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The age of the never-ending performance review

22 August 2016

For the past decade, Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and a rotating crew of co-authors (most consistently MIT's John Van Reenen) have been documenting that the management best practices developed at high-performing companies and consulting firms and taught at business schools really do make companies more productive and profitable - and that HR practices that effectively identify and reward the most-productive workers are a big part of what separates successful companies from the rest.

This article was published by Bloomberg View on August 22, 2016
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Related publications
Management Practices Across Firms and Countries, Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1109, December 2011
Management Practices: the impact on company performance, Nicholas Bloom, Stephen Dorgan, John Dowdy, Tom Rippin and John Van Reenen. Article in CentrePiece Volume 10, Issue 2, Summer 2005

Related links
Nicholas Bloom webpage
Christos Genakos webpage
Raffaella Sadun webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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