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Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution

Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018

. shared leadership, establish stability in shared leadership, or experience repeated discord-induced TMT leader departures …. While most firms do not experience smooth transitions to stable shared TMT leadership, a focus on value creation, in … conjunction with talent recruitment and promotion, enabled some firms to achieve stable shared leadership in spite of discord …

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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2008

We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...

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Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital : Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Gompers, Paul - 2006

This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are more likely to succeed than first time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. Funding by more...

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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Azoulay, Pierre - 2018

Many observers, and many investors, believe that young people are especially likely to produce the most successful new firms. We use administrative data at the U.S. Census Bureau to study the ages of founders of growth-oriented start-ups in the past decade. Our primary finding is that successful...

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Measuring Loan Outcomes at Postsecondary Institutions : Cohort Repayment Rates as an Indicator of Student Success and Institutional Accountability

Chou, Tiffany - 2017

Low- and middle-income college borrowers often struggle with economic opportunity and loan burdens after leaving school. However, some institutions, including some non-selective schools, do a good job of providing economic mobility to low-income students. This implies that there is scope for a...

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Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education

De Vlieger, Pieter - 2016

Instructors are a chief input into the higher education production process, yet we know very little about their role in promoting student success. This is in contrast to elementary and secondary schooling, for which ample evidence suggests teacher quality is an important determinant of student...

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Killer Incentives : Status Competition and Pilot Performance during World War II

Ager, Philipp - 2016

A growing theoretical and empirical literature shows that public recognition can lead employees to exert greater effort. However, status competition is also associated with excessive expenditure on status goods, greater likelihood of bankruptcy, and more risk taking by money managers. This paper...

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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success

Kautz, Tim - 2014

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills|personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...

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