Management oftentimes can be a difficult and precise artform. How does leadership at a company decide how the organization should be structured? What divisions should be created? And how will the inevitable problems that arise be handled?

John Roberts, a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor, is one of the leading thinkers on organizational economics and has written numerous books on the subject like The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth.

John and Greg discuss how the discipline of organizational economics came to be, why some organizational structures are more effective than others, and why the transmission of knowledge from academic to management can be tricky.

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