Management Advice for India - Is It Worthless?

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Inojustan given the high returns to management. Advice to india and other emerging economies, what's the main constraint that prevents that from being scaled up much more? Why don't those consultants just transform those management practices and productivity levels? Yes, a great question. I think the biggest, one of the major constraints india on no besse, jus been there a lot, and one of the huge constraints sas the legal system. As it sounds odd, but i'll just go through it. The actual law as it's written down in the statute book is, you know, butit is good. There's no obvious issues with it, at least as you know...

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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