Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

NBER Working Paper No. 23880

Issued in September 2017

NBER Program(s):Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship



We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint MBA-healthcare courses may be a channel through which universities increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance.

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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w23880

Published: Nicholas Bloom & Renata Lemos & Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen, 2020. "Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Health Care," The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol 102(3), pages 506-517. citation courtesy of

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