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  • 21 Apr 2020
  • News

To Be More Resilient in a Crisis, Focus on Meaning, Not Happiness

  • December 7, 2023
  • Article

How to Build a Life: Harness the Power of Suggestion for Your Happiness

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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  • June 15, 2023
  • Article

How to Build a Life: The Path to Happiness Is Narrow But Easy

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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  • July 30, 2020
  • Article

How to Build a Life: ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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  • 10 Feb 2009
  • Conference Presentation

Who Really Is Your Friend? Pursuing Happiness in Your Perception of Social Networks

By: Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton
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  • 10 Feb 2008
  • Conference Presentation

Life really is nasty, brutish, and short—and no one is happy about it

By: Lalin Anik, Michael I. Norton, Lara B. Aknin and Elizabeth W. Dunn
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  • 30 Jun 2023
  • News

At HKS Conference, Experts Ask Serious Questions about the Public Value of Happiness

  • 10 Nov 2020
  • News

Professors and Musicians Discuss the Intersections of Music and Happiness in HBS Webinar

  • 23 Feb 2022
  • News

Arthur Brooks on the Keys to Finding Happiness | How To Own Things

  • May 2021
  • Supplement

Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise, Instructor Version

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Service Industry; New York (city, NY); Boston
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  • 18 Mar 2025
  • News

How Lanco Medical Group Fosters Workforce Happiness to Motivate Employees and Grow Fast

  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future

Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe The HBS Alumni Board welcomes 22 new members for 2020–21 this fall. The complete roster is here. The Board is a representative group of 81 alumni from across graduation years, geographies, and programs.... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush; alumni events; lifelong learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details
Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures
  • February 2011
  • Article

It's the Recipient That Counts: Spending Money on Strong Social Ties Leads to Greater Happiness Than Spending on Weak Social Ties

By: Lara B. Aknin, Gillian M. Sandstrom, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Previous research has shown that spending money on others (prosocial spending) increases happiness. But, do the happiness gains depend on who the money is spent on? Sociologists have distinguished between strong ties with close friends and family and weak... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Relationships; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • November 19, 2020
  • Article

How to Build a Life: Sedentary Pandemic Life Is Bad for Our Happiness

By: Arthur C. Brooks
The times when we most want comfort and rest may paradoxically be the times we most need to move, for the sake of our well-being. View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Welfare
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  • 02 Oct 2021
  • Video

From Strength to Strength: Happiness and Success in the Second Half of Life

  • December 31, 2020
  • Article

How to Build a Life: New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Lead to Happiness

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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  • August 12, 2021
  • Article

How to Build a Life: The Link Between Happiness and a Sense of Humor

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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  • 15 Feb 2022
  • News

Arthur Brooks on Cracking the Code to Happiness in the Second Half of Life

  • August 24, 2023
  • Article

How to Build a Life: How to Get the Most Happiness from Your Social Life

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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