Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. By the time they arrive in my classroom, they are two days into the fall term, and I can already see that some of them are barely keeping their heads above water. Covey’s time management matrix is a good tool for this.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

After all, hiring others to work under you is costly, and coordinating them takes up your time and theirs. The upshot often is managers doing too much themselves. So in a recent study my coauthor, Luis Garicano, and I decided to quantify the returns of delegation. The point of delegating is to economize with your time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

The power of focused attention to craft a strategy or discuss an especially challenging issue with videoconference is much more efficient for everyone involved. 60% of the people in the same study indicated that being able to see others and share documents live made the discussion more open. Engagement and Understanding Improve.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our large-scale empirical study provides strong evidence of the constraining role of investors and financial markets in shaping the innovation choices of firms. Financial markets tend to punish the digital leaders in this group for forays that are necessarily complex strategies whose benefits are realized over longer periods of time.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2018

We’ve used this technology to study the behaviors of tens of thousands of managers in several large companies and found some consistent patterns. This article outlines two common signals that manager work habits unintentionally send to their teams, their impact, and recommendations for lessening unintended consequences.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

It’s important for all professionals to use their time efficiently. That causes its own problems — one study showed the average employee attends a whopping 62 meetings per month — but logistically, it’s not that much of a problem.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. You’re hardly alone.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Much of the current thinking about new service-delivery models is based on the notion that cost and efficiency of care delivery can be enhanced by directing more patients to primary care. Less Time, Better Care. As we’ve argued, the solution is for them to spend less time with their providers. Provider workload.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

In a famous study by Ronald Burt , people who made efforts to improve their networks were 42%–74% more likely to be promoted than those who didn’t. Like old contacts, it’s a more time-efficient way to connect, since there’s an intermediary you both share. Networks matter for career success.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

A classic 1998 Stanford University study accurately predicted that by 2020 advances in technology will have eliminated many lower to mid-level jobs. These advances will have also significantly increased the workload of more senior managers, keeping them working around the clock.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. Not only does working from home eliminate your commute, which for most people is “total wasted time,” but it also “allows you to be more focused and efficient.”

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