About

Bob gets a lot done and does it well. Bob’s best-selling book Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours provided readers with practical solutions to help them save time while adding value to their jobs and lives overall. Now, let Bob help you and your team or organization do the same by having him come to you to provide his productivity classes or talks.

​While not working with companies to help them improve productivity and make sure employees achieve and surpass their goals, Bob is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He works with executives and leaders of all types to not only learn about productivity but how to take instant steps to improving their work and family lives.

Bob’s extensive experience in business, government and journalism includes just some of the following:

• Executive chairman of MFS Investment Management from 2004 to 2011; during this period, the assets of MFS more than doubled from a starting point of $130 billion.
• Chairman of the SEC's Advisory Committee on Financial Reporting in 2007-2008
• Secretary of Economic Affairs under Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
• Leading Fidelity Investments from 1987 through 2001. Bob served in various positions at Fidelity Investments. During his tenure as President of Fidelity Management and Research, from 1997 thru 2001, the assets of the Fidelity Funds rose from $500 billion to $900 billion.

Bob has taught at Georgetown and NYU as well as Harvard and MIT. Bob is an outside director of Nielsen, and AMC (a second-tier subsidiary of the World Bank). He is also on the governing board of several non-profit organizations. He received the 2011 Fund Action Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the mutual fund industry.
 
Bob graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, and obtained a law degree from Yale Law School where he was a member of the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal. He also received a doctorate from Yale Law School for a book he wrote on state enterprises in Africa.
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