proposes to publish this FT Report on 20 April 2026

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Introduction - financial institutions’ place in a changing world

The past year has been a tumultuous one, with US President Donald Trump raising tariffs and reshaping global politics. Against this background, financial institutions have had to prepare carefully for a future in which flexibility and the ability to adapt quickly will be key. 

Banks get to grips with AI risks

The growing use of AI by banks, as well as by their clients, is leading to a new set of risks that they all have to deal with. Whether it is the potential for AI-driven fraud or the possibility that new AI-driven systems might not function as intended, chief risk officers are having to get to grips with the new technology quickly. 

Insuring AI

Class action lawsuits against companies over their deployment of AI are becoming more common in the US but insurers are increasingly looking to exclude the technology from their corporate cover. Does the use of AI across the business world create a systemic risk for insurers?   

Insurers and private markets

Insurers around the world are increasingly investing in private market assets, both equity and debt. How well can they assess the value of assets that are not publicly traded, and how have their internal risk management systems had to evolve?

Changing interest rate risk

Interest rates are a key driver of profits for banks, but there is growing uncertainty around their future direction as inflation eases around the world. How can banks cope with the different pace of change around the world and, in some countries, the growing politicisation of interest rate decisions?

Banking competition

Incumbent lenders in Europe are facing an array of challenges. Start-ups such as Revolut and Monzo are gaining scale, while US rivals such as JP Morgan’s Chase brand are crossing the Atlantic looking for a share of the pie.

Asset management and the ESG divide

Asset managers have spent years developing their ESG policies, but regulations remain fragmented around the world, and the Trump administration’s criticism of ESG policies has added fresh complications. 

Cyber risks

Cyber risks to financial institutions have been around for decades, but are growing as threat actors become more sophisticated. How are potential targets dealing with the evolving cyber landscape? 

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The Future of Marketing

The Financial Times proposes to publish this FT Report in 27 April 2026

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Is the age of the Mad Men over?

This year could see the biggest ever upheaval in the marketing industry’s history, with questions over the future of some of the sector’s biggest companies. The full fallout of the IPG and Omnicom merger is still to come, while WPP is embarking on a root and branch turnaround. Are the days of big marketing groups over as ad spend shifts in-house and towards tech companies? And is an industry long powered by people - with their unique blend of logic, imagination, and facility with technology - now under threat?

How can brands navigate social media in 2026?

Social media sites are increasingly risky places for many brands to advertise given the relaxing of content moderation and potential for companies to be placed next to extreme or harmful content. But they are also where many customers now consume their news and entertainment, making them essential parts of a brand’s inventory. 

The role of the CMO: Math vs Magic

The role of the CMO is changing, becoming something between a technology leader to a strategy director. Can one person manage both the technical "maths" side - data stacks, AI integration - and the "magic" side - brand reputation and storytelling? 

The return of the 30 second ad spot 

The large global streamers once made a virtue of the fact that a subscription meant viewers could avoid ads, but are increasingly pushing audiences to mid-tier packages where there are frequent ad breaks. With Amazon and Netflix pioneering new ways of putting ads on their platforms, are we seeing the resurgence of the long-form TV ad? 

The unstoppable rise of influencer marketing

Influencers now make up an increasingly large portion of marketing spend, able to reach an audience seeking human interaction and away from the traditional marketing models. But there are also risks, not least what happens when an influencer says or does something wrong, while audiences are quickly getting fatigued by mainstream social media stars or inauthentic brand tie-ups.

Will AI destroy traditional advertising models?

Advertising and media could be heavily affected by AI. How can marketers optimise their brands’ digital footprint for the benefit of LLMs. How are the large AI firms approaching advertising, in terms of rolling out ads on chatbots and introducing paid search options?

The death of search

For decades the way people have found ‘stuff’ - be it brands, best deals on utilities or flights, or must have clothes - through search engines. TikTok and influencers have already dented this behaviour, but AI agents are increasingly making decisions on shoppers’ behalf. How do brands navigate this new world?

Sport and entertainment

Many marketers want to align themselves with sports, which can deliver a mix of attention, emotion, scale, and credibility that’s hard to achieve elsewhere. How do brands find partners with the right values? 

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The Business of Football

The Financial Times proposes to publish this FT Report on 11 June 2026

We plan to include the following features (please note that this list is provisional)

The biggest world cup ever (and the business case behind it)

A look at why 2026 could be the most commercially powerful World Cup yet: expanded format, more inventory, and more host-city spend. The story tests the hype with the numbers that matter, attendance, viewership, streaming reach, hospitality and ticketing yield.

How do you stage a mega-event across a continent?

A logistical deep-dive into running a World Cup across the US, Canada and Mexico: travel distances, base-camp planning, border frictions, team and fan movement, scheduling, security and stadium operations. 

The luxury fan: The cost to follow your country across America

This World Cup turns supporters into logistics managers and, increasingly, high-income consumers. We build a forensic “true cost” of attending (flights, hotels, tickets, internal travel, time off work), then report how fans from poorer countries hack the system: couch-surfing networks, community fundraising, debt.

The Cinderella economies

Expanded slots are rewriting football’s map, pulling new markets into the World Cup economy. We profile one “newcomer” nation as a business story: how diaspora scouting, dual-national pipelines and club pathways turn qualification into an economic event with prize money, sponsors and political capital at home.

Brazil: Export superpower, fading samba brand?

Brazil remains football’s most powerful talent factory, but its identity is now filtered through European clubs, agents and the transfer market. We investigate whether relentless exporting strengthens the Seleção as a global brand or dilutes the domestic ecosystem that once produced its distinctive style.

Turning the US into a football-loving nation

Can 2026 turn the World Cup into a lasting US football habit, or will it be a 39-day spike? And will Football ever usurp the position of US sports such as NFL, NBA and MLB?

The “part-time’’ World Cup star

A profile of a player from a debut or lesser-known World Cup nation (eg Cabo Verde, Curaçao or Uzbekistan) showing football’s hidden economic tiers: what it actually pays, where they play, and how precarious life can be outside the elite. The question is whether 2026 becomes a career-making shop window, translating into a better contract, sponsorship and long-term security.

Spain: Contenders in 2026, hosts in 2030

European champions Spain head into 2026 as one of the favourites, with a settled coach and a system that’s translating into results. The piece explores how that on-field push intersects with the off-field reality that Spain is already gearing up to co-host in 2030, including stadium and infrastructure choices, and the commercial strategy of selling “Spain” as both team and tournament platform.

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Investing in Wine

The Financial Times proposes to publish this FT Report on 17 September 2026

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Argentina 

Argentina’s wine industry has based its growth and success on the popularity of Malbec. But challenges are growing, as global drinking habits change and the peso strengthens. How is the wine industry - including big names such as Catena and Zuccardi - responding to these challenges? And how successful are attempts to diversify beyond Malbec and promote the industry through initiatives such as Cyber Wine Week?

Bordeaux / Burgundy 

A two year price crash during 2024-25 has offered opportunities to keen collectors in these two famous regions. Which wines offer good value? 

A Wine Trader’s View of Today’s Market 

Interview with a trader such as Gary Boom, the founder/CEO of Bordeaux Index, about how fine wine trading has changed in recent years and how younger investors view the market.

English Vineyards  

After a tough 2024 vintage and rising costs for vineyard owners, some winemakers put up For Sale signs. What has happened since? Will foreign winemakers buy more land as aging owners seek to cash out?

Italian wines

Italian wines get plenty of attention from wine lovers, but relatively few attract collectors. Which ones are worth considering for investors new to the country?

Storage

UK storage costs have risen just when the government has increased customs and VAT on wine. This has made holding lower value wines in external storage expensive. Should you clear out some of your lower priced wines?

Auctions

A review of the auction market for wine. Older collectors have increasingly put their large fine wine holdings up for sale.  

Wine Investment Schemes

Many investment schemes promise big or even steady returns based on past performance. But some of these businesses could be under financial pressure after years of declining fine wine prices and investor withdrawals. 

How to Sell

Buying is easy, but what about selling your fine wine? While collectors get plenty of help building their wine cellars, selling can require careful thought and planning. There are different routes to disposing of a selection of wines or an entire collection, including auctions, private sales or simply selling via a merchant. Associated costs may have to be balanced against efficiency and ease of exit.  

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