Date: Thursday 20 May 2010
Time: 6.30-7.45pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor John Roberts
Chair: Professor Saul Estrin

Update: Friday 30 April 5.30pm, this event was originally scheduled on Thursday 6 May.

The quality of management varies significantly across countries, with less developed countries featuring a large share of poorly managed firms. In a field experiment we explore why so many Indian firms are poorly managed, whether this can be improved and what the effect of better management is on performance. We find strong positive results.

John Roberts holds the John H and Irene S Scully Professorship in Economics, Strategic Management and International Business in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Professor Saul Estrin is Head of the Department of Management at LSE.

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