[svcphr]

He's referring to research by Nick Bloom, an economist at Stanford. They've worked together.

Ctrl-F management on his research page (https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/research). In one paper, they randomly assign consulting services from a management consultancy to manufacturing plants in India and found a 17% increase in productivity.

[alkibiades]

not sure that means it generalizes to all countries or types of business

[svcphr]

Oh, definitely not! As with all RCTs, gotta worry about generalizability.

He has a lot of other work showing correlations between management and productivity at much more scale, but this was the one attempt (that I know of) trying to establish something more causal