Publications

23 Feb 2022
News

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

29 Sep 2020
News

Virtual Networking Tips from HBS Career Coaches

15 Sep 2020
News

Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable?

01 Dec 2008
News

Listen Up

All eyes are fixed on Jim Aisner, the maestro of HBS campus tours, as he spoke to a group of alumni and their families in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center on the opening day of the Centennial Global Business Summit, Sunday, October 12. Over the past 25 years, Aisner,... View Details

Keywords: campus tours

01 Jun 2015
News

Feedback

Head of the Class Re: Warrior Spirit I am privileged to know Chatri [Sityodtong] personally, and I can tell you that he is a generous, kind, and unstoppable force of nature. He is a frequent guest in my classes at INSEAD in Singapore, where he mentors and trains my MBA... View Details

25 Aug 2014
News

Selling County Music to New York City

01 Jun 2006
News

Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants

FUNDRAISER FOR HOMELESS VETS: HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association members, including Jon Redmond and Kate Kohler (both MBA '06), took turns spending three days and two nights in late March camped out on Spangler Lawn to help raise awareness and money for homeless vets.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2005
News

What’s Next for You?

At a fall reunion session titled “Downshifting Your Career or Just Changing Direction?” panelist Michael Jeans shared a startling World Health Organization prediction: In the United States today, those who are healthy when they reach age 50 have an even chance of... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
News

Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

Goodness, draws on research from the fields of philosophy, psychology, behavioral research, and the concepts of effective altruism to outline a set of actions that we can embark on immediately to make next year better than last. Start... View Details

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

Overdorf (HBS MBA '99), CEO of Innosight, LLC, a company founded by Christensen in January 2000 to advise other firms about dealing with disruption. However, countered a panelist, citing the Palm Pilot as an example, some technological innovations requiring a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

It was a busy spring for alumni, both on and off the HBS campus. The Cleveland Conference, Reunions, and Club Officers Roundtable were each very successful and energizing events. Such occasions provide us with a unique opportunity to hear firsthand from faculty and the... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

13 Jun 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

That Costs HOW Much?

graphicola Price is important to consumers not just because it determines whether they can afford to purchase that purse or patio set. The cost of an item sets the buyer's expectations as to how the product or service will perform and what kind of prestige will be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

September 2022
Article

The Limits of Inconspicuous Incentives

By: Leslie K. John, Hayley Blunden, Katherine Milkman, Luca Foschini and Bradford Tuckfield

Managers and policymakers regularly rely on incentives to encourage valued behaviors. While incentives are often successful, there are also notable and surprising examples of their ineffectiveness. Why? We propose a contributing factor may be that they are not... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Behavior

August 2020
Article

Does Spending Money on Others Promote Happiness? A Registered Replication Report

By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Jason Proulx, Iris Lok and Michael I. Norton

Research indicates that spending money on others—prosocial spending—leads to greater happiness than spending money on oneself (e.g., Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These findings have received widespread attention because they offer insight into why people engage... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Generosity; Well-being; Replication; Happiness; Behavior; Spending

January 2021
Article

A Model of Relative Thinking

By: Benjamin Bushong, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein

Fixed differences loom smaller when compared to large differences. We propose a model of relative thinking where a person weighs a given change along a consumption dimension by less when it is compared to bigger changes along that dimension. In deterministic settings,... View Details

Keywords: Relative Thinking; Econometric Models; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking

December 1998
Exercise

Decorum in Guangzhou (A)

By: James K. Sebenius, David T. Kotchen and Rebecca Green

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Behavior; Canton (city, China)

September 1988 (Revised October 1988)
Case

Anatomy of a ""Team Destroyer"": An Analysis of Individuals Who Stymie Interfunctional Coordination

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Suzy Wetlaufer

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Relationships; Behavior