Happiness - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It

have to be this way? How could we make it better?" You Might Also Like: When Your Passion Works Against You More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

General Management - Faculty & Research

Impact Investing Goes to Sea." Harvard Business School Case 325-013, October 2024. More Publications In the News 23 Oct 2024 Trey Gowdy When Politics Disrupts Our Happiness Re: Arthur Brooks 22 Oct 2024 Harvard Gazette National Academy of... View Details

07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

don't forgive that." Ironically, a personal failure often occurs because an entrepreneur is trying too hard to avoid an enterprise failure. Trying to keep the venture capitalists happy and bankruptcy at bay, the founder or CEO will... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

we even talk about romantic relationships, I want to understand more about you and what makes you happy. So think about a person in your life who genuinely makes you happy when you're around them. It could be a friend or family member, it... View Details

2011
Book

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer

The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine... View Details

Citation

Find at Harvard

Purchase

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

childhood paper route. “What I’ve learned is that you don’t have all the answers. You take the info you have within the time frame given, and you make the best decision you can, even if it isn’t always right,” he says. “It’s fun to be in the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

collaboration. 1. Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead. Self-improvement doesn't need to be painful. Rather than set yet another gym goal, look inward, retrain your brain, and get outside, says Hirotaka Takeuchi. 2. More Proof That Money... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

2014
Article

Prosocial Spending and Happiness: Using Money to Benefit Others Pays Off

By: Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lara B. Aknin and Michael I. Norton

While a great deal of research has shown that people with more money are somewhat happier than people with less money, our research demonstrates that how people spend their money also matters for their happiness. In particular, both correlational and... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Well-being; Happiness; Money; Spending; Welfare; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

Citation

Find at Harvard

Read Now

Web

Skydeck - Alumni

Hotel Scarface , and the lasting allure of 1980s Miami Living the Quantitative Life What Paul Grana (MBA 2009) has learned from eight years of personal data tracking Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation Author and former Walmart executive... View Details

Web

Faculty & Research - Health Care

News When Politics Disrupts Our Happiness Re: Arthur Brooks 23 Oct 2024 | Trey Gowdy National Academy of Medicine Elects 12 from Harvard Re: Leemore Dafny 22 Oct 2024 | Harvard Gazette Physicians Can Help Cut Costs. They Just Need the... View Details

26 Nov 2018
Book

Make Your Employees Feel Psychologically Safe

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

chain, in which case that manager will likely be happy to consider language that you might propose regarding your contributions. Avoid a statement that you are leaving to pursue other interests or spend more time with family; these are... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Sep 2023
News

Solving for Z

happy with and what more needs to be done to make Apollo a better and more attractive place to work. “You’ve got to co-create your culture,” he says. “And how do you do that? You ask for feedback. So I position myself as the walking... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

“Difference is an acquired preference,” a colleague once told me. The statement seemed rather strange to me at first. Upon reflection, though, I understood what my colleague was saying: Difference is uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and sometimes even unsafe. Whether it is... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Groups and Teams (37) Growth Management (12) Growth and Development Strategy (40) Growth and Development (16) Happiness (29) Health Care and Treatment (96) Health Disorders (3) Health Pandemics (32) Health Testing and Trials (8) Health... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

02 Nov 2023
News

Seeding Startups

readily admits now, was the extensive research necessary to validate his idea. He quickly discovered that the demand simply wasn’t there. “We were too early,” he says. The story of TeamOn Systems, the email-technology company Nadkarni founded in 1999, has a View Details

Keywords: April White

Web

Myth Busting: Financial Aid for 2+2 Students - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Call Ryan Serhant: How to Manage Your Time for Happiness Real estate entrepreneur, television star, husband, and father Ryan Serhant is incredibly busy and successful. He starts his days at 4 a.m. and often doesn’t end them until 11 p.m.... View Details