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I am living in two alternative universes... Italy fully under quarantine, and still hearing the “just a flu/keep going as normal” comments here in the States. It’s like seeing a Tsunami coming from afar and not doing anything about it.
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Grazie, sono davvero onorata di questo bellissimo riconoscimento.
Congratulations to Prof. Raffaella Sadun (
@raffasadun
) for the award of Grande Ufficiale of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana 🇮🇹, for her dedication and exceptional contribution during the current pandemic.
@Italyinus
@ItalyMFA
#onorificenza
@HarvardHBS
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Mmm, maybe not?
Draghi keynote speaker at the NBER summer institute, AWESOME!!!
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I am discovering that sending kids to sleep away camp gives me back a lot of free time, which I spend almost entirely looking for their pictures on the camp website (rest goes to twitter).
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What type of skills are requested in C-suite positions? We explore this question in a new paper linked below. Quick answer: social skills—e.g. being able to truly understand and empathize, persuade others—are increasingly in high demand.
Novel data show an increasing relevance of social skills in top managerial occupations and a greater emphasis on social skills in larger and more information-intensive organizations, from Stephen Hansen, Tejas Ramdas,
@raffasadun
, and Joe Fuller
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Just got an email from a junior manager based in India who used the data and research behind the WMS to improve management practices in his plant. He thanked me, I am not sure he realizes that he has totally made my day.
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Great seeing this happening! This was my proposal to the Italian government too about a year ago, hopefully this provides a useful template.
A group of British business schools is about to start a bold experiment: teaching management and leadership courses to SMEs in the hope of improving the UK’s poor productivity record.
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This was hands down one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended, strongly recommend catching the youtube recordings. Day 1 linked here:
Tune in today, June 12 5pm CET for the final day of the symposium on Economics of Creative Destruction.
Today’s agenda:
1- finance & firm dynamics
2- org of innovation
3- science & innovation
4- innovation & growth policy
Followed by Pres
@EmmanuelMacron
’s address & conclusion.
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Strategy/Econ folks: here is a new working paper that may be of interest (with Yang, Christensen, Bloom and Rivkin).
We provide new evidence on a key CEO activity-- strategic decision making.
Some key findings:
1/n
A survey of how CEOs make strategic decisions, and how different approaches to decision- making map into differences in firm size and growth, from Mu-Jeung Yang, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom,
@raffasadun
, and Jan Rivkin
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@ProfLopalco
Salve Prof Lopalco, mi dispace molto che lo abbia trovato irritante. L'intento e' costruttivo. Qui puo' trovare una mia intervista a radio uno che spero aiuti a contestualizzare l'articolo (inizia a 1.10).
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🚨COME WORK WITH US! 🚨We have positions to help us build a new dataset on management in scientific labs. Part-time, fully remote for fall 2023. APPLY HERE:
Cc
@danielascur
@heidilwilliams_
@pierre_azoulay
@johnvanreenen
@econ_ra
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The next
@nberpubs
Organizational Economics Working Group meeting will take place in Cambridge on November 16 and 17th 2023. Please submit your papers & retweet!
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The
@economicsfest
in Trento was a unique event in which economics research of all kind could be presented and discussed with the broader public. This will all change due to an insane political retaliation against
@Tboeri
. A scary sign of the regime change happening in Italy.
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And the worst part is the feeling that so few really understand what this means, care about it and/or try to take action to reverse this abysmal record--it drives me nuts.
Italy’s 🇮🇹 dismal multi-decade economic performance 📉
Cc:
@zingales
@Noahpinion
@RanaForoohar
@sullydish
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Draghi keynote speaker at the NBER summer institute, AWESOME!!!
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Loved
#RoseIsland
, best movie I’ve watched this week (and we binged quite a bit...).
ROSE ISLAND is the true story of an Italian engineer who created a man-made island in the middle of the sea. Let’s take a look back at the real story behind the historic event the new Sydney Sibilia film is based on. (thread)
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨Stiamo cercando un Hub Director e due Research Associates per l'Evaluation Lab del Fondo Repubblica Digitale (). Ottima opportunità per persone interessate a lavorare in policy evaluation in Italia (inclusi pre-docs) cc
@econ_ra
, pls retweet!
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I wrote a short piece on the
#covid
-19 crisis in Italy with
@motogp61
and
@MicheleZanini
. We hope it can help understand what happened in Italy and what is at risk here. Thanks
@Atul_Gawande
for the shoutout.
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@lucianocapone
@VeroDeRomanis
Promuovere l'idea che la produttività sia nemica dei lavoratori significa bloccare nuove possibilità di crescita per tutto il paese (non solo per le imprese). Partito del cambiamento dei miei stivali.
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I am delighted to share the release of new data on management in hospitals collected in partnership with the
@uscensusbureau
. This marks a 6+ years collaborative effort generously funded by
@HarvardHBS
, and seed-funded by
@AriadneLabs
.
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How did the shift to WFH change what managers do with their time? In new work with
@TTeodorovicz
,
@oshaer
,
@andrewkun
we find that pretty much all the time saved from no commuting now goes into... more meetings!
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Economist living in Boston (sad but true)
What would your occupation be if you had followed your childhood dreams?
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New WP out today on the effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on collaboration using data on emails and meetings for 3mn+ users. We work longer hours, but in a different way: shorter meetings with more attendees, but overall meeting time down by 11%. 1/n
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Consiglio vivamente il podcast di
@monacelt
, analisi molto lucida della situazione economica italiana e di quello che dovrebbe succedere per far ripartire la crescita.
E29
DEF = Draghi E Futuro o Fallimento?
Il DEF del governo Draghi.
Alcune cose non ci convincono, come l'esplosione del deficit e del suo rapido rientro.
Porterà ad uno sviluppo e al futuro o al fallimento del paese?
Ne parliamo con
@monacelt
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Thanks so much
@HarvardHBS
& Shona Simkin for this short interview about my experience at HBS over the past few years.
Check out the first installment of our new series "Behind the Research" where we get to know the faces behind our research. First, we spoke to Professor
@raffasadun
about being knighted by the president of Italy, her awards, research, and
#LifeAtHBS
:
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"Lo stato non si metta a scimmiottare le startup e, invece di imporre pericolosi e inefficienti monopoli tecnologici, adotti princìpi di disegno dei servizi digitali basati sui criteri indicati dalla Commissione europea: aperti, interoperabili, competitivi e trasparenti."
Non è solo un fallimento tecnologico. È prima di tutto il default del modello grillino di monopolio statale sui dati dei cittadini e di negazione del ruolo del mercato e dei corpi intermedi. Per fortuna sono incapaci. E invece del Grande Fratello, hanno fatto un Grande Cuggino.
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A huge thanks to all the kind souls who retweeted or liked the tweet. I found the scarf!
I lost a beloved scarf today on
@HarvardHBS
campus (it belonged to my mum). It’s a very thin white wool, with dark gray/black polka dots. I am desperate enough to hope this tweet can help me find it!
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There are no absolute best practices in org structure, take 10000001. The trade-offs presented by decentralized structures are well known, yet they are constantly forgotten in practice.
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Se vi interessa capire cosa sta succedendo nel mondo dei semiconduttori (e quindi nel mondo), consiglio vivamente questo nuovo libro di
@alearesu
.
Perché da qualche tempo sentiamo parlare così tanto di semiconduttori, litio e cobalto? Come è avvenuta l'ascesa cinese nelle supply chain tecnologiche? Come nascono le sanzioni degli Stati Uniti e perché sono così importanti? Ne parliamo dal 31 ottobre in libreria
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So happy to see this paper coming out on AEJ: Applied Economics.
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Turbulence, Firm Decentralization, and Growth in Bad Times" by Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen.
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The program for the next Organizational Economics Working Group is up. The meeting takes place on Nov 16 and 17 2023, sessions will be live streamed on YouTube. On 11/16 at 5.15pm we will have a special session in honor of Heikki Rantakari.
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The strategy unit
@HarvardHBS
is looking for 1-2 full time pre-doc RAs to join our group for 1-2 years. Based in Boston, you will work on a variety of applied econ/strategy projects (including management, CEOs, RCTs, innovation, IO). Please apply/retweet!
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This year I am co-organizing the (virtual) "Macroeconomics and Productivity" workshop at the
@nberpubs
summer institute with the great Basu,
@I_Am_NickBloom
and Syverson on July 20. This is a great, broad and welcoming group, please apply!
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Da leggere
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🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 I am pleased to announce that the next Empirical Management Conference will take place at HBS on December 13-14 2018. Please submit your paper by August 1st 2018 (see instructions below or check out the conference website ). Pls retweet!
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🚨Conference alert!!!🚨Folks, time to submit your management/org paper to the annual Empirical Management Conference, which this year will take place on Dec 14 and 15 2022 at the World Bank.
Call for papers:
Submission page:
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I typically feel pretty lucky to be at
@HarvardHBS
, but today even more than usual, learning about the exciting work that my colleagues are doing in our internal research symposium. Lovely to see novel, rigorous and impactful management research being done here.
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This is insane - where are we going to write the referee reports now????
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Here is the link to a cool
@Freakonomics
podcast summing up a lot of my recent research with my amazing coauthors
@orianabandiera
, Nick Bloom,
@andreapratnyc
and
@johnvanreenen
.
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🚨🚨PRE-DOC JOB ALERT🚨🚨
The strategy unit at HBS has opened 2-3 pre-doc positions . Great role if you are interested in gaining practical experience in applied econ/strategy research. cc
@orgrem
@andywu
@frank_nagle
@econ_ra
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Just awesome. "Meet the 29-year-old woman behind the first image of a black hole"
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Bureaucracy is literally killing Europe.
Last summer, the U.S. was struggling more than any other country to contain Covid. Today, the E.U. is in considerably worse shape.
The U.S. mismanaged the early and middle stages of the pandemic. The E.U. is bungling the endgame.
🧵
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Can anyone explain this to me, please? It reads as if EU wants to regulate what it doesn’t fully understand. Sounds naive at best, a witch hunt at worst. What am I missing?
Not The Onion:
“EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation”
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🚨🚨🚨 CONFERENCE ALERT🚨🚨🚨
The Empirical Management Conference is ON! Dec 9 and 10 2020, submissions deadline October 15th. Please retweet!
The Call for Papers for the 2020 Empirical Management Conference is out!
Submit your papers here:
Hosted "at"
@CornellDyson
this year, all virtual for two days: Dec 9 and 10, 11am-2pm EST. Mark your calendars!
Full info here:
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Great
@Freakonomics
podcast with Indra Nooyi (CEO of Pepsi). Lots to learn about strategy, management and, obviously, being a CEO.
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Are Markups Increasing? Not if you take SG&A into account. Interesting finding--consistent with increasing role of intangible capital (including management & marketing investments) for US public firms. via
@Shareaholic
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The
@nberpubs
Organizational Economics Working group will meet in Cambridge on April 20/21st 2023. Please upload your paper here: by 11.59Pm ET on February 13th (3 weeks from now!). Please apply/retweet.
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I lost a beloved scarf today on
@HarvardHBS
campus (it belonged to my mum). It’s a very thin white wool, with dark gray/black polka dots. I am desperate enough to hope this tweet can help me find it!
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Lucida analisi di Cassese, che propone di fare leva sui "conoscitori della macchina amministrativa" per superare resistenze interne al cambiamento (invece di competenze manageriali esterne).
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I loved this sentence: “The tenure clock is short. The time it takes to fully develop a novel idea is long. The time it takes to convince others is even longer. Don’t be in a hurry. You are running a marathon. Listen to critiques. Persevere.” So true.
My memories are very similar to John's (except for the champagne, as I obtained my final signature remotely). Great advice.
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Allow me a moment of pride. Harvard commencement 2018 with my fabulous HBS colleagues. Ps: 3 of us are Italian (but with real CVs!).
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What happens to communication flows within firms when the CEO changes? Using novel longitudinal email and meeting data on a sample of 102 firms, we (myself,
@andreapratnyc
and
@smimpink
) find the following:
A new CEO initially decreases the amount of communication within a firm – followed by a sig increase in communications between managers and staff around four months later.
By Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat and
@raffasadun
(
@HarvardHBS
)
Read:
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@AlfonsoFuggetta
Concordo pienamente. Altro vizio e' quello di ignorare l'importanza degli input intangibili e complementari che spesso sono alla base del loro successo--ovvero, viene tutto ridotto a risorse materiali quando invece sono management e organizzazione che fanno la differenza.
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The Reskilling Lab at
@HarvardHBS
is hiring a postdoc. Very exciting work studying training (and in particular reskilling programs), using surveys, admin data and experiments. Come and work with me and the brilliant Jorge Tamayo!
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Shane Greenstein (HBS) provides a really interesting account of the origin of Internet (spoiler alert: the role of the State is way more complex than what is usually advertised)
@carloalberto
@AlfonsoFuggetta
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We are setting up a "Digital Reskilling Lab"
@HarvardHBS
to study and experiment with retraining initiatives aimed at equipping “at risk” workers with the skills needed to thrive in the digital economy. Hiring now!
@econ_ra
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Fascinating reading, there is ample material for org econ/innovation crowd: role of decentralization, culture, digitizing R&D, intrinsic motivation, WFH, turnarounds...
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Agreed 100%. Incentives are part of a broader set of complementary management tools (systems), not a silver bullet. Also important to realize what can be incentivized and how (e.g. individual incentives usually not appropriate if production is based on teamwork).
@ashishkjha
@bmj_latest
@joefigs2
@IgnaBonfrer
My view of the data: training and incentives are necessary for better health care delivery but woefully insufficient. Crucial additions: creating systems that make better care simpler and discovering how to enable their adoption widely.
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Very grateful to the
@NSF
for supporting a new project on the
#futureofwork
. Looking forward to working with my awesome colleagues
@oshaer
,
@andrewkun
,
@LindaNgBoyle
and John Lee.
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I had SO much fun talking with
@pqblair
and
@ProfDavidDeming
today about the future of work and its intersection with education, thanks so much
@hgse
for hosting us, and to Peter for an excellent moderation.
.
@raffasadun
on education during the pandemic:
+ expanded audience, e.g. more women in some courses
- inequality is a grave concerns, with parts of the population excluded
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Concordo. Mi stupisce molto che si parli cosi' poco di un tema cosi' importante e complesso.
Come mai la produttività multifattoriale ITA da 20 è disastrosamente negativa mentre l'andamento di quella per ora lavorata non lo è altrettanto? Questa domanda dovrebbe essere al centro di tutto, per ripresa e PNRR
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This type of behavioral frictions (things cannot be improved, so why bother?) are WAY more common than one would expect... super interesting to hear about this in the context of the Amazon/Whole Foods acquisition.
After acquiring
@WholeFoods
,
@Amazon
taught the grocery chain to collect data on shrink (eg. spoilage, shoplifting). "That seems kind of obvious, doesn’t it? But we didn’t do that [before]. We just figured it’s a cost of doing business." — CEO John Mackey.
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L'Evaluation Lab del Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale e' un piccolo gioiello nel panorama della valutazione delle politiche economiche in Italia. Il compito del Lab e' quello di valutare l'efficacia dei diversi investimenti in training digitale finanziati grazie ai fondi del PNRR
Giornata di lavoro per i research associates dell’Evaluation Lab nella sede di Roma del Fondo Repubblica Digitale. Oggi ospite speciale Luigi Guiso, grazie per i feedback e la presentazione!
Cc
@g_de_simone
@raffasadun
@BarbaraBiasi
@Floridi
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Bezos on strategic decision making
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🥳🥳🥳😏
What do CEOs do all day? and does it matter? Now out in print
@raffasadun
@andreapratnyc
#stephenhansen
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The program of the next NBER Organizational Economics Working Group meeting is up!
Sessions will be live streamed on Youtube.
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Grazie
@lucianocapone
&
@bad_scientists
. Ottimo articolo per capire lo sforzo organizzativo enorme necessario (che non stiamo facendo) per una distribuzione del vaccino rapida ed efficiente.
"Chi dalle conferenze stampa afferma che non siamo impreparati e in ritardo non ha gli occhi onesti e la mente libera, oppure non conosce il livello di preparazione e programmazione necessari per distribuire il vaccino anti Covid".
Con
@bad_scientists
. 👇
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🚨PREDOC JOB ALERT!🚨
I am looking to hire a pre-doctoral student interested in supporting projects in the field of empirical management/org economics research.
Please find link to the position below
cc:
@econ_ra
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Brief (and manager friendly) summary of my new CEO paper with
@orianabandiera
, Stephen Hansen and
@andreapratnyc
:
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Very interesting paper. Firm level data matching patents to actual products.
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Yay, my copy has arrived!!! Can’t wait to go through this book!
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Complimenti a
@gloquenzi
& team, servizio interessantissimo sulla campagna vaccinale attuata in Israele.
Questa sera a
@ZappingRadio1
@Radio1Rai
parliamo con Arnon Shahar il capo della task force del piano vaccinale israeliano. 30 % popolazione vaccinata, 12,5 con seconda dose (Italia 2,11/0,15)
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Thanks
@thinkers50
for including me in the annual
#Thinkers50Radar
Class of 2023!
Excited to announce our annual
#Thinkers50Radar
Class of 30 up-and-coming thinkers to watch! It is a diverse and eclectic mix of what we believe are the top newcomers in business and management thinking.
Meet the new Radar Thinkers via
@Deloitte
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Concordo pienamente. Evidenza:
Il nostro sistema scolastico non manca di personale, né di leggi: manca di gestione. Le assunzioni ipotetiche e le classi pollaio che non ci sono - di
@FLuccisano
e
@marcocampione
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Agree 100% with my colleague
@robert_huckman
--management skills among clinical staff are more needed than ever, yet managerial training programs are still relatively rare. We should be able to understand what training programs work, and expand access.
#COVID
has more than underscored the importance of good management and leadership. In
@AcadMedJournal
,
@robert_huckman
,
@LisaRotenstein
, & Chris Cassel of
@UCSFMedicine
, explore how now, more than ever, doctors must excel as managers & leaders.
@HarvardHBS
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Early stage VC drops by 38% in the first 2 months of the Covid-19 crisis.
Late-stage VC activity did not change dramatically in the first two months after the COVID-19 pandemic reached the US, but early-stage VC activity declined by 38%, from Sabrina T. Howell, Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda, and Richard R. Townsend
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Long article but worth reading as it shows 3 key points:
1. Lots of key knowledge to fight
#covid19
still not codified
2. Knowledge diffusion not frictionless (importance of informal networks)
3. Hospital had to learn on the spot
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Conference Galore! Here is another call for papers, this time for the Empirical Management Conference, which will take place in Stanford December 13th-15th 2023.
Here is also another plug for the NBER Organizational Working Group Conference, Nov 16/17
Call for papers - Empirical Management Conference - in Stanford Dec noon 13th to noon Dec 15th. Please submit empirical research papers on management practices. Organized with Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen.
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Un aspetto spesso dimenticato del Piano Marshall e' il programma di technology transfer implementato in Italia, studiato da
@M_Giorcelli
nel suo bellissimo paper
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"Randomizing Religion". Religious classes (Protestant Christian) causally associated with increased income among ultra poor Filipino household. Possible channel: increase in grit.
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Sono d'accordo (e lo ripeto dalla primavera scorsa), perche' non provare a sviluppare partnership pubblico-privato? Sono servizi complementari, e in questo momento di grande emergenza si potrebbero esplorare nuove modalità organizzative, utili anche nel lungo periodo.
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“Workers value workplace dignity at approximately six percent of their current wage, making it comparable to amenities like commute time and more valuable than widely discussed amenities like control over one’s schedule.”
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Contributo molto interessante e pragmatico di
@maudelconte
sulle riforme necessarie per le politiche attive del lavoro. Parlare di upskilling e reskilling senza pensare agli aspetti organizzativi e di implementazione non aiuta nessuno.
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Strongly recommend this podcast on vaccines and other aspects of the Covid crisis
@a16z
with
@rvenkayya
.
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Huge thanks to all the participants of the 6th edition of the Empirical Management Conference (). A great line up of rigorous and policy relevant projects by junior and senior people, US and international, men and women. Amazing to see this community grow.
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Ho da poco scoperto
@JohannesBuckler
. Threads molto interessanti per capire la storia (economica e non) dell'Italia. Highly recommended.
In principio erano l’Iri e l’Eni. Poi un bel giorno qualcuno pensò bene di riunire le attività manufatturiere delle Partecipazioni Statali. E così nacque l’Efim (”Ente autonomo di gestione per le partecipazioni del Fondo di finanziamento dell'industria meccanica)
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