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 …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …

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 …

that has been shown to accompany a significant increase of women in top management untapped. Although more than half of all … has not changed the gender divide in top management. The percentage of women in board positions in Germany's largest 100 … equality in top management: with only 2% women on their executive boards and 16.5% on their supervisory boards, these state …

near-term increase in the proportion of women in senior management. …