Time management is essential for an Executive. As Peter Drucker puts it, “Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.” Our goal is to go beyond selective case studies and collect systematic evidence on how corporate leaders organize their working time, how this is determined by the constraints faced by the firm and how it affects the performance of their firms. Our dataset will also help individual leaders to benchmark their time management against that of their peers, nationally and globally. Ultimately, the Time Use Survey is a simple tool that allows top corporate leaders to align their use of time with their growth strategies.
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A Survey of How 1,000 CEOs Spend Their Day Reveals What Makes Leaders Successful
New research uses survey data from over 1,000 CEOs across six countries and the financial performance of their companies to answer questions about CEO effectiveness. The evidence suggests that hands-on managerial CEOs are, on average, less effective [...]
The Executive Time Use Project What do CEOs do all day?
Markerplace's Sally Herships interviewed Professor Andrea Prat from Columbia University, who is one of the principal investigator of STICERD's Executive Time Use Project. In the article from November 10th, Prat points out that CEOs spend [...]
Marketplace What do CEOs do all day?
Corporate titans, leaders of Fortune 500 companies, wearers of starched white shirts, winners of enormous paychecks and occupiers of corner offices with imposing black desks and gleaming glass views. It's easy to conjure images of [...]
Wall Street Journal Do CEOs of Family-Owned Businesses Work Less?
What's the difference between a family firm and a regular business? According to one new study, an empty corner office. Professors at Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics and Columbia University's business school [...]
Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Two years ago, the World Management Survey on organizational leadership reported that firms led by family CEOs (managers related to the family owning the business) are often managed badly, particularly those where a first-born son [...]
Ideas for India What do Indian CEOs do?
While the Indian manufacturing sector has experienced rapid growth since the early 1990s, it is characterised by large productivity differences across firms and presence of several low productivity firms that use poor managerial practices. This [...]