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  "author": "Raffaella Sadun",
  "affiliation": "Harvard Business School",
  "website": "https://raffaellasadun.com",
  "updated": "2026-09-27",
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      "title": "Before the Exodus? Young Scientists and the Future of US Science",
      "coauthors": "Pierre Azoulay and Daniela Scur",
      "venue": "NBER Working Paper 35330",
      "year": 2026,
      "status": "working",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w35330",
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    {
      "title": "Management and Firm Dynamism",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom, Jonathan S. Hartley, Rachel Schuh and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "NBER Working Paper 33765",
      "year": 2025,
      "status": "working",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w33765",
      "pdf_url": ""
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    {
      "title": "CEO-Firm Matches and Productivity in 42 Countries",
      "coauthors": "Amanda Dahlstrand, David Laszlo, Helena Schweiger, Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat",
      "venue": "NBER Working Paper 33324",
      "year": 2025,
      "status": "working",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w33324",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "The Demand for Executive Skills",
      "coauthors": "Stephen Hansen, Tejas Ramdas and Joseph Fuller",
      "venue": "NBER Working Paper 28959",
      "year": 2021,
      "status": "working",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w28959",
      "pdf_url": ""
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    {
      "title": "Re-organizing Work inside the Firm: Task Change after Technology Adoption",
      "coauthors": "Eleonora Brandimarti, Virginia Minni, Paula Neira and Jorge Tamayo",
      "venue": "Working paper",
      "year": null,
      "status": "working",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=69292",
      "pdf_url": ""
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    {
      "title": "Unwilling to Reskill? Experimental Evidence from Real-World Jobseekers",
      "coauthors": "Alexia Delfino, Andrea Garnero, Sergio Inferrera and Marco Leonardi",
      "venue": "NBER Working Paper 34633; CEPR Discussion Paper 21055",
      "year": 2026,
      "status": "working",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w34633",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Training within Firms",
      "coauthors": "Brayan Diaz, Andrea Neyra-Nazarrett, Julian Ramirez and Jorge Tamayo",
      "venue": "NBER Working Paper 33670",
      "year": 2025,
      "status": "working",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w33670",
      "pdf_url": ""
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    {
      "title": "Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space",
      "coauthors": "Stephen Hansen, Peter John Lambert, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis and Bledi Taska",
      "venue": "NBER Working Paper 31007",
      "year": 2023,
      "status": "working",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w31007",
      "pdf_url": ""
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    {
      "title": "Variation in Management Practices and Quality of Care in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals",
      "coauthors": "Laura Katsnelson, Savita Sathya, Edward Watkins, Alice Zawacki and Thomas C. Tsai",
      "venue": "Working paper",
      "year": null,
      "status": "working",
      "theme": "Health care and the public sector",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "The New Digital Divide",
      "coauthors": "Mayana Pereira, Shane Greenstein, Prasanna Tambe, Lucia Ronchi Darre, Tammy Glazer, Allen Kim, Rahul Dodhia and Juan Lavista Ferres",
      "venue": "Nature Communications, forthcoming",
      "year": 2026,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w32932",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and Expertise",
      "coauthors": "Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Charles Ayoubi, Hila Lifshitz, Ethan Mollick, Lilach Mollick, Yi Han, Jeff Goldman, Hari Nair, Stew Taub and Karim R. Lakhani",
      "venue": "Organization Science",
      "year": 2026,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "journal_url": "https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2025.20702",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w33641",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "How Do Chief Executive Officers Make Strategy?",
      "coauthors": "Mu-Jeung Yang, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom and Jan Rivkin",
      "venue": "Management Science 72(6)",
      "year": 2026,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "journal_url": "https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2023.03924",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w27952",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS",
      "coauthors": "Katharina Janke and Carol Propper",
      "venue": "Management Science, forthcoming",
      "year": 2026,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Health care and the public sector",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w25853",
      "pdf_url": ""
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    {
      "title": "The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment",
      "coauthors": "Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh",
      "venue": "Review of Economics and Statistics 108(1)",
      "year": 2026,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Health care and the public sector",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01384",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w29449",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers",
      "coauthors": "Stephen Michael Impink and Andrea Prat",
      "venue": "Management Science 71(1)",
      "year": 2025,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.02719",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w29042",
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    },
    {
      "title": "The International Empirics of Management",
      "coauthors": "Daniela Scur, Scott Ohlmacher, John Van Reenen, Morten Bennedsen, Nicholas Bloom and coauthors",
      "venue": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(45)",
      "year": 2024,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2412205121",
      "free_version_url": "https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/publications/abstract.asp?index=11244",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation",
      "coauthors": "Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andy Newman and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "Journal of the European Economic Association 22(1)",
      "year": 2024,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad027",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w24603",
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    },
    {
      "title": "The World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward",
      "coauthors": "Daniela Scur, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos and Nicholas Bloom",
      "venue": "Oxford Review of Economic Policy 37(2)",
      "year": 2021,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grab009",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w28524",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times",
      "coauthors": "Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 13(1)",
      "year": 2021,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20180752",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w23354",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "How Does Working from Home during COVID-19 Affect What Managers Do? Evidence from Time-Use Studies",
      "coauthors": "Thomaz Teodorovicz, Andrew Kun and Orit Shaer",
      "venue": "Human-Computer Interaction 37(6)",
      "year": 2022,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1987908",
      "free_version_url": "https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10356908",
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    },
    {
      "title": "The Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Communication Patterns",
      "coauthors": "Evan DeFilippis, Stephen Michael Impink, Madison Singell and Jeffrey T. Polzer",
      "venue": "Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9",
      "year": 2022,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01190-9",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Multitasking while Driving: A Time Use Study of Commuting Knowledge Workers to Assess Current and Future Uses",
      "coauthors": "Thomaz Teodorovicz, Andrew Kun and Orit Shaer",
      "venue": "International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 162",
      "year": 2022,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2022.102789",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.hbs.edu/ris/download.aspx?name=teodorovicz_kun_sadun_shaer_2022_ijhcs_ungated.pdf",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Perceptions Related to Engaging in Non-Driving Activities in an Automated Vehicle while Commuting: A Text Mining Approach",
      "coauthors": "Yilun Xing, Linda Ng Boyle, John D. Lee, Orit Shaer and Andrew Kun",
      "venue": "Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 94",
      "year": 2023,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.01.015",
      "free_version_url": "https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10453088",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Measuring Collaboration in Modern Organizations",
      "coauthors": "Stephen Michael Impink and Andrea Prat",
      "venue": "American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 110",
      "year": 2020,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20201068",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.hbs.edu/ris/download.aspx?name=MeasuringCollaboration_May2020.pdf",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Health Care",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "Review of Economics and Statistics 102(3)",
      "year": 2020,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Health care and the public sector",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00847",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w23880",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "CEO Behavior and Firm Performance",
      "coauthors": "Oriana Bandiera, Stephen Hansen and Andrea Prat",
      "venue": "Journal of Political Economy 128(4)",
      "year": 2020,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1086/705331",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w23248",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work",
      "coauthors": "Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos and Andrea Prat",
      "venue": "Review of Financial Studies 31(5)",
      "year": 2018,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhx138",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w19722",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "International Data on Measuring Management Practices",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 106(5)",
      "year": 2016,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20161058",
      "free_version_url": "https://worldmanagementsurvey.org/wp-content/images/2010/07/PrivateData-Final.pdf",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Hospital Board and Management Practices Are Strongly Related to Hospital Performance on Clinical Quality Metrics",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom, Atul Gawande, Robert Huckman, Ashish Jha and Thomas Tsai",
      "venue": "Health Affairs 34(8)",
      "year": 2015,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Health care and the public sector",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1282",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Do Private Equity Owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 105(5)",
      "year": 2015,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20151000",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.hbs.edu/ris/download.aspx?name=Private_Equity_March_2015.pdf",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Does Management Matter in Schools?",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "Economic Journal 125(584)",
      "year": 2015,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Health care and the public sector",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12267",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w20667",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives",
      "coauthors": "Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso and Andrea Prat",
      "venue": "Journal of Labor Economics 33(3)",
      "year": 2015,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1086/679672",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w16691",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers?",
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      "venue": "Review of Economics and Statistics 97(5)",
      "year": 2015,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00492",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w19797",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "The New Empirical Economics of Management",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "Journal of the European Economic Association 12(4)",
      "year": 2014,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/jeea.12094",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w20102",
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    {
      "title": "The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "Management Science 60(12)",
      "year": 2014,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2014.2013",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w14975",
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    {
      "title": "The Organization of Firms Across Countries",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "Quarterly Journal of Economics 127(4)",
      "year": 2012,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qje029",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w15129",
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    {
      "title": "Americans Do IT Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "American Economic Review 102(1)",
      "year": 2012,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Technology and work",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.1.167",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w13085",
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    {
      "title": "Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata",
      "coauthors": "Jonathan Haskel",
      "venue": "Economica 79(315)",
      "year": 2012,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0335.2011.00903.x",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/4028/regulation-and-uk-retailing-productivity-evidence-from-micro-data",
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    {
      "title": "Management Practices across Firms and Countries",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "Academy of Management Perspectives 26(1)",
      "year": 2012,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2011.0077",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w17850",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos and Ralf Martin",
      "venue": "Economic Journal 120(544)",
      "year": 2010,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02351.x",
      "free_version_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w14394",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize?",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 100(2)",
      "year": 2010,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.2.434",
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    {
      "title": "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "Annual Review of Economics 2",
      "year": 2010,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.economics.050708.143328",
      "free_version_url": "https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICATIONS/abstract.asp?index=3556",
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    {
      "title": "Measuring and Explaining Management Practices in Italy",
      "coauthors": "Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen",
      "venue": "Rivista di Politica Economica",
      "year": 2008,
      "status": "published",
      "theme": "Management practices and productivity",
      "journal_url": "https://www.rivistapoliticaeconomica.it/measuring-and-explaining-management-practices-in-italy/",
      "pdf_url": ""
    },
    {
      "title": "Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?",
      "coauthors": "Victor Bennett and Megan Lawrence",
      "venue": "In Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses, University of Chicago Press",
      "year": 2017,
      "status": "chapter",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "journal_url": "https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/measuring-entrepreneurial-businesses-current-knowledge-and-challenges/are-founder-ceos-good-managers",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Italian Managers: Fidelity or Performance?",
      "coauthors": "Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso and Andrea Prat",
      "venue": "In The Ruling Class: Management and Politics in Modern Italy, Oxford University Press",
      "year": 2010,
      "status": "chapter",
      "theme": "Leaders and managers",
      "journal_url": "https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ruling-class-9780199588282",
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