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      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations

      By: Miguel Espinosa and Christopher T. Stanton
      We study direct productivity changes and spillovers after a randomized training program for the frontline workers in a Colombian government agency. While trained workers improved their individual production, we also find substantial spillovers that affected managers'...  View Details
      Keywords: Spillovers; Labor Productivity; Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Training; Performance Productivity
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      Espinosa, Miguel, and Christopher T. Stanton. "Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30224, July 2022.
      • Summer 2021
      • Article

      The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward

      By: Daniela Scur, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos and Nicholas Bloom
      Understanding how differences in management ‘best practices’ affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics, and public policy. The World Management Survey (WMS) project was born...  View Details
      Keywords: Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Business Economics; Choice Of Technology; Management Of Technological Innovation And R&D; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Management Practices and Processes
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      Scur, Daniela, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos, and Nicholas Bloom. "The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 37, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 231–258.
      • November 2012
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      The Organization of Firms Across Countries

      By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
      We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local...  View Details
      Keywords: Decentralization; Social Capital; Theory Of The Firm; Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Business Economics; Management Of Technological Innovation And R&D; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Diffusion Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Technology Adoption; Multinational Firms and Management
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      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.)
      • 2009
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      Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work

      By: Tsedal Beyene, Pamela J. Hinds and Catherine Durnell Cramton
      In an ethnographic study comprised of interviews and concurrent observations of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both native and...  View Details
      Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Globalized Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks
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      Beyene, Tsedal, Pamela J. Hinds, and Catherine Durnell Cramton. "Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-138, June 2009.
      • July 2003 (Revised September 2003)
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      Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (A), The

      By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
      The CFO of General Motors' joint venture in Shanghai, Shanghai General Motors (SGM), wants to refinance almost $900 million of project finance it raised to begin operations. The highest priority is improving the terms of the financing with regard to costs and specific...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Joint Ventures; Financing and Loans; Auto Industry; Shanghai
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      Desai, Mihir A., and Mark Veblen. "Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 204-031, July 2003. (Revised September 2003.)
      • July 2003 (Revised September 2003)
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      Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (B), The

      By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
      This case provides the outcome to "The Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (A)" in which the CFO of General Motors' joint venture in Shanghai, Shanghai General Motors (SGM), wants to refinance almost $900 million of project finance it raised to begin operations. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Joint Ventures; Financing and Loans; Auto Industry; Shanghai
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      Desai, Mihir A., and Mark Veblen. "Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (B), The." Harvard Business School Case 204-025, July 2003. (Revised September 2003.)
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      Public Policy and Markets

      By: Willis M. Emmons
      William (Willis) M. Emmons III is investigating the interaction of public policy, markets, business strategy, and performance at the levels of firm, industry, and society. Emmons' approach draws heavily on economic theories of industrial organization, market failure,...  View Details
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