Happy End Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

“aims to give students a competitive advantage.” How can understanding happiness, both that of our colleagues and our own, make one a more effective leader? One of the big problems that we have is that when people don’t understand View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on work... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

receive a 5 percent pay increase, and want to know whether to be happy or not, you find out the increases of your colleagues to create meaning of the 5 percent. People do not choose less for themselves. If I ask people whether they would... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

Student-Faculty-Profile

Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton

“big” research that tackled problems that, if solved, could have big benefits. Our social recycling project is a great example, a reimagining of how we think about “trash” with the potential to increase consumers’... View Details

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

" Celso Maia added: "Predictions will improve but wise application in most cases still remains under XIII century style." As Arpit Goyal put it: "The whole system is centralized on two notions, 'uncertainty' and 'people's confidence.' I think the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Portrait Project

Gavriel Goidel

three children, despite our different worldviews. At the end of the day, my pursuit for self-realization and happiness is not about money or titles, but rather about the freedom to choose without being... View Details

24 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security

and to frame the problems in the right way to come up with solutions quickly. Additionally, I was used to strict processes but at At-Bay, I had to learn how to tackle issues that no one in the company has dealt with before me, and how to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

21 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

at all than those shoppers who sampled only 6 flavors; considering too many options made it too hard to choose one.) The Underthinker The problem is that time-crunched managers often swing too far to the other View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2001
News

The Play's the Thing

weekly community-service visits to the old man for six months. "It's an arrangement neither of them is very happy with," Baron told the St. Petersburg Times (July 12, 2001), "but once they get to know each other a little better, they... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

"If you don't have a good sense for the "zone of possible agreement," you can anchor in the wrong place and end up with a suboptimal outcome," Mohan says. Questions Unlock Information Asking a lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

04 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought

is? Three days before, someone from the So-Cal Times-Perez, Barton now realized, or one of her flunkies-had called his East Coast office at Erlington Financial Group for a quote he'd been only too happy to provide. Anticipating a hopeful... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O'Donnell; Aerospace

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

an enormous premium relative to the core market, 200, 300, 400 percent, Apple's products, while still highly differentiated, have a very hard time selling at a huge premium relative to the core PC market. So problem number one is that PCs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Sally Aaron

Modern medical technology gave me a chance to be happy and healthy when I was young. I want to make sure others have the same chance and privilege. I was born with a dislocated hip that was saved only by modern medicine – it changed my... View Details

Portrait Project

Valentina Zarya

ended in puberty, but my hair tells the real story. It’s been a dozen different colors over the years: Raven black during a goth phase in high school; varying shades of copper in college; and blonde to test the “they have more fun”... View Details

Portrait Project

Carl Petty

appreciate how much they have in common and to respect or even celebrate that which makes them different. I would love to do this on a grand scale as a diplomat, helping to resolve conflict throughout the world. Whether this ends up as my... View Details

Portrait Project

Heidi Brooks

refugees in Cote d'Ivoire and helping build small businesses in Vietnam. I've strengthened programs that directly and indirectly improved the lives of thousands of people in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. After traveling and living in 55 countries, I am surprisingly... View Details

12 Sep 2016
Blog Post

An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Jonathan Shepherd

alumni. I spend a large part of my time in one-to-one coaching appointments. While the conversations often revolve around the finance and real estate industries, I’m happy to speak with any student or alumnus about anything. Conversations... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Alumni Author

help of several HBS faculty members, Wademan compiled Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind, which was published by HBS Press in May. What are some of the themes addressed in this book? I think the main theme centers on success and View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Portrait Project

Matt Segneri

greatest happiness in serving others. I cannot stop laughing at awkward and inappropriate things, and I don't want to. It bothers me that I ended that last sentence in a preposition. Oddly, I often have... View Details

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