TY - JOUR AU - Bloom, Nicholas AU - Lemos, Renata AU - Sadun, Raffaella AU - Van Reenen, John TI - Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 23880 PY - 2017 Y2 - September 2017 DO - 10.3386/w23880 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23880 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23880.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Nicholas Bloom Stanford University Department of Economics 579 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305-6072 Tel: 650/725-3266 Fax: 650/725-5702 E-Mail: nbloom@stanford.edu Renata Lemos World Bank 1850 I Street NW Washington, DC 20433 E-Mail: rlemos@worldbank.org Raffaella Sadun Harvard Business School Morgan Hall 233 Soldiers Field Boston, MA 02163 Tel: 617/495-6190 Fax: 617/495-0355 E-Mail: rsadun@hbs.edu John Van Reenen Department of Economics, E62-518 MIT 50 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142 E-Mail: vanreene@mit.edu AB - We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of 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 mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint MBA-healthcare courses may be a channel through which universities increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. ER -