Author Abstract
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.
Paper Information
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- Working Paper Publication Date: September 2017
- HBS Working Paper Number: HBS Working Paper #18-025
- Faculty Unit(s): Strategy