Very happy to see this paper in (online) print. Together with Michael Christensen, @raffasadun.bsky.social , @nickbloom.bsky.social and Jan Rivkin, we interviewed hundreds of CEOs to measure how they make business strategy. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...

📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩 This will be so exciting!!!🥳 🔗https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-09-05/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2025 @raffasadun.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social …

Deadline is approaching! Send us your best work by September 1st 2025.

The call for papers for the next @nber.org Organizational Economics Working Group is up! We will meet in Cambridge, MA on November 13 and 14 2025. Please submit your paper by September 1st 2025 at: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

📢 Stiamo cercando 1 Research Associate per un'esperienza di lavoro pre-doc all'#EvaluationLab del #FondoRepubblicaDigitale. 👉 www.fondorepubblicadigitale.it/posizioni_ap... cc: @raffasadun.bsky.social @barbarabiasi.com @francedrago.bsky.social

Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.

Just out: our new NBER working paper explores what happens when management is treated like a technology—something that spreads across firms, boosts productivity, and lowers the cost of change.

📢@cepr.org WE_ARE & EEA #womenineconomics committee announce joint virtual session: Speaker: @raffasadun.bsky.social Topic: Navigating Large Teams & Interdisciplinary Boundaries 🗓️Mon, June 9 @ 17:15 CEST ℹ️https://bit.ly/44YA1RA @womeninecon.bsky.social @ukwen.bsky.social @isweconomics.bsky.social

🚨 We’re hiring! The Digital Reskilling Lab at Harvard is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our research on workforce development, labor markets and AI. Apply here 👉 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14918 #EconJobs #Postdoc #FutureOfWork #AI #LaborEconomics #Harvard

📣 New paper drop! Why do some employees take up training and others don’t, even when the programs are the same? Surprisingly, the answer isn’t HR policy—it’s middle managers. 🧵

Another excellent NBER Org meeting wrapped up, and it's available on YouTube!! www.nber.org/conferences/... @raffasadun.bsky.social and @andreaprat.bsky.social nailing the program and discussants yet again. Love this group! Thanks to all and looking forward to seeing old friends and new faces soon

Looking forward to the next @nber.org Organizational Economics Working Group meeting on April 10/11, coorganized with @andreaprat.bsky.social. We have a great line-up of new research papers in Org Econ! Program and livestream link: www.nber.org/conferences/...

Excited for the NBER ORG meeting this week! Thanks Raffaella Sadun & Andrea Prat for leading this forward-thinking group exploring fascinating topics, including AI and labor markets. Enjoyed discussing Anna’s paper on class gaps last fall—delighted to return!

If you'd like to teach about the new economics of supply networks and their fragility this spring (see thread below for an application), here's a short list of broadly accessible resources you might find useful.

"deep expertise combined with the social skills and self-awareness to know your own weaknesses is a winning combination in the AI-fueled labor market of the future" - cool new results AI's contribution to problem-solving forklightning.substack.com/p/ai-human-t...

[email protected], @raffasadun.bsky.social, et al study 776 P&G employees & find large effects of #AI on collaboration & expertise: individuals w/ AI match the performance of teams without AI, produce more balanced solutions, & report positive emotions on the job papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

V nice paper, cited in my new book (along with much more about what economic statistics are missing these) 🙂: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper “Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It” just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org 💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵A thread 1/7

📢 Call for papers: 📢 @cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education (co-organized with Rick Hanushek) 5-6 Sept 2025, Munich Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social 👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202... Submission deadline: 18 May 2025 Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

Deadline for submission for the NBER Organizational Economics Working Group is tomorrow, send us your best work!

One of the most beautiful strategy/org stories ever, told by the very protagonist. Strongly recommend this episode of acquired with Morris Chang. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Apply by 6-Feb: NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp, July 11-17 With support from Open Philanthropy: - classes: Pierre Azoulay, Kevin Bryan, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me - panel: Matt Clancy, Dylan Matthews, Caleb Watney - keynotes: Glenn Hubbard & Ronnie Chatterji

New #POIDWorkingPaper, by @raffasadun.bsky.social & co-authors, analysing new metrics of digital usage that leverage telemetry data collected by Microsoft during operating system updates across 40 million Windows devices in US households poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...

We can choose whether AI replaces us or empowers us. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

For those who want to jump to the frontier in select areas of economics, the AEA has posted the webcasts of this year’s continuing lectures. Thanks much to @lawrencekatz.bsky.social for his leadership and vision in assembling these lectures. www.aeaweb.org/conference/w...

CEOs are vital for firm productivity, yet poorer countries lack "leader" CEOs, causing mismatches that cut productivity by 20 percent. Policies to address mismatches can boost growth, from Dahlstrand, László, Schweiger, Bandiera, Prat, and Sadun https://www.nber.org/papers/w33324

🚨 We are hosting the 1st IZA PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics in Bonn (June 12-13, 2025)🚨 🗣️ Keynotes by @sydneecaldwell.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) and Chris Roth (U Cologne) 👉 Submissions (Jan 31) conference.iza.org/PhD_LaborBeh... Please share and apply!

The Organization of Firms Across Countries by Nick Bloom & Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen (2009)

The call for papers for the NBER Organizational Economics Working group (April 10-11 2025) is out! If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it to this link by 11:59 pm ET on February 14, 2025: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b... Pls retweet (or reskeet?)

Re-posting this call for applications targeting PhD students and early career researchers (PhDs 2014 or later) doing research on the fiscal and economic effects of three productivity policies: R&D, permitting, and immigration. Applications due at midnight on Thurs January 16.

I am hiring a predoctoral fellow to work on projects in development, organizational and personnel economics. Position based at Bocconi University, Milan. Please share and/or apply! Details here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k7lvy...

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Very interesting interview with @sendhil.bsky.social on AI. Fresh perspective on several topics, including value of AI in education. youtu.be/z_svj3NP968

I would LOVE to hire someone awesome to lead UKRI’s work on data and how we use it to understand the R&D system. Great opportunity for someone with strong data skills who cares about technology, research and progress! t.co/pItvynXWfn

If you do any work on organizations, management, and/or productivity, definitely sign up to this list. EMC is one of best econ communities out there.

I‘m thrilled to be part of this year‘s Empirical Management Conference and share my work on workplace hostility (joint w/ @clemvaneff.bsky.social) with this community!

Great conference! Tomorrow, I'll talk about "The Rise of Industrial AI in America", which is joint empirical work with @kmcelheran.bsky.social, @erikbryn.bsky.social and Zachary Kroff on the productivity effect of AI in US manufacturing.

Once again, a great programme at the Empirical Management Conference. Tomorrow, @paulmizen.bsky.social will present our paper on the many innovations well-managed firms made to overcome the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, and how this has shaped their post-pandemic working practices.

Tomorrow, my wonderful coauthor, Yue Qiu, presents our paper with Paolo Volpin -- M&A and Workplace Safety: Evidence from Mines.

Attention: PhD students and early-career researchers interested in the fiscal and economic effects of productivity policies -- particularly R&D, immigration, and infrastructure permitting. Consider applying to this Sloan Foundation NBER fellowship: www.nber.org/graduate-fel...

The 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference has just started! We have a great line up of presenters and papers: www.hbs.edu/faculty/rese... Just started a list of participants of current and past editions, ping me if you want to be added.

Economists are not prepared for the impact of the demographic cliff. Enrollments are already down in aggregate, they are going to fall more, and it looks like maybe professor demand is already responding

📢Just released: Results of PIAAC round 2⃣, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies📝 11 years after round 1⃣, we learn how adults in 31 countries perform in literacy, numeracy + problem-solving How does your country do? 👉https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac.html

Really lovely. The one liner: “beware of the Super Chickens”

New org econ conference in Hong Kong, see details below: x.com/fahnmatthias...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Does job training reduce workers’ automation risk? And does its effectiveness vary by country, gender, or training type? We study these questions in a new WP (w/ Oliver Falck, Mo Guo @christinalanger.bsky.social & @lindlacher.bsky.social). #EconSky CESifo WP: bit.ly/3D4CDS5 🧵 👇

This paper with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg has been a labor of love and I am so happy to release it nber.org/papers/w31757 (I'll make this thread different for the dual #twittersky peeps)

I have an op-ed in the NYT today about how to reduce crime. The key idea, based on decades of strong research evidence: focus on increasing the probability of getting caught, not the punishment. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...