promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France …

This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree ("business managers") reduce … by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are … retirements and deaths and an IV strategy based on the diffusion of the practice of appointing business managers within industry …

offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower …

randomized controlled trial. Consistent with standard practice for training investments within firms, we asked middle managers … or favoritism. Instead, consistent with the fact that supervisor turnover comes at a large effort cost to middle managers … due to gaps in coverage and onboarding, middle managers prioritized retention over productivity impacts. Indeed, treated …