Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply … reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We … find large cross-country differences in the adoption of management practices, with the US having the highest size …

secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the … management is driven by two key organizational trade-offs: employee initiative vs. coordination as well as exploration of novel …

.e., impulsivity and length of financial planning horizon, smokers are more impatient. However, neither of these measures is … measures of time preference and self-control, i.e., impulsivity and financial planning, are more closely related to the smoking …

estimates show that planning behavior can explain the differences in savings and why some people arrive close to retirement with …

the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention on a repeated behavior using a randomized design involving 877 … weeks. In contrast to recent studies, we find that the planning intervention did not have a positive effect on behavior and … planning is helpful and despite clear evidence that they engaged with the planning process …