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The Observer:
Why are so many UK businesses just barely managing to get by?

8 December 2018

John Van Reenen argues that competent managers are desperately undervalued in the UK. The MIT economics professor, who until recently headed the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, concedes that most studies that compare the skills and training of modern managers from one country with another can be difficult to decipher. But one thing is sure, he says: "There is a bigger fraction of atrociously managed firms in the UK than the US."
Read more at the Harvard Business Review: "Does management really work?", Nicholas Bloom, Raffaellla Sadun and John Van Reenen, November 2012

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