Stanford Seed Project Ensures Healthier, Safer Factories
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business recently discussed a Stanford Seed project crafted by economics professor Nick Bloom that examined the impact that teaching better management skills could have on productivity, health, safety and wages in the developing world. Those skills, hopefully, translate to healthier and safer factories.
New Booth Study Shows Low Profits Drive Mergers
New research from the Booth School of Business finds that low profits drive mergers more so then low productivity. The paper, “Acquisitions, Productivity and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry,” was written by Booth professor Chad Syverson, with co-authors Serguey Braguinsky of Carnegie Mellon University, Atsushi Ohyama of Hokkaido University and Tetsuji Okazaki of the University of Tokyo. Continue reading…
