Podcasts Education Self-Improvement Conversations with Tyler Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress

Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, noon

What might the electrification of factories teach us about how quickly we\u2019ll 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s not worried about the effects of remote work on American productivity (in the short-term), the drawbacks of elite graduate programs, how his first \u201cacademic love\u201d 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

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