Happiness - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

way to teach leadership. There are currently as many ways to teach the topic as there are definitions of it (Rost, 1991), each proponent as enthusiastic as the next about his or her favored approach. And finally, we have learned that most experienced teachers are not... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

shareholders' meeting in 2004 in Leipzig. While rival carmakers such as Ferrari, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, and Lamborghini have been happy to locate where labor costs are cheaper, Porsche wanted to ensure its "Made in Germany"... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

however, that will never change. The best we can do is learn to understand our own mind and gradually improving our ability to get what we want—and be happy with what we get. Sidebar: Negotiation Bargaining Styles Where do you fit?... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

behavior—which is a stereotype—one of the things we can do is ask, "How am I really going to be perceived if I don't negotiate?" If you don't negotiate for your salary, they walk away happy that they paid you less but wonder why... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

curation—showing competitors' prices—than would a company whose products and services are easier to evaluate. Call it enlightened self-interest. I don't think we can expect manufacturers and retailers to change in ways that will harm profits, even if it benefits... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

their ads in the future? Teixeira notes that there is already some evidence of pulsing in ads, as in the award-winning "The Happiness Factory" for Coca-Cola, and various automobile commercials that briefly show the brand logo of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

findings. Another finding with technological implications is that storing and showing participants their best previous solution didn’t lead to better results. “There’s that interesting question of how much we are captives of our own past selves,” Lazer says. “We come... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

temptation faced by our global audiences who were eager to watch the film as soon as it was released in India," case protagonist Rohit Sharma, head of international sales and distribution at Fox Star, says in the case. Happy Ending... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

21 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 21

and negative economic growth are experienced, with losses having more than twice as much impact on individual happiness as compared to equivalent gains. We use Gallup World Poll data drawn from 151 countries, Behavioral Risk Factor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

proposition that all nonprofit organizations, indeed all SMDOs, should be high-performing. Q: Nonprofit boards must have effective relationships with their CEOs, but what role do board leaders have in fostering those relations? Where can things go wrong? A: To borrow... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

Traditional wisdom teaches that brands win market share by offering a wide variety of products, increasing the chance of appealing to a wider variety of customers. But how happy are you when trying to find a head cold remedy at the... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

On It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep on Subjective Preference-Based Choice, forthcoming in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Sleeping on a decision may not lead to a happy outcome. ©iStock/vadimguzhva In order to test their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005) Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

collaborative 65 percent (versus 42 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be efficient 74 percent (versus 51 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be effective The happy result for BCG was that... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

development. The reformers' challenge has been to demonstrate that corporate attention to human misery is perfectly consistent with maximizing wealth: that there is, in the words of United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan, "a View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

members of the collective, Hill rejects the idea that they should be chosen in order to conform to a freeform type of corporate structure, a "one big happy family" mentality. People in organizations of collective genius, she insists, need... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

reputational gains from the agreement for the city, “We were worldwide news. In that way it worked out really well.” But she acknowledged that there were also skeptical points of view. “The only immediate result was the tax agreement, which we were really View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Lessons from Chinese Companies’ Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

24 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

Depression, a time when markets were functioning poorly. We were happy to see an approach like this included in the administration's white paper. Q: What are the drawbacks of your proposal? A: One concern is that if we are going to rely... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

alike: (1) securing the future through innovation strategies suitable for an emerging "white coat economy" that is discovery-based; (2) pursuing happiness by addressing the connection between work and family life and reinventing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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