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March 22, 2024
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01 Sep 2023
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End Game

in, it’s really hard to maintain any values that aren’t focused on earning profits for outside investors.” It’s especially difficult in the absence of the charismatic leader, once they retire or hand over ownership. Part of the problem is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

2019
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Preferences for Experienced Versus Remembered Happiness

By: Cassie Mogilner and Michael I. Norton

Consider two types of happiness: one experienced on a moment-to-moment basis, the other a reflective evaluation where people feel happy looking back. Though researchers have measured and argued the merits of each, we inquired into which happiness people say they want.... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Life Satisfaction; Experience; Retrospective; Time; Happiness; Satisfaction; Welfare; Perception

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October 2001
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Liability Problems

By: Robert S. Kaplan

This case provides three examples of the recognition and measurement of liabilities. The first focuses on recognizing when employees have rendered services for which future period benefits have been earned, that is, whether unused vacation, sick, and personal days at... View Details

Keywords: Cash; Annuities; Interest Rates; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Problems and Challenges; Value

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Every Large Point Set Contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon

By: Zachary Abel, Brad Ballinger, Prosenjit Bose, Sébastien Collette, Vida Dujmović, Ferran Hurtado, Scott Duke Kominers, Stefan Langerman, Attila Pór and David Wood

We prove the following generalised empty pentagon theorem for every integer ℓ ≥ 2, every sufficiently large set of points in the plane contains ℓ collinear points or an empty pentagon. As an application, we settle the next open case of the “big line or big clique”... View Details

Keywords: Erdős-Szekeres Theorem; Happy End Problem; Big Line Or Big Clique Conjecture; Empty Quadrilateral; Empty Pentagon; Empty Hexagon

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16 Dec 2009
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The End of Chimerica

Keywords: by Niall Ferguson & Moritz Schularick

2013
Book

Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending

By: Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton

If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of... View Details

Keywords: Happiness; Spending; Personal Finance

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19 Dec 2013
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How Money Affects Happiness

28 Jul 2022
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How to Be Happy in a Recession

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Social Recycling Transforms Unwanted Goods into Happiness

By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Cait Lamberton, Rebecca Walker Reczek and Michael I. Norton

Consumers are often surrounded by resources that once offered meaning or happiness but that have lost this subjective value over time—even as they retain their objective utility. We explore the potential for social recycling—disposing of used goods by allowing other... View Details

Keywords: Disposition; Well-being; Prosocial Behavior; Pro-environmental Behavior; Happiness; Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Environmental Sustainability

March 24, 2020
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Delayed Negative Effects of Prosocial Spending on Happiness

By: Armin Falk and Thomas Graeber

Does prosocial behavior promote happiness? We test this longstanding hypothesis in a behavioral experiment that extends the scope of previous research. In our Saving a Life paradigm, every participant either saved one human life in expectation by triggering a targeted... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Altruism; Happiness; Well-being; Spending; Behavior

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30 May 2013
Blog Post

So this is the end

part of theirs, and it’s surreal to know that I won’t have a voice during the next phases of OPENPediatrics or at the next department happy hour. Endings have gotten easier as I have gotten older, as I’ve... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

12 Apr 2013
News

The Secret to Happiness at Work: Less Duration, More Intensity

04 Feb 2014
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How Microsoft’s Global Search Ended at Home

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

pensions, college savings, IRAs, and 401(k)s? We have yet to see the answers to these questions. The likelihood is that if the investments are laundered, so to speak, through a big bank that pretends to impose some prudence in management on the hedge funds in which... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

his day. Free refills, finding $5 in a coat pocket, that sort of thing. The blog, called 1000 Awesome Things started garnering a huge following and turned into a series of successful books. Last year, Neil released The Happiness Equation,... View Details

12 Dec 2021
News

Kominers’s Conundrums: Houston, We Have a Cube-Shaped Problem

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

quick: By the end of this year, McDonald’s expects mobile ordering to be available at all its 14,000 locations in the United States, and the self-service kiosks in 2,500 locations. Karavites had seen these technologies previewed at... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
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Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles?

By: Rawi E. Abdelal

Describes Russia's troubled economic transition since 1991, highlights the problem of institutional development, and surveys the challenges President Vladimir Putin faced in 2000. The first section provides a brief synopsis of liberalization, stabilization, and... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Public Sector; Privatization; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Russia

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