CEO Time Use - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

the meeting starts, it's a signal that the person in charge hasn't laid the groundwork for a productive use of time. There should be adequate time in advance for everyone to prepare for a thoughtful... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

Enlist ‘witnesses’ to report or handle harassment Companies should openly encourage people to speak up when they notice a problem. “There are times when plenty of people know about it, but don’t do anything about it, maybe because they... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

How Patient Should We Be In Waiting for the Tech Productivity Dividend? Respondents to this month’s column cited a number of factors accounting for the fact that there is no discernable increase in the rate of improvement in human productivity in the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

short-term price volatility of U.S. Treasury bonds has been about 5.5 percent per year in real terms—that is, after correcting for inflation. This volatility is certainly small when we compare it to the volatility of stock returns, which has been about three View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

threaten our world competitiveness. It may actually help us find ways to be more productive." Susan Seitel agreed, saying "there are ways to have both and we have proof. The country's dramatically increasing output comes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

Aligning Strategy and Sales, to give us a glimpse into how it's done. Working Knowledge: Why is it so important for companies to create a stronger connection between their strategic priorities and their go-to-market initiatives? How... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

25 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

efforts they could have a powerful collective impact on the country. By the time of the BEE Commission Charnley found herself at the top of the pyramid, but she had come from the bottom, growing up in Elsies River—an Afrikaans-speaking,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

geographically specific reason, the researchers compared the major drought years of 1930, 1934, and 1936 with non-drought years, 1931 and 1935, in the same geographical areas. They looked at firm-level unionization data from the US... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Jul 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

decision-making and even to the future and viability of capitalism. One debate concerned the primacy of profit as a goal. Deaver Brown led this argument by saying, "Profit is the only legitimate goal of a corporation ," pointing out that it serves many... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

did. Most teaching around being a successful negotiator focuses on preparations before discussions start, and on strategies during the talks. The problem: We don't spend nearly enough time after the negotiations to grade our performance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

all the previous years combined. Investment initiatives are around participating in the information flow. We [at Accel] are interested in companies that help us understand how to structure information, communicate, categorize some of that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher intensity of competition between... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

30 Jan 2006
HBS Case

The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

perspective. "I'd never actually heard a product speak," he recalls. "It was like listening to a can of Coca-Cola explain how it would like to be marketed." That initial encounter inspired Deighton to write "Marketing James Patterson," a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

07 Jan 2002
What Do You Think?

Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?

Internet and credit or debit cards. The rapid accumulation of information in data warehouses, as reflected in the value of EMC stock (at least up to a year ago), was testimony to this, regardless of whether very many organizations had figured out how to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

mid-November, the active waiting list for a kidney stood at 72,845. Once an organ is available, there can be thousands of compatible recipients queuing up. In the time since the US Congress passed the... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

regulators should pursue to meet these ends, and ultimately achieve a more efficient market in small business lending. Doing so will help small businesses focus more of their time doing what they do best: growing their business, creating... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

(retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. View Details