large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …

Tracking the movement of top managers across firms, we document the importance of manager-specific fixed effects in … managers’ corporate strategies, such as their preferences for internal growth and financial conservatism. Managers’ early …

Unlike performance incentives for private sector managers, little is known about performance incentives for managers in … public sector bureaucracies. Through a randomized trial in rural China, we study performance incentives rewarding school …

We analyze a new management survey for around 1,000 firms and 10,000 employees across two large provinces in China. The … unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We … poorly managed firms. This distribution of management scores is similar for CEOs, senior managers and workers management, and …

Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers … evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We … driven by changes in the behavior of managers and an overall better relationship between managers and workers …