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  • 2018
  • Chapter

Time, Money, and Subjective Wellbeing

By: Cassie Mogilner, A.V. Whillans and Michael I. Norton
Time and money are scarce and precious resources: people experience stress about having insufficient time and worry about having insufficient money. This chapter reviews research showing that the ways in which people spend their time and money, the tradeoffs that... View Details
Keywords: Money; Time Management; Happiness; Satisfaction
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  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

administer the exercise in class. The goals of the exercise are to examine how asking questions during conversation influences interpersonal perception, information exchange, decision making, productivity, as well as relationships and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

business deal or making plans for a joint vacation, friends may tell you that they are perfectly happy with your proposal even if they have private misgivings. For this reason, negotiations between friends tend to be less creative than... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 29 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

multidivisional enterprises that have diversified into related product lines. The present book aims to fill in this gap in the literature by adopting a coherent approach to this elusive subject. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54158... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1972
  • Book

Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective

By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Happiness; Science; Perspective
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  • 12 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

let go. Finding a happy medium is far from easy. Diana Baumrind, a pioneering research psychologist, observed that parents often behave in ways that are either authoritarian, permissive, or negligent, with a tendency to bounce among the... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation
  • 14 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump

better health insurance with lower taxes, remember the essence of a brand is promise, large promise. Pin your brand to a dream, yes, but have a plan or today’s happy buyers will become tomorrow’s angry owners. Win at any price. Your... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
  • 31 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

of business research in the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the book explains how well-tested academic theories can help us find meaning and happiness not just at work, but... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

financial management advice. But startups often run into issues outside those categories, everything from what to ask potential hires in a job interview to analyzing sales funnels. Experienced investors have likely run into those issues many times over and are View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally associated with artistic... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 22 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing

with high variance. (See the exhibit "A Better Way to Manage Inventory.") The first test shows a scenario in which a manufacturer is most concerned about keeping its big retail customers happy by maintaining very high order... View Details
Keywords: by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond & David Weil; Consumer Products
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

have documented the modest (though reliable) link between household income and well-being, we examined the accuracy of laypeople's intuitions about this relationship by asking people from across the income spectrum to report their own View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

in everything you need to know to re-enter the professional work force, a combination of deep dive into yourself, a look at who you are and understanding what is really satisfying to you. What's the best utilization of your skills that will really make you View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

work on money as an important part of my Leadership and Happiness course and look forward to catching up with his newest efforts. My extended family has agreed to share The World: A Brief Introduction, by Richard Haas, in a group... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2023
  • Technical Note

Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Work can be a means to a financial end, a stepping stone to higher-level jobs, or a meaningful end in itself: a calling. The technical note provides an overview of two different ways people can pursue a calling: with an internal focus or external focus. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Motivation and Incentives; Human Needs; Satisfaction; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; Music Industry; Education Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • 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
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

opportunities and verify that two similar equilibria emerge. Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox? Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Periodical:Journal of Development Economics 16, no. 3 (fall 2007)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

relative merits for Unigrains of expanding its reach globally versus maintaining its specialized position in French agribusiness. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-154 Hello Alfred: Come Home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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