Management

When Chinese manufacturer Fuyao Glass opened a plant in Moraine, Ohio, it hadn’t anticipated that its newly hired American workforce would be less productive than its Chinese workers. That’s partially because it made a classic mistake, says Cynthia Wang, clinical professor of management and organizations. It forgot to consider the culture of its new workforce—specifically,…

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Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images It was her dream job — on paper, at least. As the vice president of communications at a global pharmaceutical company, Rushmie Nofsinger expected to step into a challenging role in which she could use her strengths and passions to have a positive impact on issues that really mattered…

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CEPDP1770. May 2021.Absent providers of key public services, such as schooling and health, are a major problem in both developed and developing countries. This paper provides the first analysis of a population-wide controlled field experiment for home visits checking on sick leave in the public sector. The experiment was carried out in Italy, a country…

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CEPDP1766. May 2021.We study the impact of borrower protection on mortgage and housing demand. We focus on variation in the likelihood that a house is repossessed — conditional on the mortgage being in arrears and taken to court — coming from heterogeneity in preferences of judges that adjudicate on repossession cases in England and Wales.…

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CEPDP1767. May 2021.The empirical management literature has found that the education of both managers and the workforce more generally appears to be an important driver of better management practices. This article sets out how such relationships might be conceptualised, and suggests that in a complementarities framework, modern management practices can be thought of as a…

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CEPDP1768. May 2021.The second half of the twentieth century saw large-scale suburbanization in the United States, with the median share of residents who work in the same county where they live falling from 87 to 71 percent between 1970 and 2000. We introduce a new methodology for discriminating between the three leading explanations for this…

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CEPDP1769. May 2021.Rehabilitating convicted criminals is challenging; indeed, an important share of them return to prison only a few years after their release. Thus, finding effective ways of encouraging crime desistance, particularly among young individuals, has become an important policy goal to reduce crime and incarceration rates. This paper provides causal evidence that the local…

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This blog is a translation of an original piece called “Rethinking gender-based violence research ethics“ published in English here. It has been translated into Tamil to allow those who contributed to this blog – mainly Tamil speaking survivors and grassroots organisations – to engage with it. உலகத் தெற்கு முழுவதும், மில்லியன் கணக்கான பெண்கள் தொழிற்சாலைகள் மற்றும் கிடங்குகளில்…

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As universities integrate generative AI (GenAI) tools to support students’ learning and better prepare them for the requirements of tomorrow’s labour market, it is crucial to evaluate how students use these technologies and how such use impacts their skill development. Following Oxford university’s announcement to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) offering and capabilities in collaboration…

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