Management Research

Firms struggle to forecast, often making over-optimistic inaccurate forecasts. Running a 5-year 6,000 firm experiment finds that simple data interventions can yield large improvements, from @I_Am_NickBloom, @m_codreanu, and Robert A. Fletcher nber.org/papers/w33384

Nice to see our latest NBER paper summarised by @TheEconomist showing how firms respond to inflation releases within hours @I_Am_NickBloom @BoE_Research @DMP_BoE @stianwestlake @ESRC @kingsbschool @ONS @GrantFitzner economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Super excited to announce the 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference, which will gake place at HBS on December 12/13 2024. Please submit your papers at the link below. worldmanagementsurvey.org/emc2024/ Cc @danielascur @renata__lemos @I_Am_NickBloom @johnvanreenen

🆕Now published in Management Science🆕 "Managerial and Financial Barriers to the Green Transition" Link and 🧵👇 pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.128… w/ @mondpanther @MirabelleMuuls @helenaschweiger

A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers, from Yeaple and Eckel nber.org/papers/w32797

How much does management matter in an era of disruption? Launch of a new wave of World Management Survey buff.ly/4dUWIZ3 Online event 13 June, 1-2pm presented by @danielascur discussion @TeraPauliina & chaired by me! Registration Online buff.ly/3z0mxXO

Individual managers impact retail business productivity substantially. Replacing a low-quality manager w/ a high-quality manager could increase a store’s productivity by between 50%-100%. @ChicagoBooth's @ChadSyverson, @RDMetcalfe, @ASollaci ow.ly/3Ls450QYQRg

🎬✨That's a wrap on the first amazing season!🎉 Huge thanks to all our incredible guests who made it great🌟@johnvanreenen @ruveyda_gozen @ufukakcigit @pierre_azoulay @PMoserEcon @heidilwilliams_ @benjones #NaomiLamoreaux @XJaravel @DAcemogluMIT @S_Stantcheva #PhilippeAghion

"Management practices in facilities providing HIV services to key populations in Kenya & Malawi" by Andrea Salas-Ortiz et al. adapts the WMS to find management in community-based health facilities for HIV services associated with support & oversight Link: bit.ly/3Vr5PKh

Our paper "Management Practices & Resilience to Shocks: Evidence from COVID-19" published in Management Science @INFORMS 📚 Grateful for a superb experience with editor @agambardella61 & the support from @ERC_Research Link: bit.ly/49YMiFy @AndreaLamorgese @ALinarello

Individual managers impact retail business productivity substantially. Replacing a low-quality manager w/ a high-quality manager could increase a store’s productivity by between 50%-100%. @ChicagoBooth's @ChadSyverson, @RDMetcalfe, @ASollaci ow.ly/3Ls450QYQRg

'@RobertaGattiECO & Atif Islam @WorldBankMENA study family managers & management practices for 9,000 firms in 41 economies from World Bank Enterprise Surveys & find engagement of governments in corruption and political connections is influential Link: bit.ly/3OUljT5

We are pleased to welcome Itay Saporta Eksten as an IFS visitor for the next eighteen months. Itay is a Senior Lecturer at @TelAvivUni, a Research Affiliate at @iza_bonn and @cepr_org, and an associate editor at the Journal of Labor Economics. Read more: ifs.org.uk/news/itay-sapo…

' @DJordan_Econ @pramanick_sweta & @ProfJohnTurner find management practices in firms in Northern Ireland associated with ⬆️performance, exporting, innovation & digitisation + higher likelihood to permit managers to WFH Link: bit.ly/3TZu4yz @QUCEHBelfast @QUBBusiness

The diffusion of state-of-the-art managerial practices after WWII helped European firms close the productivity gap with U.S. companies

"Mapping the Dynamics of Management Styles Evidence from German Survey Data" by Florian Englmaier @FlorianEnglmai1 Michael Hofmann & Stefanie Wolter uses unsupervised ML on HD survey data to describe clusters of management practices @ECONMunich @iab_news @CESifoNetwork @PPA_lmu

@I_Am_NickBloom @mslater_johnson @Alison_Pei @StanfordEcon @DukeSanford @BerkeleyHaas "Firm Decentralization and Long-Run Growth" by Daron Acemoglu @daronacemogIu John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen & Sean Wang - find plants with greater autonomy from HQ experience faster growth over 15 years Slides: bit.ly/476Omce @MITEcon @LSEEcon @CEP_LSE @uscensusbureau

"Management Practices, Workplace Injuries and the Effects of Safety Regulations" : by @I_Am_NickBloom Matthew Johnson @mslater_johnson David Levine & Alison Pei @Alison_Pei @StanfordEcon @DukeSanford @BerkeleyHaas

Exciting Lineup of papers from the Empirical Management Conference 🧵

On Dec. 20, 6pm, join us for an enlightening lecture by @raffasadun, Professor of Business and Administration @HarvardHBS, who will talk about "Reskilling in the Age of AI" at the Inaugural Ceremony of the A.Y 23-24 @CollegioCA. Register now: bit.ly/41lx49V

The call for papers for the next @NBER Organizational Economics Working Group is out! We will meet on April 11-12, 2024 in Cambridge, MA. Submission deadline is 11:59 pm ET on Monday, February 12, 2024. Link for submission below, please retweet! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…