I've Met a Lot of My Co-Authors at Stanford or Berkeley, but I'm Not a Big Fan.

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Most of my co authors are not at stamford, which seems to a bramarin rule. Mostly i have overlapped with them physically at one point or another. The initial spark or idea is much more effectively generated in person. If you can do it, why can't ter companies do the same? Lookhe so let's take ivan and zaji lynn, from a high state university. First met them physically. I sat in zagie's office for half an hour. We kind of got excited about a research idea. That was the critical meeting point. And after talking to him, i thought thise, this gosem's great, as a really interesting...

What might the electrification of factories teach us about how quickly we’ll adapt to remote work? What gives American companies an edge over their competitors on the international stage? What value do management consultants really provide? Stanford professor Nick Bloom’s research studies how management practices, productivity techniques, and uncertainty shape outcomes across companies and countries.

He joined Tyler for a conversation about which areas of science are making progress, the factors that have made research more expensive, why government should invest more in R&D, how lean management transformed manufacturing, how India’s congested legal system inhibits economic development, the effects of technology on Scottish football hooliganism, why firms thrive in China, how weak legal systems incentivize nepotism, why he’s not worried about the effects of remote work on American productivity (in the short-term), the drawbacks of elite graduate programs, how his first “academic love” shapes his work today, the benefits of working with co-authors, why he prefers periodicals and podcasts to reading books, and more.

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Recorded July 13th, 2020 Other ways to connect

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