Kathryn L. Shaw is the Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
Previously, she was the Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Economics at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.
In early work, she (and her co-authors) use production-level data from firms in the steel industry to model the effects of alternative management strategies on productivity.
[3] Recently, she has turned to studying the performance gains from new information technologies and the changes in management strategy towards product customization that enhance returns to investment.
In recent work, Shaw and her co-authors have discovered that a good boss can significantly increase the output of subordinates.