Happiness - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer

I need to get on with my presentation, getting checked out and so forth. But, I'm a little happy too, because now I have something to talk about. And so I'm holding this little story in my back pocket waiting for the appropriate time in... View Details

Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

40 years. "These are people entering their retirement years very engaged,"Emerson says. "They are not going to be happy just writing a check andgoing to the annual dinner." Finally, says Grossman, there's... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

31 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management

after graduation have come to HBS with prior experience. That said, firms that have historically been open to career-switchers have often been incredibly happy with their decision and found career-switchers to be incredible “long-term... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

CEO of Furman Selz, growing the company more than tenfold. He also creates a happy and abundant family life, though he never forgets what it means to struggle. At age 60, he is reminded of his painful past when a family secret emerges... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

says Rivkin, "but they don't result in positive, lasting improvements to the system." Superintendents are happy with this sort of interaction, the survey showed, and 80 percent would welcome more collaboration, with a majority... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

Blog

How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America

often helped to cement valuable relationships with case protagonists. "These executives have become our friends and are often happy to attend HBS admissions or alumni events. They want to help HBS," explained Cal. That said, the team... View Details

July 2024
Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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Educators

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

earner happy to have the job ; and (2) wastage (that) seems to abound in the cavernous stores ." Cheri Thomas cited saturation of its markets, especially in the United States, as a concern, adding that "Walmart's fixation on low... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

each chain." Petsch agreed. "At Sears, we have an increasing number of proprietary brands," Petsch said. Overton said the mergers will have a major effect on the suppliers of department stores' real estate—the malls. JC Penney, for example, is not... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

11 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

check myself the entire time to be happy for my friends when they were getting consulting offers or more structured opportunities much earlier,” she shared. “We were not looking at the same kind of opportunities and our timelines were... View Details

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52998 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Buying Time Promotes Happiness By: Whillans, Ashley V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, Rene... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Nov 2017
News

How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team

everybody has their own ways to cope, but by time I pull into my driveway I'm happy and ready to go. What we've done differently in this office—because we've had some pretty historic losings. I'm gonna say office. I'm sitting in Camden,... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Your Own Medicine

what a friend of mine called a 'collage career'—never a boss, never a full-time job—which is really cool." And he would have been happy doing that for a while, but then Tracy Seckler called, and he saw a chance to heal again. "I said,... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

A: It was the happy confluence of several factors. It began in 2003 when some of my large-sample empirical research with [University of Michigan professor] Jim Hines led me to think harder about moves that several firms, including Stanley... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees

community and when these groups are appropriately resourced to host events and programs it highlights an organization’s commitment to their LGBTQ+ employees. At some companies, ERGs serve as foundational aspects of the firms’ professional ecosystems. For Justin... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Sep 2019
News

Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse

I live in the Bay area. I love to get out and run, and bike, and hike, and I think that those are kind of the real kind of head-clearing opportunities and yeah I have a lot of revelations in long showers. My wife isn't super happy about,... View Details

04 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

because of national security, and Apple can easily open up the storage closet (or in this case, the cloud service) and give it to them, they’re happy to do so. But the FBI is asking them to write a specific code to unlock their... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology

04 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Finding Your Creative Outlet on Campus

“When people think HBS, they think buttoned-up,” Bhargav said. “It’s often this very corporate image. But in Love@HBS and Black@HBS, the people we featured were sharing pretty radical concepts and breaking molds. They were happy to share... View Details

15 Sep 2016
News

The Burning Man Project

sort of take us through a day at Burning Man, particularly the day that the man actually burns? Raiser: Burn day is really kind of our New Year's Eve. So people all throughout the day will greet you with happy burn day. And it's this... View Details

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

practices. "From a business school point of view, there's a contradiction where the art market seems illogical or strange because it turns on its head some of the rules of competition," Khaire said. "In many cases, investors are View Details

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