Managerial Econ

Rainer Zitelmann writes in How Capitalism Beat Communism in Vietnam in Reason Magazine, The state collectives did not reward members for t...

WSJ: Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour, Thanks to AI Ironically, what began as an effort to promote transparency and efficiency for legal wor...

A primary role of HR is to screen job applicants to address adverse selection in hiring. Now they can automate much of this with apps like H...

I am enjoying the History of the Germans Podcast by Dirk Hoffnan-Becking. Along with endless "Game of Thrones" style dynastic str...

As we all know, Work From Home (WFH) arrangements became important with the COVID-19 pandemic. However, five years on, about a  quarter of t...

It was the most terrifying moment of my entrepreneurial journey.  I was 31 - a farm kid from Mississippi, sweating through my suit jacket a...

Unionized plants have worse incentive alignment: 26% less likely to offer performance-based bonuses.  11% less likely to promote based...

Someone at the WSJ read Why the U.S. Produces More Unicorns than the EU Limited Presence of Major Tech Firms :  Apple's market cap ...

From ChatGPT: Thomas Jefferson would likely have mixed feelings about a Department of Government Efficiency, depending on its scope and func...

The NFL had been the only large US sports league to prohibit private equity firms from owning teams. Beaton and Gottfried at the WSJ report...

The effectiveness of incentivizing routine or manual tasks has often been been studied. The effectiveness of incentives for non-routine, an...

The WSJ has posted a nice eight minute video about the hotel business as part of their " Economics of " series. One trends has be...

Summary by author in HBS : "In the late 1970s, the firms on the S&P 500 had been on that list for 35 years, on average; by 2019,...

We will review and consider revising our current DEI goals while still ensuring a respectful environment. [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion] Wit...

As a result of declining attendance and giving, driven partly its emphasis on politics instead of ministry, administration costs have risen ...

NPR's interveiw with Chancellor Diermeier : Vanderbilt University, "...will not take policy positions unless they directly affect ...

A new paper by Bandiera et al . focuses on how matching worker skills to job characteristics affects productivity. They use detailed data fo...

From "Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams" ( SSRN ):  Among the randomly-assigned teams [of MBA students], greater ...

Begun in Maryland in 2012, thirty states now have Public Benefits Corporations (B-corp's) ( wikipedia , seeking alpha , quora )  F...

A new multiple author study looks at how workers sort into, or out of "good" firms, that is, firms with environmental, social, an...