Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen

NBER Working Paper No. 23880
Issued in September 2017

---- Acknowledgments ----

We would like to thank the European Research Council and Economic and Social Research Centre for financial support through the Centre for Economic Performance. We are grateful to Daniela Scur for ongoing discussion and feedback on the paper. Dennis Layton, Stephen Dorgan and John Dowdy were invaluable partners in this project although we have received no financial support from McKinsey (or any other company). We thank Jonathan Haskel, Carol Propper and participants in seminars at the AEA, RES and MIT for helpful comments. An earlier version of this paper was entitled: “Does Management Matter in Healthcare?” The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

return to bibliography page