
	Thursday, April 20
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Outside Options and Worker Motivation Matthias Fahn, Johannes Kepler University Linz Alexander Ahammer, Johannes Kepler University Linz Flora Stiftinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz Discussant: Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University and NBER
9:45 am	Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Monitoring Practices Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt Matthias Heinz, University of Cologne Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich Nick Zubanov, Goethe University Frankfurt Discussant: Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:50 am	Why Small Firms Fail to Adopt Profitable Opportunities Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Sean Higgins, Northwestern University Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Waldo Ojeda, The City University of New York Discussant: Miriam Bruhn, The World Bank
11:35 am	Daddy's Girl: Daughters, Managerial Decisions, and Gender Inequality Maddalena Ronchi, Kellogg School of Management Nina Smith, Aarhus University Discussant: Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch - Skyline ABC Room
1:30 pm	Cultural Homophily and Collaboration in Superstar Teams (slides) Gabor Bekes, Central European University Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University Discussant: Erik Snowberg, University of Utah and NBER
2:15 pm	Organizational Responses to Product Cycles Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University Nicolas Torres, Good Business Lab Discussant: Kate S. Whitefoot, Carnegie Mellon University
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Organizational and Economic Obstacles to Automation: A Cautionary Tale from AT&T in the Twentieth Century (slides) James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER Discussant: James Bessen, Boston University
	The next session will not be livestreamed.
4:00 pm	Guest Speaker: Larry Culp, CEO of General Electric
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta)
	Friday, April 21
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Shaping Institutions William Fuchs, UT Austin and Universidad Carlos III Madrid Satoshi Fukuda, Bocconi University Discussant: Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:45 am	Loyalty in Tournaments Wouter Dessein, Columbia University Luis Garicano, London School of Economics Discussant: Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:50 am	Subjective versus Objective Incentives and Employee Productivity Christina L. Brown, University of Chicago Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College Discussant: Daniela Scur, Cornell University
11:35 am	Do Non-Monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals Melisa Sayli, University of Surrey Giuseppe Moscelli, University of Surrey Jo Blanden, University of Surrey Chris Bojke, University of Leeds Marco Mello, University of Surrey Discussant: Ambar La Forgia, University of California, Berkeley
12:20 pm	Working Lunch and Guest Speaker: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:30 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Robert Akerlof, University of Warwick
Shan Aman-Rana, University of Virginia
Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Daniel V. Barron, Northwestern University
Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Gabor Bekes, Central European University
Karen Bernhardt-Walther, York University
James Bessen, Boston University
Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Renee Bowen, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Christina L. Brown, University of Chicago
Miriam Bruhn, The World Bank
Chen Cheng, Johns Hopkins University
David J. Cooper, University of Iowa
Decio Coviello, HEC Montreal
Larry Culp, General Electric
Rahul Deb, University of Toronto
Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Wouter Dessein, Columbia University
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
Evgenii Fadeev, Duke University
Matthias Fahn, Johannes Kepler University Linz
James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
Anne E. Fitzpatrick, The Ohio State University
Silke J. Forbes, Tufts University
Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt
William Fuchs, UT Austin and Universidad Carlos III Madrid
Satoshi Fukuda, Bocconi University
Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
Luis Garicano, London School of Economics
Robert S. Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER

Alex X. He, University of Maryland
Holger Herz, University of Fribourg
Sean Higgins, Northwestern University
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Enrique Ide, IESE Business School
Jacob Kohlhepp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ambar La Forgia, University of California, Berkeley
Ian Larkin, University of California, Los Angeles
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jin Li, University of Hong Kong
Marco Mello, University of Surrey
Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University and NBER
Giuseppe Moscelli, University of Surrey
Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Northwestern University
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER
Waldo Ojeda, The City University of New York
Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER
Michael Raith, University of Rochester
Maddalena Ronchi, Kellogg School of Management
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Richard Saouma, Michigan State University
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Erik Snowberg, University of Utah and NBER
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University
Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER
Marta Troya-Martinez, New Economic School
Silvia Vannutelli, Northwestern University and NBER
Birger Wernerfelt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kate S. Whitefoot, Carnegie Mellon University
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Nick Zubanov, Goethe University Frankfurt