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 …

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 …

management. To study this, researchers need to be able to measure school management accurately and cheaply at scale, and also … explain any observed relationship between school management and student learning. This paper introduces a new approach to … measurement using existing public data, and applies it to build a management index covering 15,000 schools across 65 countries …