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.
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