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…

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

"Mapping the Dynamics of Management Styles Evidence from German Survey Data" by Florian Englmaier Florian Englmaier Michael Hofmann & Stefanie Wolter uses unsupervised ML on HD survey data to describe clusters of management practices Economics LMU Munich @iab_news CESifo Predictive People Analytics

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

' David Jordan Sweta Pramanick & John Turner 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 QUB Economic History QUBBusiness

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

'Roberta Gatti & Atif Islam World Bank MENAAP 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

Our paper "Management Practices & Resilience to Shocks: Evidence from COVID-19" published in Management Science INFORMS 📚 Grateful for a superb experience with editor Alfonso Gambardella & the support from European Research Council (ERC) Link: bit.ly/49YMiFy Andrea Lamorgese andrea linarello

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%. Chicago Booth's Chad Syverson, Robert Metcalfe, Alexandre Sollaci ow.ly/3Ls450QYQRg

"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

🎬✨That's a wrap on the first amazing season!🎉 Huge thanks to all our incredible guests who made it great🌟John Van Reenen Ruveyda Nur Gozen Ufuk Akcigit Pierre Azoulay Petra Moser Heidi L. Williams Benjamin Jones #NaomiLamoreaux Xavier Jaravel Daron Acemoglu Stefanie Stantcheva #PhilippeAghion

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%. Chicago Booth's Chad Syverson, Robert Metcalfe, Alexandre Sollaci ow.ly/3Ls450QYQRg

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 Tera Allas CBE | @teraallas.bsky.social & chaired by me! Registration Online buff.ly/3z0mxXO

🆕Now published in Management Science🆕 "Managerial and Financial Barriers to the Green Transition" Link and 🧵👇 pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.128… w/ Ralf Martin Mirabelle Muuls Helena Schweiger

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

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 Nick Bloom John Van Reenen

Nice to see our latest NBER paper summarised by The Economist showing how firms respond to inflation releases within hours Nick Bloom Bank of England Research Decision Maker Panel Stian Westlake Economic and Social Research Council King's Business School Office for National Statistics (ONS) Grant Fitzner economist.com/finance-and-ec…

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 Nick Bloom, Mihai Codreanu, and Robert A. Fletcher nber.org/papers/w33384