Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

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

Article | Review of Economics and Statistics | Forthcoming

Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

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

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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.

Keywords: management; Hospitals; mortality; education; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Business Education; Management Practices and Processes;

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Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van Reenen. "Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare." Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming).

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