Canada. The paper first provides a conceptual framework for understanding the challenges of financing scale-ups. It then … shows some data about the various aspects of financing scale-ups in the US, Europe and Canada. Finally the paper raises the … successful companies. We examine the long-term financing of these so-called scale-up companies, focusing on the US, Europe and …

, Europe and Canada. We first provide a conceptual framework for understanding the challenges of financing scale-ups. We then … show some data about the various aspects of financing scale-ups in the US, Europe and Canada. Finally we raise the question … successful companies. We examine the long-term financing of these so-called scale-up companies, focusing on the United States …

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 …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable … centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …