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Healthy business? : managerial rducation and management in healthcare

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Lemos, Renata; Van … - 2017

We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower … mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …

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Healthy business? : managerial education and management in healthcare

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2017

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In brief: Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

There are strong links between the performance of US manufacturing plants and the quality of their systems of monitoring, targets and incentives, according to research by Professor Nicholas Bloom and colleagues. Their analysis of data on more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first...

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The new empirical economics of management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...

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Does Management Matter? Evidence From India

Bloom, Nicholas; McKenzie, David - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2010

A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...

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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas; Eifert, Benn; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firmlevel management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has been...

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What Drives Differences in Management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Genakos, Christos; Sadun, Raffaella; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across twenty countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best managed. Firms in...

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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

We present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There...

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