Executive Masterclass

How CEOs Should Manage Their Time

An HBR Executive Masterclass with Nitin Nohria.

May 28, 2025

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Time is a CEO’s most precious—and most limited—resource. And yet a study of 30 CEOs revealed surprising gaps between where leaders think they spend their time and where they actually do. Precious little time was devoted to customers or frontline employees, and far more to meetings, investors, and board members.

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