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Reunions - Alumni

commitment varies from month to month and class to class. Volunteers have the option of focusing their efforts on broad-based gift participation, leadership gift commitments, or planned giving. Your class's Development Liaison will be View Details

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

beautiful things. “Most people are very happy right from that first morning,” Amabile says. The rocky self-reflection stage of retirement Yet, for many, that giddy glow starts to wear off within weeks or months, as they shuffle through a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

choose; most professors are happy to have case writing help! If you chose a professor before a topic, you will want to discuss potential topics with him or her during these first meetings. 4) Get researching! Some professors provide more... View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Management) Regina Herzlinger , Ben Creo Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) John Batter Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 John Batter Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Leadership and Happiness Arthur... View Details

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Nika Duan

going back to my grandparents' house. We'd all brave the cold to wish our friends and neighbors a happy New Year, make dumplings, and set off incredible fireworks. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My... View Details

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

get up, look at the sunshine; they look at a sunset and really smile, knowing full well the sunset wouldn't be there in just twenty minutes. They were very happy in terms of what they saw in their life." In short, said Stevenson;... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

would be more than happy to engage in mutual give-and-take during his negotiations, he often has trouble doing so with his contractors and customers. Some are clearly untrustworthy or entirely self-interested. Such negotiators are likely... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

confidence. While it was daunting, I wrote the email and was happy to see that they were supportive. I was told I still had to complete a full internship load of work and I happily took on that challenge. In the end, I still got an offer... View Details

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Emerging trends Before the onset of COVID-19, a number of trends were becoming clear. It was apparent... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

Exeter Business School. You Might Also Like: More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

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Is Life Nasty, Brutish, and Short? Philosophies of Life and Well-Being

By: Michael I. Norton, Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin and Elizabeth W. Dunn

Three studies examine the extent to which laypeople endorse Thomas Hobbes' (1651) view of life as "nasty, brutish, and short" and explore the relationships between this philosophy and well-being. We asked participants to answer two binary choice questions: Is life... View Details

Keywords: Happiness; Satisfaction; Welfare

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

interactive and one pre-recorded—and examined how happy and connected people felt before and after the videos. Those who participated in the live experience felt much less lonely, although that bump didn’t last. The team shared their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

process.” Previous studies have shown that employees are especially productive and happy when employers encourage them to use their individual signature strengths on the job, but historically those studies did not consider the employee... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

01 Sep 2010
News

Now Starring: Single Dad

Wand said he hoped it would show people in similar situations that there can be happy endings. “I’ve had a pretty wonderful life,” said Wand, who in 1983 married classmate Beverly Patton (MBA ’81) and today is an adjunct finance professor... View Details

Keywords: single parents; fatherhood; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

Sapiens (the name of my podcast) over the last few years, so when I got the good news, I put on a FOMO Sapiens cap and did a little happy dance." Where do you plan to display the trademark document? "I framed it for my FOMO gallery wall.... View Details

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

Thanks (or no thanks) to social media, brand managers have lost the power to control the perception of their products through carefully orchestrated advertising campaigns. These days, consumers are in command. With an angry tweet, a happy... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

Economist. HBS professor William Sahlman, who studied Osher's career and wrote the case study on his company, Dr. John's Products, Ltd., said in an introduction that while much of Osher's success might look from the outside to have been the result of a series of View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

it could work to put contact lenses in chickens, even though this sounded like a bizarre idea. I decided to take the position of, yes, we can do it, because I was tired of every case opening by saying something was not possible. Of course, hands shot up the minute I... View Details

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

25 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Women's Student Association

on negotiating your offer letter, and more. Social Events Of course, a large part of the HBS experience is meeting new people and making lifelong friends. Whether it’s exercise classes or happy hours, the WSA regularly hosts events to... View Details

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

and child” so that they can enjoy “a healthy, happy family.” In building its culture, the firm focuses squarely on recognizing and affirming employees’ individuality. One of Ovia’s core values is “Be yourself, be candid, be kind.”... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

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