These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
Management practice acts exactly as a new technology might in giving companies competitive advantage—and there is a right way and a wrong way to do things, says a new study by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues.
Content: Article | Authors: Michael Blanding, Raffaella Sadun | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subjects: Best Practices, Management
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
A CEO’s schedule is especially important to a firm’s financial success, which raises a few questions: What do they do all day? Can they be more efficient time managers? HBS professor Raffaella Sadun and colleagues set out to find some answers.
Content: Article | Authors: Michael Blanding, Raffaella Sadun | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subject: Corporate Governance
What Do CEOs Do?
Abstract:
We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs’ time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm’s priorities as well as the presence of governance issues. We follow 94 CEOs of 600 top Italian firms over a pre-specified week and record the time devoted each … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Andrea Prat, Luigi Guiso, Oriana Bandiera, Raffaella Sadun | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS)” | Subject: Corporate Governance
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research finds that the answer often lies in the technology that a company deploys.
Content: Article | Authors: Carmen Nobel, Raffaella Sadun | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior