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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
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Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes
Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2016
the economy. I combine administrative data on income and leadership teams at publicly traded firms with a regression … admitted to these programs account for 41% of leadership positions and 39% of top 0.1% incomes. Admission raises the number of … leadership positions students hold by 44% and their probability of attaining a top 0.1% income by 51%. However, these gains are …
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Who's the Boss? The Effect of Strong Leadership on Employee Turnover
Carter, Susan Payne - 2016
Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …
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Mechanism design meets priority design : redesigning the US Army's branching process
Greenberg, Kyle; Pathak, Parag A.; Sönmez, Tayfun - 2021
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Mechanism design meets priority design : redesigning the US Army's branching process
Greenberg, Kyle; Pathak, Parag A.; Sönmez, Tayfun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Army cadets obtain occupations through a centralized process. Three objectives - increasing retention, aligning talent, and enhancing trust - have guided reforms to this process since 2006. West Point's mechanism for the Class of 2020 exacerbated challenges implementing Army policy aims. We...
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Eclipse of Rent-Sharing : The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark
Acemoglu, Daron; He, Alex Xi; Le Maire, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree ("business managers") reduce their employees' wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3...
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
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Failing Just Fine : Assessing Careers of Venture Capital-backed Entrepreneurs Via a Non-Wage Measure
Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper proposes a non-pecuniary measure of career achievement, Seniority. Based on a database of over 5 million resumes, this metric exploits the variation in job titles and how long they take to attain. When non-monetary factors influence career choice, inference benefits from the use of...
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On the Allocation and Impacts of Managerial Training
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Murathanoglu, Emir; Nyshadham, Anant - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the allocation and productivity consequences of training production line supervisors in soft skills via a randomized controlled trial. Consistent with standard practice for training investments within firms, we asked middle managers -- who sit above supervisors in the hierarchy -- to...
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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe
Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies to what extent the transfer of US managerial technologies to Europe after World War II contributed to closing the gap with US businesses. Between 1952 and 1958, the US government sponsored the Productivity Program, which promoted management training trips for European managers...
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