A survey of 50 companies across countries and industries reveals business leaders are hard at work adapting to the COVID threat. Research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues.
Winner of 59th Annual HBR McKinsey Award
A podcast from Freakonomics
How can we improve care for hospital patients? The key issue we need to figure out, says Professor Raffaella Sadun, is how to bring physicians and administrators together to work as a team and not as antagonists. Sadun studies management practices and how they affect organizational performance.
An Interview with Raffaella Sadun on how two traditionally connected technologies may appear to pull organizations in opposing directions, published on MIT Sloan Management Review (website), (April 5, 2016).
Practical Innovations in Health Care Delivery
Two new papers investigate the role of basic managerial processes across secondary schools and acute care hospitals in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Does Management Matter in Schools? (with Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen). Economic Journal, 125 (May 2015): 647-674.
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in 8 countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, then Italy, Brazil and with India on the lowest scores. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with substantial independence like UK academies and US charters) have significantly higher management scores than regular government schools and private schools. Almost half of the difference between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in better governance (accountability) and leadership of the principal/head.
Does Management Matter in Healthcare? (with Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen)
We collect data on management practices for operations, targets and human resources in 2,000 hospitals in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Sweden, UK and the US. These management practices are strongly associated with better clinical outcomes, such as heart attack survival rates, and financial outcomes like profits. We show that hospitals with more clinically trained managers, that are larger, that operate in more competitive markets, and that are not government owned appear to have significantly higher management scores. The US and UK have the highest average management scores, which we think may be due to relatively politically independent appointment of hospital leaders and stronger accountability mechanisms.
Does Management Matter in Schools? (with Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen). Economic Journal, 125 (May 2015): 647-674.
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in 8 countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, then Italy, Brazil and with India on the lowest scores. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with substantial independence like UK academies and US charters) have significantly higher management scores than regular government schools and private schools. Almost half of the difference between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in better governance (accountability) and leadership of the principal/head.
Does Management Matter in Healthcare? (with Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen)
We collect data on management practices for operations, targets and human resources in 2,000 hospitals in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Sweden, UK and the US. These management practices are strongly associated with better clinical outcomes, such as heart attack survival rates, and financial outcomes like profits. We show that hospitals with more clinically trained managers, that are larger, that operate in more competitive markets, and that are not government owned appear to have significantly higher management scores. The US and UK have the highest average management scores, which we think may be due to relatively politically independent appointment of hospital leaders and stronger accountability mechanisms.
Evidence From the Time Use of CEOs
CEOs are often cited as a key factor in determining the success of a firm. However, direct evidence on the behavior of corporate leaders is scant. To fill this gap, we record in detail the activities undertaken by 354 CEOs of listed Indian manufacturing firms over an exogenously chosen work week. We observe substantial heterogeneity in total hours worked ("labor supply") and the allocation of time across activities ("style"). In particular, CEOs can be divided in two groups. The CEOs in the first group (Style 1) are more likely to plan in advance, interact mostly with employees of the firms who are their direct reports, especially in production, and are more likely to meet with many people, and different functions, at the same time. The second group of CEOs (Style 2) is less likely to plan, more likely to meet with outsiders in one-to-one meetings. CEOs who work longer hours and that fall in the Style 1 category are associated with higher firm-level productivity and profitability. CEO labor supply and style are strongly associated with firm level characteristics. In particular, family CEOs work fewer hours and are less likely to adopt the more productive style. To investigate the source of these differences between family and non-family CEOs, we study the effect of two sources of shocks to the disutility of work: extreme weather and televised cricket matches. Controlling for other factors, family CEOs are more likely to decrease their labor supply in response to these shocks.
Harvard Business Review
Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net much wider than that. In a decade long study of thousands of organizations in 20 countries, they and their interview team assessed how well manufacturers, schools, and hospitals adhere to three management basics: targets, incentives, and monitoring.
HBR Blog Network
Are you among the 79%? In our research into more than 8,000 companies in 20 countries, 79% of organizations reported that their management practices were above average.
HBR Blog Network
REPORT
Healthcare expenditure represents a major challenge for all countries, absorbing an increasing percentage of national income. Nations are grappling with increases in demand for healthcare as their populations age and expectations rise along with living standards. At the same time, industrialised countries face budgetary shortfalls. As these nations seek to control healthcare costs, an unbalanced focus on “cost” can carry unacceptable consequences; therefore health systems across the developed world are focusing on enhancing quality and productivity. Implementing systemic change is daunting, but the results from this latest Management Matters in Healthcare research provide an optimistic message: improving management practices is a way to raise both quality and productivity. Thus, instilling better management practices could be a key part of addressing difficult challenges.
HBS WORKING KNOWLEDGE
What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses.
HBR BLOG - THE CONVERSATION
Since Coco Chanel unveiled her iconic black dress in Paris in 1926, that little black dress has become a clothing essential in every woman's wardrobe...In a similar vein I have been working with an international research team for the last decade to discover the essentials of management. This team — from the Harvard Business School, Cambridge University, the London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company, and Stanford University — has surveyed over 10,000 firms in over 20 countries, interviewed hundreds of CEOs, and even run multimillion dollar management field experiments in an unparalleled research effort to reveal some basic practices that every manager should follow.
A survey of 50 companies across countries and industries reveals business leaders are hard at work adapting to the COVID threat. Research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues.
A survey of 50 companies across countries and industries reveals business leaders are hard at work adapting to the COVID threat. Research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues.
Raffaella Sadun is a Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Sadun's research focuses on the economics of productivity, management and organizational structure in both the private and public sector. She is among the founders of the World Management Survey (www.worldmanagementsurvey.org) and the Executive Time Use Study (www.executivetimeuse.org). Professor Sadun's work has appeared in leading peer reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Political Economy, and has been featured in the business press, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, the Center for Economic Policy Research and Ariadne Labs. In 2012 Professor Sadun was nominated as a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation. She was the winner of the McKinsey Award for the best article in the Harvard Business Review in 2018.
Professor Sadun completed her PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. Prior to her doctoral studies, Professor Sadun earned a M.Sc. in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
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A survey of 50 companies across countries and industries reveals business leaders are hard at work adapting to the COVID threat. Research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues.Winner of 59th Annual HBR McKinsey AwardA podcast from Freakonomics
How can we improve care for hospital patients? The key issue we need to figure out, says Professor Raffaella Sadun, is how to bring physicians and administrators together to work as a team and not as antagonists. Sadun studies management practices and how they affect organizational performance.
An Interview with Raffaella Sadun on how two traditionally connected technologies may appear to pull organizations in opposing directions, published on MIT Sloan Management Review (website), (April 5, 2016).Practical Innovations in Health Care DeliveryTwo new papers investigate the role of basic managerial processes across secondary schools and acute care hospitals in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Does Management Matter in Schools? (with Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen). Economic Journal, 125 (May 2015): 647-674.
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in 8 countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, then Italy, Brazil and with India on the lowest scores. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with substantial independence like UK academies and US charters) have significantly higher management scores than regular government schools and private schools. Almost half of the difference between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in better governance (accountability) and leadership of the principal/head.
Does Management Matter in Healthcare? (with Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen)
We collect data on management practices for operations, targets and human resources in 2,000 hospitals in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Sweden, UK and the US. These management practices are strongly associated with better clinical outcomes, such as heart attack survival rates, and financial outcomes like profits. We show that hospitals with more clinically trained managers, that are larger, that operate in more competitive markets, and that are not government owned appear to have significantly higher management scores. The US and UK have the highest average management scores, which we think may be due to relatively politically independent appointment of hospital leaders and stronger accountability mechanisms.Evidence From the Time Use of CEOsCEOs are often cited as a key factor in determining the success of a firm. However, direct evidence on the behavior of corporate leaders is scant. To fill this gap, we record in detail the activities undertaken by 354 CEOs of listed Indian manufacturing firms over an exogenously chosen work week. We observe substantial heterogeneity in total hours worked ("labor supply") and the allocation of time across activities ("style"). In particular, CEOs can be divided in two groups. The CEOs in the first group (Style 1) are more likely to plan in advance, interact mostly with employees of the firms who are their direct reports, especially in production, and are more likely to meet with many people, and different functions, at the same time. The second group of CEOs (Style 2) is less likely to plan, more likely to meet with outsiders in one-to-one meetings. CEOs who work longer hours and that fall in the Style 1 category are associated with higher firm-level productivity and profitability. CEO labor supply and style are strongly associated with firm level characteristics. In particular, family CEOs work fewer hours and are less likely to adopt the more productive style. To investigate the source of these differences between family and non-family CEOs, we study the effect of two sources of shocks to the disutility of work: extreme weather and televised cricket matches. Controlling for other factors, family CEOs are more likely to decrease their labor supply in response to these shocks.Harvard Business ReviewAre organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net much wider than that. In a decade long study of thousands of organizations in 20 countries, they and their interview team assessed how well manufacturers, schools, and hospitals adhere to three management basics: targets, incentives, and monitoring.
HBR Blog NetworkAre you among the 79%? In our research into more than 8,000 companies in 20 countries, 79% of organizations reported that their management practices were above average.
HBR Blog NetworkREPORTHealthcare expenditure represents a major challenge for all countries, absorbing an increasing percentage of national income. Nations are grappling with increases in demand for healthcare as their populations age and expectations rise along with living standards. At the same time, industrialised countries face budgetary shortfalls. As these nations seek to control healthcare costs, an unbalanced focus on “cost” can carry unacceptable consequences; therefore health systems across the developed world are focusing on enhancing quality and productivity. Implementing systemic change is daunting, but the results from this latest Management Matters in Healthcare research provide an optimistic message: improving management practices is a way to raise both quality and productivity. Thus, instilling better management practices could be a key part of addressing difficult challenges.
HBS WORKING KNOWLEDGEWhat determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses.
HBR BLOG - THE CONVERSATIONSince Coco Chanel unveiled her iconic black dress in Paris in 1926, that little black dress has become a clothing essential in every woman's wardrobe...In a similar vein I have been working with an international research team for the last decade to discover the essentials of management. This team — from the Harvard Business School, Cambridge University, the London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company, and Stanford University — has surveyed over 10,000 firms in over 20 countries, interviewed hundreds of CEOs, and even run multimillion dollar management field experiments in an unparalleled research effort to reveal some basic practices that every manager should follow.
A survey of 50 companies across countries and industries reveals business leaders are hard at work adapting to the COVID threat. Research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues.A survey of 50 companies across countries and industries reveals business leaders are hard at work adapting to the COVID threat. Research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues. - Journal Articles
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- Impink, Stephen Michael, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "Measuring Collaboration in Modern Organizations." AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (May 2020): 181–186. View Details
- Aghion, Philippe, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 13, no. 1 (January 2021): 133–169. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van Reenen. "Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare." Review of Economics and Statistics 102, no. 3 (July 2020): 506–517. View Details
- Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "CEO Behavior and Firm Performance." Journal of Political Economy 128, no. 4 (April 2020): 1325–1369. View Details
- Bandiera, Oriana, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work." Review of Financial Studies 31, no. 5 (May 2018): 1605–1653. (Lead article.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, Nicholas Bloom, and John Van Reenen. "Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management? Neither Great Leadership Nor Brilliant Strategy Matters Without Operational Excellence." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 5 (September–October 2017): 120–127. (Winner of 59th Annual HBR McKinsey Award.) View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen. "International Data on Measuring Management Practices." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 152–156. View Details
- Tsai, Thomas C., Ashish K. Jha, Atul A. Gawande, Robert S. Huckman, Nicholas Bloom, and Raffaella Sadun. "Hospital Board and Management Practices Are Strongly Related to Hospital Performance on Clinical Quality Metrics." Health Affairs 34, no. 8 (August 2015): 1304–1311. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Do Private Equity Firms Have Better Management Practices?" American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 442–446. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Management Matter in Schools?" Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) 125, no. 584 (May 2015): 647–674. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen. "The New Empirical Economics of Management." Journal of the European Economic Association 12, no. 4 (August 2014): 835–876. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers?" Review of Economics and Statistics 97, no. 5 (December 2015): 983–1001. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization." Management Science 60, no. 12 (December 2014): 2859–2885. View Details
- Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives." Journal of Labor Economics 33, no. 3 (July 2015): 623–681. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "The Organization of Firms Across Countries." Quarterly Journal of Economics 127, no. 4 (November 2012). (Slides from 2008, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-005, August 2011.) View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Management Really Work?" Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012). View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Americans Do IT Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle." American Economic Review 102, no. 1 (February 2012): 167–201. (Slides; Summary; The Economist; Financial Times; New York Times.) View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management Practices across Firms and Countries." Academy of Management Perspectives 26, no. 1 (February 2012): 12–33. View Details
- Haskel, Jonathan, and Raffaella Sadun. "Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata." Economica 79, no. 315 (July 2012): 425–448. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin, and Raffaella Sadun. "Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?" Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) 120, no. 544 (May 2010): 551–572. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize?" American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010): 434–438. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics." Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 105–137. View Details
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- DeFilippis, Evan, Stephen Michael Impink, Madison Singell, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Raffaella Sadun. "Collaborating During Coronavirus: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-006, July 2020. View Details
- Yang, Mu-Jeung, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and Jan Rivkin. "How Do CEOs Make Strategy?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-063, October 2020. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management as a Technology?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-133, June 2016. (Revised October 2017.) View Details
- Alfaro, Laura, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-051, December 2017. (Revised October 2020.) View Details
- Janke, Katharina, Carol Propper, and Raffaella Sadun. "The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-075, March 2018. (Revised September 2020.) View Details
- Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "What Do CEOs Do?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-081, February 2011. (Media: The Economist, May 5th 2011.) View Details
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- Bennett, Victor Manuel, Megan Lawrence, and Raffaella Sadun. "Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?" Chap. 4 in Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges. Vol. 75, edited by John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar, 153–185. Studies in Income and Wealth (NBER). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. View Details
- Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Do Private Equity-owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?" Chap. 1 in The Global Economic Impact of Private Equity Report 2009, edited by Josh Lerner and Anuradha Gurung, 1–23. Globalization of Alternative Investments Working Papers. Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, 2009. (Slides.) View Details
- Haskel, Jonathan, and Raffaella Sadun. "Entry, Exit and Labour Productivity in U.K. Retailing: Evidence from Micro Data." Chap. 7 in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, edited by Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark J. Roberts. University of Chicago Press, 2009. (Working Paper version.) View Details
- Draca, Mirko, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Productivity and ICTs: A Review of the Evidence." Chap. 5 in The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, edited by Robin Mansell, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Danny Quah, and Roger Silverstone, 100–147. Oxford University Press, 2007. (August 2006 version available at IDEAS.) View Details
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- Bohmer, Richard M.J., Gary P. Pisano, Raffaella Sadun, and Thomas C. Tsai. "How Hospitals Can Manage Supply Chain Shortages as Demand Surges." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 3, 2020). View Details
- Khanna, Tarun, Raffaella Sadun, and Susie L. Ma. "Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy." Harvard Business School Case 720-356, September 2019. (Revised August 2020.) View Details
- Nanda, Ramana, Raffaella Sadun, and Olivia Hull. "Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance." Harvard Business School Case 719-403, October 2018. View Details
- Gallani, Susanna, Francesca Gino, and Raffaella Sadun. "Cooking Down a Storm: Changing Culture at Pasta Serafina (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-013, September 2019. View Details
- Gallani, Susanna, Francesca Gino, and Raffaella Sadun. "Cooking Down a Storm: Changing Culture at Pasta Serafina (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 120-014, September 2019. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, and Greta Friar. "Videojet (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-410, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Irene Rosenfeld at Mondelez International: Crafting a Corporate Strategy video supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 718-803, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Corporate Strategy: Scope." Harvard Business School Module Note 718-461, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Corporate Strategy: Resources." Harvard Business School Module Note 718-460, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Corporate Strategy: Course Introduction 2018." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 718-459, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Irene Rosenfeld at Mondelēz International: Crafting a Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-492, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-407, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-493, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, and Greta Friar. "Weathering the Storm at NYU Langone Medical Center." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-506, March 2018. (Revised March 2018.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, and Greta Friar. "VMware and the Public Cloud (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-412, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, and Greta Friar. "CyberArk: Protecting the Keys to the IT Kingdom." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-490, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, and Greta Friar. "Alere." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 718-411, March 2018. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, David J. Collis, Amram Migdal, and Kerry Herman. "Irene Rosenfeld at Mondelēz International: Crafting a Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 718-403, November 2017. (Revised August 2018.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, David Yoffie, and Margot Eiran. "CyberArk: Protecting the Keys to the IT Kingdom." Harvard Business School Case 718-418, September 2017. (Revised July 2018.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, Michael Beer, and James Weber. "Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-504, July 2017. (Revised October 2017.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, Michael Beer, and James Weber. "Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)." Harvard Business School Case 717-419, June 2017. (Revised October 2017.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, and Christine Snively. "VMware and the Public Cloud (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-515, May 2017. (Revised February 2018.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, and Christine Snively. "VMware and the Public Cloud." Harvard Business School Case 717-480, March 2017. (Revised February 2018.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Where Should Pat Gelsinger's Time Go?" Harvard Business School Supplement 717-802, January 2017. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Where Should Pat Gelsinger's Time Go?" Harvard Business School Case 717-408, January 2017. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, Catherine Slater, and Channing Spencer. "Alere." Harvard Business School Case 717-402, August 2016. (Revised July 2019.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, Bharat Anand, and Eric Van den Steen. "Videojet (A)." Harvard Business School Case 717-403, August 2016. (Revised March 2018.) View Details
- Alcacer, Juan, Raffaella Sadun, Olivia Hull, and Kerry Herman. "Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers." Harvard Business School Case 717-418, July 2016. (Revised February 2018.) View Details
- Raffaelli, Ryan, Raffaella Sadun, and Kathy Qu. "Moleskine (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 716-464, May 2016. (Revised November 2018.) View Details
- Raffaelli, Ryan, Raffaella Sadun, and Kathy Qu. "Moleskine (A)." Harvard Business School Case 716-407, April 2016. (Revised March 2019.) View Details
- Huckman, Robert S., Raffaella Sadun, and Michael Norris. "Weathering the Storm at NYU Langone Medical Center." Harvard Business School Case 616-026, February 2016. (Revised February 2018.) View Details
- Collis, David, Raffaella Sadun, and Matthew Shaffer. "The Transformation of NCR." Harvard Business School Case 715-438, April 2015. (Revised June 2016.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 714-493, March 2014. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Henry Schein: Doing Well by Doing Good?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 714-492, March 2014. View Details
- Henderson, Rebecca, Raffaella Sadun, Aldo Sesia, and Russell Eisenstat. "Henry Schein: Doing Well by Doing Good?" Harvard Business School Case 714-450, January 2014. (Revised January 2014.) View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, Hanoch Feit, Vaibhav Gujral, and Gerard Zouein. "Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-451, March 2014. View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, Hanoch Feit, Vaibhav Gujral, and Gerard Zouein. "Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 714-452, March 2014. View Details
- Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Raffaella Sadun, and Richard G. Hamermesh. "Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey - Managing in the Shadow of Health Care Reform." Harvard Business School Case 711-403, March 2011. (Revised March 2011.) View Details
- Other Publications and Materials
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- Pisano, Gary P., Raffaella Sadun, and Michele Zanini. "Lessons from Italy's Response to Coronavirus." HO5ITU. Harvard Business Review (website) (March 27, 2020). View Details
- Bandiera, Oriana, Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Prat, and Stephen Hansen. "A Survey of How 1,000 CEOs Spend Their Day Reveals What Makes Leaders Successful." H03Y2R. Harvard Business Review (website) (October 12, 2017). View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Google's Secret Formula for Management? Doing the Basics Well." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 24, 2017). View Details
- Teti, Kimberly, Mu-Jeung Yang, Nicholas Bloom, Jan Rivkin, and Raffaella Sadun. "The Different Approaches Firms Use to Set Strategy." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 10, 2017). View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella, and Frieda Klotz. An Interview with Raffaella Sadun: "Information" vs. "Communication:" The Battle to Influence Decision Making. Art. 57407. MIT Sloan Management Review (website) (April 5, 2016). View Details
- Sadun, Raffaella. "Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs." Working Paper, 2013. View Details
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In Summer 2009 Professor Sadun has worked with a team of 30 MBAs and postgraduates to collect a large cross-country survey of management practices in high-schools and general hospitals across the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. Over the course of the Summer, more than 1,900 organizations have been interviewed, and their responses are currently being analyzed. The first report was launched in October 2010 and can be downloaded here. More details on the project can be found here.
Together with academics from HBS and LSE, Professor Sadun in currently involved in a project that seeks to understand how CEOs in Europe and the United States allocate their time between internal and external matters and how their use of time influences corporate performance. Findings from data on 120 top Italian CEOs shows a positive correlation between specific time allocations and firm performance. Data in China, India and the US is currently being collected. More details on the project can be found here.
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Winner of the first-place HBR McKinsey Award for the Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 2017 for "Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?” with Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen.Named Harvard Business School Richard Hodgson Fellow in 2013.Named a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research in 2013.Recipient of a 2012 Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research.Named a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2010.Named a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009.
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