Skip to main content
A new Economics of Education Research Centre (EERC) to develop a robust evidence base for education and skills policymaking, is being established by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), UCL’s Centre for Educa... Read more...
20 May 2026
Lee Elliot Major writes about the use of vulnerability indices in schools to find a way to identify the barriers that may hinder children's learning. ... Read more...
02 April 2026
With great sadness we have learnt that our good friend and colleague David Metcalf has passed away. Together with Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell, David set up the Centre for Labour Economics, which became the Centre ... Read more...
09 February 2026
In an article for The Guardian, Lee Major Elliot writes how Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the ba... Read more...
10 January 2026
Lee Elliot Major is a guest on this edition of Rethink, talking about research recommending that the summer holidays should be cut by a week and that break taken instead in the autumn term. ... Read more...
30 June 2025
The UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) £9.2mn for its five-year programme of work from 2025. This renewed funding will enable CEP to co... Read more...
18 March 2025
Lee Elliot Major writes about the need for new financial arrangements for universities to uphold the principle that a university education should be accessible to all. ... Read more...
21 January 2025
The average rate of school absences not caused by Covid-19 self-isolation doubled after the pandemic, research by Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno has found. ... Read more...
06 September 2024
The 'shock' caused by restrictions introduced during the pandemic in 2020 could take 'seven years to erode', warn Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno. ... Read more...
Spending money on mental health support teams in schools saves more money than it costs within two years, researchers from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance have said. Lord Layard, who led t... Read more...
03 September 2024
A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain's young people are falling behind. Lord Richard Layard talks about a fundamental injustice in Britain's edu... Read more...
20 August 2024
Daniel Chandler writes that to address the vast inequalities in the United States, a fundamental rethink of economic institutions and the values that guide them is needed. ... Read more...
14 May 2024
Lee Elliot Major's research predicts a steady decline in GCSE results of key subjects until 2030, attributing it to the failure to address the academic and social legacies of school closures during the pandemic. ... Read more...
24 April 2024
Lee Elliot Major outlines how the learning loss suffered by pupils during Covid-19 and the resulting decline in social mobility could be the most enduring legacy of the pandemic, explaining why policies that help level t... Read more...
Schools in England must do more to challenge unconscious bias in the classroom against children from working-class backgrounds - Lee Elliot Major discusses practical recommendations schools and policymakers can take to h... Read more...
03 October 2023
Lee Elliot Major explains why England's 2023 school leavers have been unfairly treated over their A-level results. Just under half of A-level entries in the private sector in 2023 were graded A* and A grades, compared wi... Read more...
20 August 2023
Labour forgets that not everyone goes to university. Richard Layard argues that the party’s focus on tuition fees neglects half of young people – and its past success with apprenticeships. ... Read more...
06 July 2023
New research suggests extra activities and help with homework have little effect – but the question is more complicated than it at first appears. Lee Elliot Major discusses what is important when it comes to educat... Read more...
13 April 2023
John Van Reenen and Nick Bloom's study of management practices suggests that more than half of the productivity gap between Britain and the US is due to poor management. ... Read more...
31 January 2023
New research shows the unfolding tragedy of educational disadvantage, Lee Elliot Major writes. ... Read more...
01 September 2022
Nick Bloom in conversation on a surprising find from the pandemic: remote work is fuelling economic growth. ... Read more...
02 June 2022
Mental illness accounts for over 40 per cent of all sickness absence - reducing productivity at work. Richard Layard explains how this highlights the need for wellbeing provision in management practice. ... Read more...
11 May 2022
With only a quarter of pupils having access to counsellors, Richard Layard suggests that a well-being unit be set up within the Department for Education, to provide guidance to schools and help with interventions. ... Read more...
10 February 2022
John Van Reenen shows that well-managed firms make better forecasts - and the traits of those well-managed companies might come as a surprise. ... Read more...
02 February 2022
A study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds evidence that pupils across the UK have lost out on a third of their learning time amid Covid-19, even when home lessons a... Read more...
07 July 2021
Amid calls to allow the option to repeat the entire school year, a major study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds Pupils have missed out on more than half ... Read more...
New research by Lee Elliot Major finds the majority of parents with school aged children feel that exams should be amended to compensate for learning loss resulting from Covid-19. ... Read more...
06 November 2020
New research finds that while 14-year-olds who enrol at University Technical Colleges (UTCs) get significantly worse GCSE results than their peers, 16-year-olds who enrol at a UTC outperform their peers in sk... Read more...
14 October 2020
School closures during the coronavirus lockdown could leave disadvantaged children six months behind their peers, researchers find. ... Read more...
29 April 2020
This paper looks at the effects of changing teachers on children's GCSE grades. Published 2018. ... Read more...
17 April 2020
Steve Gibbons and Sandra McNally review research on the causal effects of school resources on secondary education. ... Read more...
08 April 2020
Harvard Business School professor Raffaella Sadun and her colleagues have studied more than 12,000 companies and found that organizations that do the basic, boring work of managing - documenting processes, setting clear ... Read more...
05 November 2019
The Toronto District School Board used to have a cellphone ban, but reversed it after four years to let teachers dictate what works best for their classrooms. A 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science pape... Read more...
New research reports from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics are highlighted in the Autumn 2019 CentrePiece magazine. As CEP approaches its thirtieth birthday in 202... Read more...
01 November 2019
A large empirical literature documents that the adoption of IT requires changes in the company organization and induces greater productivity gains in the best managed companies, because managerial and IT practices are co... Read more...
22 October 2019
More structured managerial practices have a strong relationship with firm productivity, writes Daniela Scur. ... Read more...
09 September 2019
The study conducted by Christian Krekel, George Ward and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve tries to shed light on the relationship between well-being and company performance. ... Read more...
22 July 2019
Last year research by academics at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance found that phonics improved children's reading. Sandra McNally, one of the authors, notes that, whereas the boost faded with time for better-of... Read more...
18 July 2019
Read more...
An evaluation by LSE's Centre of Economic Performance found "robust evidence" that the Healthy Minds curriculum improves physical health of participants. The report's authors, Grace Lordan, Associate Professor in Behavio... Read more...
This week's guest blog comes from Christian Krekel, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, working with George Ward from MIT Sloan and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve from Oxford Unive... Read more...
17 July 2019
However, at this point in time, even some economists want a change in focus. For example, Professor Lord Richard Layard, from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, recently proposed that ... Read more...
16 July 2019
Nicholas Bloom of Stanford made an analogy with a quite different arena: "Barcelona does not pick its team based on being born in Barcelona—if it did it would not win anything. The ECB should also pick the best." So to... Read more...
05 July 2019
In a 2015 Centre for Economic Performance study in Britain, researchers found that a school smartphone ban improved the academic performance of students in the bottom quarter of the test group significantly (14%) in high... Read more...
04 July 2019
The preeminent happiness researcher shares some surprising results on connecting well-being, mental health, and how employers can play a role in improving our lives at work. ... Read more...
01 July 2019
In this latest blog post, Steven McIntosh of University of Sheffield discusses CVER contributions to the recent Augar Review of Post-18 Education, and the findings that came out of that research. Individual Consequences... Read more...
25 June 2019
One of these efforts can be found in an article by economists Francesco Caselli and Alan Manning. Its mathematical model is quite flexible: it allows many types of workers and many different consumer and capital goods.... Read more...
23 June 2019
22 June 2019
A 2015 study by the London School of Economics found that banning phones could give low-achieving and low-income pupils an additional hour a week in school.... Read more...
20 June 2019
19 June 2019
18 June 2019
The statistics reflect research warnings that the majority of A-level grades predicted by teachers are incorrect. A 2016 report by Dr Gill Wyness of the UCL Institute of Education found that one in six A-level grade pred... Read more...
07 June 2019
Snippet: ...have they can bring them into school was on was switched off and kept in lockers or somewhere safe and there's also an academic research Katie you're aware of which is linked to banning phones to better GCSE ... Read more...
19 May 2019
Snippet: ...school? According to this group of head teachers yes, they should be. The reason they make this argument is they think mobile phones are a complete distraction in school, and there has been evidence from a st... Read more...
18 May 2019
Snippet: ...nd the head teacher who bans mobile phones", adding: "Children in school should not be being distracted by their phones." Banning phones in schools delivers an average 6 per cent increase in test scores, acco... Read more...
01 May 2019
Economists David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen, who wrote one of the first papers to bring attention to the phenomenon of rising concentration, also endorse a story of so-calle... Read more...
26 April 2019
Less efficiency and lower profitability for firms carry lessons for Britain and the US, write Kilian Huber, Volker Lindenthal and Fabian Waldinger. Talented individuals are often excluded from leadership positions if th... Read more...
16 April 2019
A company's performance during and after a recession depends not just on the decisions it makes but also on who makes them. In a 2017 study, Raffaella Sadun (of Harvard Business School), Philippe Aghion (of College de Fr... Read more...
A widely cited 2015 paper from the London School of Economics and Political Science found "student performance in high stake exams significantly increases" if mobile phones are banned.... Read more...
10 April 2019
Snippet: Creating universities directly impacts the economic growth of the region Snippet: According to a study conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics in England and the Massachusetts Institute of T... Read more...
01 April 2019
Meanwhile, a very interesting new paper by economists Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, Remy Lecat and Helene Maghin looks at the relationship between credit constraints and productivity at the level of i... Read more...
27 March 2019
25 March 2019
Bans on mobile phones significantly increases student performance in high-stakes exams, according to a 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science paper.... Read more...
12 March 2019
...which are designed to create positive learning environments." They note that many school boards have policies that allow students to bring their own devices into the classroom for educational purposes. A 2015 London S... Read more...
The Toronto District School Board dropped its ban in 2011, and last summer, it also lifted its ban on Snapchat, Instagram and Netflix. A 2015 London School of Economics study found that ... ... Read more...
Carmen Villa comments on the economics of crime in relation to police numbers and knife crime Outlet: BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio 5 Live and over 15 other local BBC Radio Stations Crime Research... Read more...
07 March 2019
Carmen Villa comments on the economics of crime in relation to police numbers and knife crime. ... Read more...
06 March 2019
But Prof Will Jennings, a political scientist at the University of Southampton, and Prof Tom Kirchmaier, who lectures on crime and policing at the LSE, both tell me that the increase in knife crime is probably real. What... Read more...
By Nicholas Bloom Scott Ohlmacher Cristina Tello-Trillo Melanie Wallskog For 2010 and 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau fielded the Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS) in partnership with a research team of... Read more...
A new study found that hospital prices paid by private insurers for inpatient and outpatient care grew much more quickly than the prices paid to the physicians who provide care in these settings. For all inpatient care, ... Read more...
18 February 2019
10 February 2019
A new study looks at the long-run evolution of rent sharing between companies and workers in the UK and finds that rent sharing has significantly decreased between 2001 and 2016, particularly among companies that enjoy m... Read more...
08 February 2019
Almost all schools are thought to have some controls over mobile phone use. Some ban them outright and others restrict their use in lessons or during playtime. A 2015 study by the London School of Economics found that ba... Read more...
02 February 2019
One little-known study could, however, help shed light on where the problem really lies. According to Professors Bell and Van Reenen of the LSE, the real issue is not that CEO pay has been inflated, but that worker pay h... Read more...
29 January 2019
Snippet: ... A new ESRI study shows smartphone ownership among children has a detrimental impact on their education. And a 2015 study by the Centre of Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that aft... Read more...
17 January 2019
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 ... Read more...
08 December 2018
Discussion of LSE research (Healthy Minds Project) urging the government to incorporate life skills into the national curriculum. Reported widely on local BBC radio stations. ... Read more...
30 November 2018
Healthy Minds is a unique curriculum that redefines personal, social and health education in secondary schools. It aims to develop emotional resilience and self-efficacy in students. The London School of Economic and the... Read more...
27 November 2018
This report draws conclusions globally. For India, we understand there's been a lot of progress on improving allocative efficiencies. For many policy makers the next frontier is some of the capabilities which are interna... Read more...
26 November 2018
The danger of nepotism Professor John Van Reenen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology thinks nepotism is a key risk. A 2011 study authored by Reenen, with Nicholas Bloom and Raffaella Sadun, found that those fa... Read more...
22 November 2018
Numerous studies by economists and others have underscored how hospital consolidation is driving up the cost of medical care. “Within the academic community, there is near unanimity,†said Zack Cooper, a health econo... Read more...
14 November 2018
John Van Reenen comments on whether executives in many industries are sold on the technical revolution. "There is a big debate on whether robots are really delivering on the productivity benefits they might promise." ... Read more...
09 November 2018
One problem in assessing the impact of management is that it is an amorphous and multifaceted category, including a variety of possible activities. This problem has been addressed by the work of economists lik... Read more...
07 July 2018
…A mixture of different types of schools, all free from local authority control, leads to higher grades among pupils but also to greater unhappiness, according to researchers at the London School of Eco... Read more...
16 May 2018
Giving parents more choice over the type of school their children can attend raises academic attainment but leads to more unhappy pupils, researchers have found. This is because schools that face greater compe... Read more...
15 May 2018
The competition created by increased access to autonomous schools, such as academies, faith schools and private schools, raises academic achievement but decreases pupil wellbeing, a new study from the London S... Read more...
Pointing out the weaknesses of the small business, Professor Nicholas Bloom and his colleagues developed a survey instrument for measuring business quality. According to the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Ind... Read more...
02 May 2018
One study suggests incompetent managers are at the root of poor performance issues in UK offices, with 96% of the 800 HR professionals surveyed citing performance management as a problem at their organisation.... Read more...
30 April 2018
But beyond just the numbers, the onset of globalization and its impact on international finance and global commerce has forced American business schools to seek new ways to burnish their “international&r... Read more...
25 April 2018
And academics at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE looked at the relationship between marginal seats and hospital closures between 1997 and 2005. They found “Marginality…has a significant... Read more...
19 April 2018
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Organizations need competent management just as much as they need analytical brilliance, argue the winners of this year’s HBR McKinsey Award, which honors the best Harvard Busine... Read more...
17 April 2018
Harvard Business School associate professor Raffaella Sadun and coauthors Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of MIT have been named the first-place winners of the 59th Annual HBR McKinse... Read more...
Today for the first time, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is to recognise its global centres of excellence with official ESRC Research Institute status. The move acknowledg... Read more...
09 April 2018
Article by Nicholas Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts. In our recent research, we examine the persistence of an intensive management intervention carried out in India (Bloom et ... Read more...
29 March 2018
All in the Family? CEO Choice and Firm Organization, by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, is the first study showing a causal link between dynastic family firms and poorer ... Read more...
01 March 2018
The survey was made by Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren, London School of Economics and the Institute of Business Research. Teachers in independent primary schools, and especially in company-owned independent school... Read more...
28 February 2018
Anna Valero interviewed, speaking about the big picture of UK productivity: low investment, bad training, bad management and lack of infrastructure. BBC business correspondent Jonty Bloom... Read more...
05 February 2018
A decade ago, economists at Berkeley, Stanford and the World Bank conducted a randomised trial in which the bank paid for some textile factories in Mumbai to receive consulting advice from a global company. Th... Read more...
02 February 2018
…7 23 is a town which is just a month ago happiness school is more important than academic qualifications should even be factored into the correctly That's the conclusion of a major report by Lord R... Read more...
01 February 2018
Article by John Van Reenen A 15-year survey of 12,000 firms across 34 countries shows that management practices explain a large share of productivity gaps. Income differences between rich and poor countries... Read more...
18 January 2018
College leaders' effectiveness 'seems unrelated to their salary', according to the Centre for Vocational Education Research. Better principals make a positive difference to their student’s ed... Read more...
19 December 2017
Article by Jennifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Camille Terrier and Clémentine Van Effentererre Principal quality matters for educational performance, argue researchers from the Centre for Vocational Education ... Read more...
Work from home or go to an office: which kind of workers are happier and more efficient? For the first time – surprisingly – there’s some solid academic research on the subject, led by a Stan... Read more...
14 December 2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2017.11.003 ... Read more...
16 November 2017
The standard metric of monopoly power is the concentration ratio, or the share of the market accruing to the top four (or 20) firms. In a 2017 paper, MIT’s David Autor, Christina Patterson, and John Van ... Read more...
26 October 2017
…there have been numerous studies claiming that better management – sometimes equated with more management – is the key to productivity. One in particular – done by economists in Stanf... Read more...
... Read more...
20 October 2017
Article by John Van Reenen. When people discuss what drives long-run productivity, they usually focus on technical change. But productivity is about more than robots, new drugs and self-driving vehicles.... Read more...
18 October 2017
UK economic performance has been poor since the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, but has not been the catastrophe that many predicted. Nicholas Bloom (Stanford) and Paul Mizen (Nottingham University) dr... Read more...
17 October 2017
A 2015 study by Stanford University’s Nicholas Bloom and others on management practices across 1,800 high schools in eight countries, including India, showed that better management produced better educat... Read more...
05 October 2017
A growing body of research shows the role that school leaders play at influencing student outcomes. After studying headmasters in India and abroad, Stanford University Professor Nick Bloom and his colleag... Read more...
04 October 2017
But the exploitation of currently available knowledge is far from complete A recent paper by Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones and Michael Webb of Stanford University, and John Van Reenen of the Massachusetts I... Read more...
29 September 2017
Over the last decade, economists have worked hard on the impact of management on productivity. The effectiveness of management, measured by a set of indicators (quality of internal monitoring, setting clear ob... Read more...
26 September 2017
British companies are increasingly concerned that Brexit will hit sales and raise costs, according to a survey backed by the Bank of England. Tracking the views of chief executives and chief financial officers... Read more...
25 September 2017
And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her. Imagine a person working from home. If you pictured somebody in pajam... Read more...
20 September 2017
Article by John Van Reenen: What are the costs and benefits of regulation? Most countries treat smaller firms more generously when it comes to business regulation, exempting them from some of the burdens on la... Read more...
To what extent does the quality of management matter for a business to be successful? ask Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen ... Read more...
13 September 2017
By Raffaella Sadun, Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen In MBA programs, students are taught that companies can’t expect to compete on the basis of internal managerial competencies because they’r... Read more...
23 August 2017
The rise of academies promised more power for schools - but, with government still clinging to the reins, heads haven't been able to raise standards as expected. However, this system may yet deliver - if m... Read more...
28 July 2017
The two economists, Emma Duchini and Clémentine Van Effenterre, who speak in the "World", believe that this reform did not take into account the interest of parents, especially mothers. ... Read more...
27 July 2017
As has become the tradition for our last post of the academic year, we’re featuring summer reading recommendations from special people at LSE. This year, two winners of the LSESU Teaching Excellence Awar... Read more...
26 June 2017
A study of professors Luis Garicano and Vicente Cuñat, of the London School of Economics, established in 2009, a relationship between a higher degree of politicization, less experience and a lower acade... Read more...
Encouraging better work-life balance does not lead to higher productivity, academics at London School of Economics found. Neither does forcing workers into miserable servitude. Related publications &lsqu... Read more...
“Just as the US military has become more decentralized, letting soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq make more decisions than they would have in Korea or in Vietnam, so are the best firms decen... Read more...
07 June 2017
17 May 2017
Article by Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynfolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta Eksten and John Van Reenen Disentangling the relationship between management practices and productivity ha... Read more...
Freeing schools from council control raises academic attainment because it makes them compete, a study suggests. Researchers at the London School of Economics found that a mix of academies, free schools, faith... Read more...
16 May 2017
Lord Layard also wants government to assess how much value schools add to pupils’ happiness Every school should have an on-site therapist, according to one of the country’s leading economists an... Read more...
11 May 2017
Article by John Van Reenen. Managers are more frequently the butt of jokes from TV shows like “The Office” to “Horrible Bosses,” than seen as drivers of growth. But maybe things ar... Read more...
09 May 2017
Article by Sandra McNally and Stephen Gorard. The level of funding going into schools is at record levels. Prime Minister Theresa May in an interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC on April 30, 2017. As she hit t... Read more...
04 May 2017
Article by Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen Our analysis of the Census data, conducted with Lucia Foster and Ron Jarmin of the U.S. Census Bureau and... Read more...
18 April 2017
The World Wellbeing Panel agrees that every effort should be made to reduce middle management, write Nick Powdthavee and Paul Frijters. Workers’ satisfaction with their job is, on average, higher in ... Read more...
30 January 2017
And it isn't "infrastructure" Improving our management skills is part of this. John van Reenen at the London School of Economics has written about how the quality of management in different co... Read more...
25 January 2017
Snippet: ...Mention of LSE research on productivity in UK compared to productivity in France and Germany ... that LSE researchers suggest that by Thursday lunchtime the other countries have produced... Read more...
23 January 2017
La inestabilidad de los contratos y el desempleo de los padres tienen efectos negativos en el rendimiento educativo de sus hijos. Es una de las principales conclusiones de un estudio elaborado por la investiga... Read more...
However another study from the London School of Economics suggests a ban on phones has the effect of an extra week of classes over a pupil’s school year. Also in: Retford Today Should ... Read more...
21 January 2017
A recent study found a ban on phones generally helps classroom performance research by the London school of economics found that after schools outlawed mobiles test scores of pupils aged 16 impr... Read more...
19 January 2017
A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. A simple question was asked: are hospitals... Read more...
27 December 2016
Economists Nicholas Bloom of Stanford and John Van Reenen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (along with several co-authors) have been compiling evidence for a while now that companies that follow ma... Read more...
21 December 2016
A conversation with MIT’s John Van Reenen When we talk about innovators, we normally talk about how someone becomes one—not when. We talk about the success or failure of their experiments, produ... Read more...
16 December 2016
Article by Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin Increasing the quality and quantity of an individual’s education is seen by many as a panacea to many social ills: stagnating wages, increases in inequality,... Read more...
14 December 2016
In the study’Job Loss at Home: Children’s School Performance during the Great Recession in Spain’, researcher Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London Sch... Read more...
03 December 2016
Skills policies would ideally be co-ordinated with the government’s proposed new industrial strategy. “In the long-run, skills are really important for growth,” said Stephen Machin, co-chair ... Read more...
21 November 2016
Pupils make substantially more progress in literacy if they follow a pen-and-paper course than if they take a similar programme online, new research has found. Researchers working with pupils in 51 primary schools found ... Read more...
28 October 2016
Impact on academia While technology has disrupted the educational system across the world, and with tablets and laptops replacing physical text books and the entire teaching and learning experience, smartphones remain... Read more...
09 October 2016
A paper by Nicholas Bloom and others, from Stanford University, finds that well-managed firms perform better than their peers and make a greater contribution to a nation's total-factor productivity. ... Bloom and colleag... Read more...
18 September 2016
Prime minister champions grammar system but critics argue reforms will damage social mobility But critics were quick to dismiss the reforms. Professor Sandra McNally, director of education and skills at the London Schoo... Read more...
09 September 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 com... Read more...
22 August 2016
By Brian Bell, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, and John Van Reenen Director of the Centre for Economic Performance and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Originally published at VoxEU... Read more...
08 August 2016
Education is not just a vital cornerstone of our culture and economy, it is also potentially one of the great social levellers. However rich or poor our parents, however supportive or dysfunctional our families, a high-q... Read more...
02 August 2016
Brian Bell and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance have carried out a similar exercise looking at top bosses' pay at 500 large listed UK companies between 1999 and 2014. Unl... Read more...
27 July 2016
This finding is mirrored at least in part by a study of sponsored academies established under the previous Labour government, conducted by the London School of Economics, which argues that the impact of conversion should... Read more...
22 July 2016
A feedback cycle has businesses cautious on investment and consumers unwilling to spend In a 2015 working paper, the economists Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis constructed Economic Policy Uncertainty... Read more...
21 July 2016
And if income inequality were not related to our kind, our ethnicity or our level of education, but rather to our workplace? Some employers pay better than others. And the gap between those who pay well and those who pay... Read more...
The evidence is that foreign managers improve the companies they acquire A paper by Nick Bloom of Stanford University and others shows that the David Brents can learn from the Jack Welches: when they take over British f... Read more...
20 July 2016
Yesterday the Education Policy Institute, in partnership with the Sutton Trust, hosted the 'Academies: 15 years on summit'. This was an opportunity for researchers, policy makers and system leaders to come together and c... Read more...
13 July 2016
After years of debate over the effectiveness of academy status, the Education Policy Institute has now released data which it says shows the causal impact of academy status on school performance. Editor Laura McInerney e... Read more...
12 July 2016
New research has found ''no evidence'' that academy status leads to better grades for pupils at schools rated good or satisfactory. The study, by the London School of Economics and the Education Policy Institute (EPI)... Read more...
A bad few days for the image of Britain's retail sector PARLIAMENTARY committees are normally sleepy affairs. Backbench MPs get the chance to grill the occasional bigwig. By replying to questions succinctly witnesses ty... Read more...
11 June 2016
Free nursery care for three year olds has made little or no improvement in primary school exam results, a nine-year study has revealed as academics say the Labour policy has had 'no impact'. ... However, the first and l... Read more...
24 May 2016
Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of economic inequality has been the role that firms play in it. It's safe to say that a significant part of the growing gap in how well different firms pay can be attributed to the lat... Read more...
11 May 2016
From middle schools to colleges, cellphones' adverse effects on student achievement may outweigh their potential as a learning tool. The findings of a recent study on student phone access and the achievement gap by Loui... Read more...
27 April 2016
The frustrating thing is that politicians seem quite happy to ignore evidence - even when they have helped to support the researchers who produced it. For example, when the chancellor George Osborne announced in his bud... Read more...
16 April 2016
14 April 2016
There's no doubt that smartphones have remarkable capabilities which, in theory, could promote student learning. But the truth is that kids - in spite of the best efforts of parents and teachers - use their phones prima... Read more...
12 April 2016
If you're reading this you probably don't need convincing, but one of the most significant milestones in economic research over the last several years was documenting empirically that it really is true. A new paper buil... Read more...
11 April 2016
The article is an in depth summary of Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen's research on the difference in management practices. Ideally, this summary highlights the key points of focus as established by the authors. Th... Read more...
07 April 2016
A new RISE working paper, describing the development of an expanded survey tool, presents research findings that could be used to help systematically measure management practices in schools in developing countries, and p... Read more...
05 April 2016
All schools will become academies, announced George Osborne in his 2016 Budget speech. But the impact of such mass rollout on students' performance is uncertain, explain Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin. This article was... Read more...
16 March 2016
Last year a London School of Economics study found that banning phones from school boosts exam results and benefits low-achieving and low-income pupils the most. This article was published by The Times on March 16, 201... Read more...
John Van Reenen discusses why wages aren't growing. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 News on March 13, 2016 Link to interview here Also ran on BBC World Service Linda Yueh interview John Van Reenen discus... Read more...
13 March 2016
''In the last seven to eight years, wage growth has been very disappointing in the world,'' says John Van Reenen, director of the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics (LSE). This article was... Read more...
12 March 2016
According to studies conducted by John Van Reenen, director at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, differences in productivity between other countries and the US c... Read more...
11 March 2016
Management is thought to play a key role in explaining this gap. In 2012, the results of a decade-long worldwide study carried out by academics at Stanford, Harvard and the LSE found the UK had more badly managed firms t... Read more...
03 March 2016
The UK is still some way off solving the productivity puzzle after final estimates for 2014 from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that productivity was 18 percentage points lower than the average for the r... Read more...
18 February 2016
There is an overall increase in new companies for a range of reasons. One reason has certainly been the economic downturn, which has resulted in people having difficulty find a job and turning to entrepreneurship, accord... Read more...
21 January 2016
Results from the Centre for Economic Performance study in March 2015 suggest deregulation of Sunday trading laws has a considerable positive impact on employment, which stems from new firms being able to enter the mark... Read more...
16 January 2016
A recent study by Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen has documented the remarkable variations across regions and age groups, and within regions, in U.S. health care spending. Previously, the Da... Read more...
30 December 2015
The cost of medical care varies widely across the United States, a new study reports. Hospitals negotiate the cost of medical services with insurance companies. And, the new report found that prices at hospitals in monop... Read more...
26 December 2015
3. New data shows experts were wrong about where healthcare costs less Researchers analyzed the real prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers and found places that spend less on Medicare do not necessarily spend... Read more...
18 December 2015
Article by Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen There is a long history of debate within business, policy, and economic literature regarding whether firms can improve their performance by tr... Read more...
A survey conducted by two researchers from the London School of Economics on a hundred high schools revealed that in schools where it is permissible for mobile students lose the equivalent of a week of school because of ... Read more...
16 December 2015
Article by David Metcalf Would it be sensible to fill vacancies by attracting extra nurses from outside of the EU? These are the main questions the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to examine ... Read more...
A new ''Big Data'' project from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics demonstrates that the prices hospitals negotiate with private ... Read more...
The cost insurance companies pay for a medical operation in a hospital varies dramatically from city to city within the U.S. and can even vary by a factor of nine within an individual city, according to new research. The... Read more...
15 December 2015
Health care is among the largest sectors of the U.S. economy and accounted for more than 17 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014. About 60 percent of the U.S. population has private health insurance, which pay... Read more...
Commercial health plans that cover workplace benefits for millions of Americans pay higher prices to hospitals that have little or no competition, according to a new study that raises questions about how to slow U.S. hea... Read more...
Economists at Yale, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics have released a paper that shows vast differences in charges for hospital procedures across the country. Unlike some... Read more...
Three of the nation's largest insurance companies - Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealth - have let researchers have a look at the negotiated prices they pay for services and procedures like C-sections, MRIs and hospital sta... Read more...
The prices hospitals negotiate with health insurance companies vary enormously within and across geographic regions in the United States, according to a new study coauthored by a Yale economist. ... ''Virtually everythin... Read more...
According to the report, titled ''The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured,'' information collected on Medicare has largely impacted the country's health-care policy as data on ... Read more...
While many studies have shown that Medicare gets a good deal in Rochester, Duluth and Minneapolis, new work from four economists suggests that private insurers in those cities pay noticeably more for care. This article ... Read more...
Researchers have compiled data on $682 billion worth of claims to look at the truth behind medical costs. This article was published online by Marketplace.org on December 15, 2015 Link to article here Related publi... Read more...
Hospitals that face fewer competitors have considerably higher prices, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economi... Read more...
... But a new study casts doubt on that simple message. The research looked not only at Medicare but also at a huge, new database drawn from private-insurance plans - the sorts used by most Americans for health care. And... Read more...
...phones see clear improvement in test scores according to a study by the London School of Economics quote we found the impact of banning... This news item was broadcast by KABC-AM on December 13, 2015 Link to program... Read more...
13 December 2015
The Economist quoted a study by John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, which conducted 14,000 interviews and discovered that UK employees score their bosses le... Read more...
04 December 2015
THE low productivity of British workers has several possible culprits. Inefficient family-run companies are sometimes blamed, as are poor workforce skills. But whereas these problems are well documented, another factor i... Read more...
28 November 2015
Money should follow patients and they need information and choice, write Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen In work with Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler, we evaluate whether competition improves hospital quality, in pa... Read more...
25 November 2015
John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, has studied some of the less high-profile strategies employed by companies that are successful over the long term. This... Read more...
11 November 2015
John Van Reenen, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, joins us to discuss the economics of management, productivity, and information technology. Li... Read more...
09 November 2015
John Van Reenen interviewed about the economics of management, productivity, and information technology. This interview was broadcast by Economic Frontiers on November 9, 2015 Link to article here Related Publicati... Read more...
The primary focus of this incident is on police brutality and the disproportionate levels of school discipline that put young Black girls across America at risk every day. But those who explain the incident away, such as... Read more...
29 October 2015
Debate on banning mobile phones from classrooms mentions LSE [CEP] research. The news item was broadcast by BBC Radio Suffolk on September 30, 2015 Link to broadcast here See also BBC Radio Shropshire News Discussi... Read more...
30 September 2015
LSE report says primaries improving since 90s and abolition of Inner London Education Authority led to pupils' success One of the researchers, Jo Blanden of the University of Surrey, said: ''London's schools have become... Read more...
Richard Murphy interviewed about research into effect in schools of banning mobile phones. The interview was broadcast by BBC Essex Radio on September 29, 2015 Link to interview here Related publications In brief... ... Read more...
29 September 2015
In May, the London School of Economics found that banning mobile phones from classrooms could benefit students' learning by as much as an additional week's worth of schooling over an academic year. The report found that ... Read more...
27 September 2015
Henry Overman interviewed by Philip Salter It's easy to make policy, but it's hard to make the right ones. These are the sorts of questions the excellent What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth looks at. It recently... Read more...
25 September 2015
The new Cottenham principal said research by the London School of Economics found that on average schools that have a ''hard ban'' on mobile phones see a 6 per cent increase in their results. This article was published ... Read more...
17 September 2015
Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, has raised concerns about secondary pupils using their phones at school. LSE academics released a study in May suggesting that restricting mobile phone use could improve results. This a... Read more...
14 September 2015
That time difference adds 2.6 percent extra productivity for the professionals, finds an LSE-Columbia-Harvard team. An emerging body of evidence indicates that family management may actually be detrimental for performan... Read more...
Behaviour expert Tom Bennett is to look into the impact of devices used by pupils under an expansion of his investigation into how to train teachers to tackle poor behaviour, Schools Minister Nick Gibb said. It follows ... Read more...
13 September 2015
...the role of smart phones in the classroom its after research from the London school of economics suggested exam results improve in schools... This broadcast was made by BBC Radio Glouchestershire on September 3, 2015... Read more...
03 September 2015
Mention of research from London school of economics about mobile phones in the classroom. The research was mentioned on LBC Radio's James O'Brien show on September 2, 2015 Link to the broadcast here Related Publicat... Read more...
02 September 2015
A recent study by the Centre for economic performance at the London School of Economics is quite the supporters of cell phone bans. The authors Louis-Philippe BELAND and Richard Murphy had compared student performance be... Read more...
01 September 2015
Mention of research on mobile phones in the classroom. Broadcast on BBC Radio Newcastle on September 1, 2015 [No link available] Related publications In brief ... Phone home: should mobiles be banned in schools?, Lou... Read more...
A recent large-scale study found that banning mobile phones improved exam results by 2%, even when gender and class had been accounted for. At first glance it seems an insignificant rise but the impact is equivalent to o... Read more...
Leaders could also test whether specific work conditions or policies affect workers' performance. ... Nick Bloom of Stanford University and his colleagues conducted a randomized experiment on working from home using a NA... Read more...
20 August 2015
Article by John Van Reenen Unlike most commentators I have actually read Corbyn's ''The Economy in 2020'' as well as the 1983 manifesto. Corbyn's document has several major advantages. First, at 8 pages it is much short... Read more...
15 August 2015
More evidence of the success of the academy schools programme was published yesterday. A new paper by Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE finds that ''the first round of acad... Read more...
14 August 2015
Stanford economics professor Nicholas A. Bloom explains how Alphabet will make investors comfortable: ''There are two benefits of the new structure. One is visibility, in that with the split it makes it easier to model t... Read more...
13 August 2015
It's a well-known fact that Essex is blessed with an excellent choice of schools, in both the public and private sectors. And thanks to some research published a couple of years ago by the Centre for Economic Performance... Read more...
12 August 2015
A society where more workers got to use the duvet office would be a happier, more productive one In 2014, Stanford University academics compared the performance of remote employees to those in the office at Ctrip, China... Read more...
05 August 2015
Those of us who have run hospitals where we've been serious about achieving improvements in quality and safety know that without a highly committed board of trustees, the results will never be sustainable. And so it is l... Read more...
03 August 2015
Article by Anna Valero In the 2015 summer budget, George Osborne at last identified the UK's productivity performance as an important issue that needs to be tackled. Here, Anna Valero reviews some of the measures ahea... Read more...
09 July 2015
Texas-universitetet om studien som er publisert av Centre for Economic Performance ved London School of Economics and Political Science. - Mobiltelefoner kan være forstyrrende, legger han til ... Mobile prohibition gav... Read more...
24 June 2015
Professor Nicholas Bloom from the Department of Economics at Stanford University, with his graduate student James Liang, conducted an interesting experiment at Chinese travel website Ctrip's call center. Employees could ... Read more...
18 June 2015
Quality of leadership determines student achievement There is a clear link between management quality and students' academic achievements. It shows an international research study of 1,800 schools in eight countries. Ad... Read more...
12 June 2015
Article by Nicholas Bloom and Renata Lemos There is a clear link between management quality and students' academic achievements. It shows an international research study by Stanford Professor Nicholas Bloom in collabora... Read more...
11 June 2015
In fact, according to academics at the London School of Economics, the effect of banning mobile phones from school premises adds up to the equivalent of an extra week's schooling across the academic year. This artic... Read more...
10 June 2015
That a ban on mobile phone use by pupils in schools may be quite useful, has now been proven by Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy on behalf of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.... Read more...
04 June 2015
Marco Manacorda filmed giving a talk at the Festival of Economics on Trento. There is abundant anecdotal evidence but poor empirical evidence of the benefits enjoyed by the relatives of politicians in the labor market. ... Read more...
02 June 2015
Having a politician relative adds an average of 500 euros a year to one's salary, according to a new study by two Italian economists. This is equal to a 3 percent increase in an average paycheck. In comparison, every a... Read more...
Last month, a study from the London School of Economics for the first time provided hard evidence that banning phones in school boosts student achievement. ''Mobile phones now are a ubiquitous part of a teenager's life''... Read more...
01 June 2015
Corporate greed isn't good, but it might not be as bad for inequality as we thought - or at least not in the way we thought. Now it seems pretty obvious that inequality must have something to do with executive pay. After... Read more...
29 May 2015
Anna Sivropoulos-Valero interviewed on productivity. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4's More or Less Programme on May 29, 2015 Link to interview here [Interview begins around 08:24.] Related publications ... Read more...
BANNING mobile phones in the classroom can boost test scores by more than 6 per cent, according to a new study. Researchers at the London School of Economics looked at secondary schools in four English cities, including... Read more...
26 May 2015
About 85 per cent of Canadian high school students have a mobile phone, but two economics researchers have concluded cellphones are distracting in class. Their research paper concludes high school students score higher m... Read more...
25 May 2015
The London School of Economics showed that test scores of 16-year-old students were 6.4 percent higher after schools banned students from using mobile phones. This article was published by the Guardian - Teacher Netwo... Read more...
20 May 2015
It may seem like common sense that keeping smartphones away from kids would improve their performance at school. Now a study by the London School of Economics has the data to back it up. ... ''By surveying schools in fou... Read more...
The study by the London School of Economics found a link between banning smartphones in schools and increased test scores. This article was published online by WFXG FOX 54 on May 19, 2015 Link to article here A... Read more...
19 May 2015
Schools that have banned students from carrying smartphones have seen an improvement in the children's test stores, reported CNN Money on a new study from the London School of Economics. This article was published onl... Read more...
Article by Richard Murphy and Louis-Philippe Beland How does the presence of mobile phones in schools impact student achievement? This is an ongoing debate in many countries today. Some advocate for a complete ban, whil... Read more...
12 May 2015
As Pret a Manger becomes the latest company to credit happy workers for improved profits, we examine the evidence that suggests smiling employees might keep the tills ringing. There is a slight problem with anecdotal ev... Read more...
22 April 2015
Article by Sandra McNally The Conservative Party manifesto makes the following commitments in the area of school-age education: •A good primary school place for your child with zero tolerance for failure. •... Read more...
16 April 2015
15 April 2015
Girls in French secondary schools are benefiting from a marking bias by maths teachers, finds research. The girls were given 6 percent higher marks than boys for similar work, says the study by the London School of Econo... Read more...
14 April 2015
According to one academic paper, about a quarter of Britain's productivity gap with America can be put down to poor management. The main weakness is that too many of Britain's family-owned firms still prefer primogenitur... Read more...
11 April 2015
To revivify England's schools, the coalition embarked on a colossal structural reform. Soon after coming to power it changed the law to allow many schools to become ''academies'', giving them much greater say over how th... Read more...
09 April 2015
... go away'', said David Marsden, an expert in employee relations at the London School of Economics. How management deals with the current tragedy could affect the tenor of future talks, said ... This article was p... Read more...
30 March 2015
Article by Sandra McNally With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast-p... Read more...
24 March 2015
Why Brazil produces fewer world-class companies than it should A big reason for Brazilian firms' underperformance is less well rehearsed: poor management. Since 2004 John van Reenen of the London School of Economics and... Read more...
28 February 2015
In a recent article in McKinsey Quarterly John Dowdy, a director of McKinsey, and John van Reenen, an economics professor and director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, argue that ... Read more...
25 February 2015
A paper newly published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics tests the size of these effects on achievement by looking at the random component of sorting that occurs when most British children transition fr... Read more...
16 February 2015
Competition among hospitals is linked to better quality management and lower death rate, suggests research published in The Review of Economic Studies. But competition on quality rather than price is likely to be key, sa... Read more...
30 January 2015
Research by the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance was published in The Review of Economic Studies and involved 61% of all NHS providers of acute care in England. The study shows that adding one extra hospital in a ne... Read more...
29 January 2015
As David Cameron lambasts Ed Miliband for allegedly wanting to ''weaponise'' the National Health Service in the election, new research gives the UK prime minister some ammunition of his own. LSE economists have measured ... Read more...
The Labour Party believes in reforming the NHS as much as in spending more taxpayers' money on it, and that the more independent providers of NHS services the better, if they can do a good job. ... It is also worth notin... Read more...
Select Committee publications: education 3. The growth in the number of academies and free schools and the significance of their impact on the educational landscape in England led us to decide that it would be timely to... Read more...
28 January 2015
During Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced his plan to expand paid leave for workers, starting with the federal government. Even with three months available to them, few Americans can t... Read more...
21 January 2015
Article by Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen Schools with greater autonomy often perform well, but there is disagreement over whether this is due to better management or cherry-picking of students. Bas... Read more...
07 December 2014
Article by Paul Dolan Being happy at work is important. Studies suggest that if you're not happy at work, you're less productive, more likely to take days off sick, and a poor problem solver. Still, some people mainta... Read more...
20 November 2014
It is generally agreed that firms can improve their employees' wellbeing through improvements in job quality - but is it in their economic interests to do so? This column reports research showing that satisfied employee... Read more...
17 November 2014
Depuis plus d'une dizaine d'annees, une equipe de chercheurs reunie autour de Nicholas Bloom (professeur a Stanford) et John Van Reenen (professeur a la London School of Economics) etudie l'influence des techniques de ma... Read more...
12 November 2014
Zack Cooper discusses whether US efforts to reform health care could mean a loss of medical innovation for the rest of the world. This interview was broadcast on Public Radio International on November 7, 2014 Link to... Read more...
07 November 2014
Nick Bloom and his colleagues studied 700 firms around the world. ''We find more productive, faster growing and better managed firms offer their employees a more attractive work-life balance package'', Bloom said in an e... Read more...
23 October 2014
Studies show that fears about remote workers being 'untrustworthy' and less productive are unfounded; a 2013 study by the London School of Economics and Political Science found that employees able to work from home are m... Read more...
16 October 2014
The academies programme has transformed England's educational landscape. ... A separate study by Professor Machin and Andrew Eyles at the London School of Economics identified ''beneficial effects'' in schools becoming a... Read more...
11 October 2014
Article by John Dowdy and John Van Reenen While government policy will play a key role, the actions of managers and their organizations will decisively influence the realization of global productivity potential in the y... Read more...
30 September 2014
Professor John Van Reenen, Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Performance, has been awarded the European Investment Bank Institute's 2014 'Outstanding Contribution Award'. The accolade, jointly awarded to Pr... Read more...
28 July 2014
The EIB Institute announces that this year's 'Outstanding Contribution Award' - with a prize of EUR 40,000 - will go jointly to Professors Nicholas Bloom (Department of Economics, Stanford University) and John Van Reenen... Read more...
22 July 2014
Com'è la giornata tipo di un manager nel mondo? Quante ore lavora e cosa fa in quelle ore? Uno studio su amministratori delegati europei, americani, indiani e brasiliani condotto da Raffaella Sadun (che insegna Bu... Read more...
03 June 2014
Johtajuus voi selittaa neljanneksen tai jopa kolmanneksen eroista kokonaistuottavuudessa maiden ja yritysten valilla. Taloustieteilijoiden Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur ja John Van Reenen tu... Read more...
22 May 2014
In 2010, the US Census Bureau conducted the first large-scale survey of management practices in America, gathering data on more than 30,000 manufacturing plants. Nicholas Bloom and colleagues find strong links between es... Read more...
21 May 2014
In their blog, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen say that good management in schools has a stronger effect than class sizes or quality teaching. This blog was posted in the guardian.com teachers' blog on May 20, 2014 ... Read more...
20 May 2014
Meanwhile, justification for rapid academisation is scant. A 2009 report by LSE academics Stephen Machin and Joan Wilson signals there was little proof that New Labour's academies raised the attainment of poorer students... Read more...
14 May 2014
Professors at Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics and Columbia University's business school examined the schedules of 356 chief executives in India and found that family CEOs worked 8 percent fewer ho... Read more...
07 March 2014
New York: When it comes to good management the US is on the top of the world followed by Germany, Japan, Sweden and Canada, while China's tail of poorly run firms is shorter than India's, says a study by Stanford Univers... Read more...
23 January 2014
For the past decade a group of economists, including Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics, have been trying to bring some rigour to the argument. They have focused o... Read more...
17 January 2014
One of my pet causes is the importance of good management. Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen have observed that management quality can account much of the persistent difference in productivity across firms in a given se... Read more...
30 January 2013
Now we have science saying it: management consultants add value. A formal study, sponsored by the World Bank and using a control group of factories as well as a treatment group, quantified the results. First year economi... Read more...
27 January 2013
The research aims to develop a much clearer picture of what business leaders and top management teams can do to develop their organizations and become more innovative. A large-scale research project conducted by McKinsey... Read more...
13 December 2011
Speech given by Michael Gove on December 1, 2011 in Birmingham A few months ago, academics at the London School of Economics published a landmark assessment of the academies programme. They found three things. First, ... Read more...
02 December 2011
Professor John Van Reenen, director of the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance, told The Telegraph that management quality was "highly linked" to productivity and profits, and that second- and third-... Read more...
01 December 2011
LSE academics surveyed 10,000 companies for the Business Department. Family firms should heed LSE's findings: many of our most successful private companies are family-run and they will be justifiably indignant at the Lon... Read more...
Research has suggested that family-owned companies have the UK's most satisfied workforces. John van Reenen of the LSE recently accused family businesses of inefficiency due to poor management quality. This article ... Read more...
19 July 2011
LSE and Harvard Business School researchers have conducted a survey to find out what chief executives do all day. 60pc of time was taken up with meetings. This article appeared in The Times on June 2, 2011 No ... Read more...
02 June 2011
If your company’s CEO is attending too many private lunches and golf games, he could be wasting company resources. But he also could be making valuable business connections. Determining which scenario is more likely was ... Read more...
30 May 2011
The move to convert schools to academy status is underpinned by research, most recently a paper by Stephen Machin and James Vernoit of the London School of Economics, which found Labour's academies not only improved thei... Read more...
23 May 2011
Information-based systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, will push decision-making toward the bottom of the corporate ladder. Communication systems, such as e-mail and instant messaging application... Read more...
01 November 2010
Professor John Van Reenen, director of CEP, said: “An overriding message is that management quality varies greatly within countries, even within a publicly dominated healthcare sector like the NHS. Many of the same facto... Read more...
Fewer than 60% of managers in UK hospitals were found to have a clinical degree, compared to more than 90% in Sweden, and the UK had the lowest proportion of managers with a clinical degree in all the countries surveyed.... Read more...
28 October 2010
Private sector hospitals perform better than public sector, according to a new report co-written by McKinsey and the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE. Management in Healthcare: Why good practice really matters... Read more...
27 October 2010
Hospitals in the United Kingdom are “better managed” than their counterparts in several European countries and Canada, new research concludes. It also says that private sector organisations perform best overall across th... Read more...
From America to Sweden, the best hospitals in a rich country outperform the rest. But how? Stephen Dorgan of McKinsey, a consultancy, and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics have tried to answer this. They ... Read more...
There is a strong association between high quality management and patient outcomes in UK hospitals, the management consultancy McKinsey and Co have claimed. The consultancy, with the London School of Economics' Centre fo... Read more...
26 October 2010
UK Hospitals are better managed and have more satisfied patients than hospitals in Sweden, Germany, Canada, Italy and France, management consultants McKinsey and academics from the London School of Economics report. Only... Read more...
Researchers at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance and consultancy McKinsey & Company assessed the management practices of almost 1,200 hospitals in seven countries: the UK, US, Canada, France... Read more...
25 October 2010
25th October 2010 - for immediate release Better managed hospitals have significantly lower mortality rates, significantly more satisfied patients - and all at a lower cost. This is one of the principal findings of ne... Read more...
Steven Morgan of McKinsey and John Van Reenen of LSE have studied 1,200 hospitals to see which are the best managed and the practices that common to the best. They found five characteristics shared by well-run hospitals,... Read more...
22 October 2010
Competition in the English NHS improves hospital efficiency and can save the health service significant amounts of money, according to a new study by researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE). The study fin... Read more...
30 June 2010
On average, a 10 percent increase in the private sector wages is associated with a 7 percent increase in heart attack death say Carol Propper of the University of Bristol and John Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic Pe... Read more...
30 May 2010
Familienunternehmen sind die besten Firmen überhaupt? Und wenn die Rahmenbedingungen eines Landes nicht stimmen, scheitert selbst der erfolgreichste Manager? Diese beiden Glaubenssätze haven Wirtschaftsprofessor Nicholas... Read more...
27 May 2010
... the evidence that market reforms have improved healthcare in England is mixed. Competitive areas A study from the London School of Economics showed fewer 30-day deaths from acute MI in more competitive areas and c... Read more...
18 March 2010
Hospitals with stronger management have better clinical results, according to a London School of Economics study. The LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance found that management was better where more senior staff had ... Read more...
15 March 2010
Hospitals with stronger management have better clinical results, according to a London School of Economics study. The LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance found that management was better where more ... This articl... Read more...
18 February 2010
Yet the opposite is true, according to a report from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE) that finds "that the presence of investors boosts innovation by decreasing the risks face... Read more...
31 March 2009
Press coverage of the management survey in an Italian newspaper. This article appeared in Republica on the 27th March 2009. Link to article. Related Links Nick Bloom webpage Raffaella Sadun webpage ... Read more...
27 March 2009
John Van Reenen interviewed on pension funds – that they have a role to play in demanding better corporate governance. This interview was broadcast on the 13th March 2009. Link to article. Related Link... Read more...
13 March 2009
Three pieces of government-backed research have confirmed that effective use of IT can give companies a "significant" productivity boost. The first paper, 'It ain't what you do it's the way that you do IT' from the Cent... Read more...
10 October 2008
Do common management techniques such as setting targets, monitoring performance and "lean" manufacturing actually help companies become more productive and profitable? An extensive new study suggests the answer is yes. R... Read more...
08 September 2008
Article refers to the study Management Practice and Productivity: Why They Matter, conducted by academics including John Van Reenen, professor of economics and director of the Centre for Economic Performance at London Sc... Read more...
13 November 2007
Nick Bloom, of Stanford University, and Rafaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, of the London School of Economics, find that British factories of American multinationals are more productive than the country's other foreign-o... Read more...
17 May 2007
Companies that are bigger, more globalised and better managed provide a better work-life balance for their employees, according to new research Work-Life Balance, Management Practices and Productivity by Nick Bloom, Tob... Read more...
09 January 2006