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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Review of Economics and Statistics The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- April 2005
- Article
Partisan Social Happiness
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We use a new approach to study questions in political economy that relies on data on the subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the OECD over the period 1975-1992. Controlling for the personal characteristics of the respondents, year and country... View Details
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Partisan Social Happiness." Review of Economic Studies 72, no. 2 (April 2005): 367–93.
- Summer 2025
- Article
Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life
By: Leslie Perlow and Salvatore J Affinito
When individuals engage in fulfilling activities outside of work, they perform better on the job, but simply encouraging work-life balance doesn’t help with hour-by-hour time management. A new tool for measuring the subjective value of time for individuals as it varies... View Details
Perlow, Leslie, and Salvatore J Affinito. "Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life." MIT Sloan Management Review 66, no. 4 (Summer 2025): 44–49.
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
impact on subjective well-being because of people's tendency to adapt quickly; worse, those events that do have a lasting impact tend to be negative. We suggest that while major events may not provide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Faculty & Research
delivers significantly more benefits than doing things that typically are considered “good for you.” (4) Diversify your activities. Variety—not depth—boosts happiness. (5) Protect your free time. Don’t let work encroach on it; if you use it wisely, your View Details
- March 24, 2020
- Article
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
Falk, Armin, and Thomas Graeber. "Delayed Negative Effects of Prosocial Spending on Happiness." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 12 (March 24, 2020): 6463–6468.
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
significantly more benefits than doing things that typically are considered “good for you.” (4) Diversify your activities. Variety—not depth—boosts happiness. (5) Protect your free time. Don’t let work encroach on it; if you use it wisely, your View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
ambiguously-deserved punishment. In situations involving politicized moral transgressions, including those where the case for punishing the transgressor is judged to be relatively ambiguous, subjects expect punishers to be perceived... View Details
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Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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resources and to foster the well-being of community members and preserve these resources for future generations, the University must codify the rules, practices, and policies that simultaneously protect and facilitate the use of the... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
economies—for understanding and managing the development of the space economy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54487 in press Current Opinion in Psychology Making Seconds Count: When Valuing Time Promotes View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
2011. Enjoy, and have a great new year! TOP 10 MOST POPULAR ARTICLES OF 2010 Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
guidelines to help employees work from home, including planning their work, being on time, not dropping in for a conversation unannounced, and taking a day off if needed. The bank also introduced a number of practices to promote View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
white women to have recently experienced harassment, even when controlling for sector, industry, size of company, age, and marital/partner status. “I was repeatedly the subject of sexual overtures when I first graduated from HBS. From the... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
MBA students—reflecting a generous deferral and leave policy—enrolled. Doctoral classes were held entirely online. Health & Well-Being on Campus Throughout the year, students, faculty, and staff participated in regular COVID testing... View Details
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Faculty Spotlight: HBS Racial Equity Fellow Professor Ivuoma N. Onyeador - Blog: RGE Report
well-being of minorities at work. Her recent scholarship peels back the veil on how we connect across cultural barriers and can help us foster positive employee dynamics to soothe discord. When we’re thinking in organizational terms, it’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
looking for in applicants? Wheelwright: The vision of the MBA Program is to develop outstanding business leaders who contribute to the well-being of society. With this overriding goal in mind, we seek individuals who maintain high... View Details