We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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 higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower …

management practices (lean manufacturing, continuous improvement and monitoring). This suggests that Private Equity ownership is …We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms … associated with broad based operational improvement in management rather than just stronger performance incentives. Finally …