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  • Career Coach

Tricia Peralta

these decision points against your overall career goals, and serve as a sounding board as you think about what matters most to you. She is also happy to help with career visioning, case interviews, networking tips, and everything else in... View Details
  • Career Coach

Mansi Raythatha

personal criteria in a post-MBA career. Mansi is happy to prep peers for a diversity of interview settings, including 1:1, panel, group interviews, and online leadership assessments. As a previous RC Career Rep, she is also View Details
  • Portrait Project

Stephen Johnston

me to do something similar. Meanwhile, time is ticking. I'd love to speak ten languages by the time I'm 35, and learn the national dance of each country on my way. The next task will be to find a place where trade offs between time, View Details
  • Article

Family Rituals Improve the Holidays

By: Ovul Sezer, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino and Kathleen Vohs
Rituals are central to family life. Three studies (N = 1098) tested the relationship between family rituals and holiday enjoyment and demonstrated that family rituals improve the holidays because they amplify family closeness and involvement in the experience. In Study... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Behavior; Satisfaction; Family and Family Relationships
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  • Career Coach

Elizabeth Gelb

Liz is happy to talk through career opportunities and strategies to pivot into roles in investing, consulting, sustainability, and energy, both internationally and domestically. Having worked in these industries prior to HBS and exploring... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2010
  • Conference Presentation

How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Improves Employee Morale and Increases Profitability and Competitiveness

By: Michael W. Toffel
Keywords: Management Systems; Employees; Quality; Happiness; Profit
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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Blissful Thinking

good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
  • Portrait Project

Monica Gupta Adractas

each impact four friends, who each help dozens by becoming teachers, doctors... Imagine the potential for impact I will also use a simple smile - or a hearty laugh - to spread happiness everyday. After all, laughter also multiplies with... View Details
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Should Central Banks Maximize Happiness? Happiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Keywords: Central Banking; Happiness; Satisfaction; Emotions; Banking Industry
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  • Career Coach

Grace Jemison

within digital health, providers, and social impact. Having worked and interned in these industries, she understands how winding and frustrating the process can be, and is happy to help you understand the various roles, how to reach out... View Details
  • Portrait Project

CiCi Barrett

Thank you, cancer. You’ve brought love and happiness into my life. I didn’t always feel grateful. I was only 6 when my mom was first diagnosed. Back then, I was too young to understand, but when her cancer returned 7 years later, my toxic... View Details
  • Career Coach

Ashley McCray

Having worked in these industries, Ashley can provide insights into how these industries recruit, what the job experience will look like, and how they can help meet your personal criteria in a post-MBA career. She is happy to help with... View Details
  • 2015
  • Article

Beliefs About the True Self Explain Asymmetries Based on Moral Judgment

By: George E. Newman, Julian De Freitas and Joshua Knobe
Past research has identified a number of asymmetries based on moral judgments. Beliefs about (a) what a person values, (b) whether a person is happy, (c) whether a person has shown weakness of will, and (d) whether a person deserves praise or blame seem to depend... View Details
Keywords: Concepts; Social Cognition; Moral Reasoning; True Self; Values; Weakness Of Will; Blame; Values and Beliefs; Identity; Moral Sensibility; Happiness
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  • 14 Aug 2019
  • News

Pasricha on the Perils of Retirement

In a recent interview with WBUR, author Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) argues that retirement “is a terrible idea.” Inspired by anecdotal examples of people whose health failed shortly after retirement, Pasricha—author of the bestselling book The View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

By: Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James and Michael I. Norton
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). Analyzing survey data from 136 countries, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Happiness; Motivation and Incentives; Welfare; Uganda; Canada
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

By: Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn
While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Research; Behavior; Happiness; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 01 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

globally? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518071 Harvard Business School Case 918-041 Happy UAE This case centers on the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) national goal of raising the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Faculty Books

employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices we make more broadly as human beings (whom we date, how we deal with friendships). She identifies the factors likely to sway decisions in wrong directions and how to correct for these subtle influences. View Details
  • Career Coach

Mike Beveridge

career might look like. He is happy to provide resume and cover letter reviews, mock cases interview prep, and general career visioning and brainstorming. Employment Experience: Smithfield Foods, FreshDirect, Bain & Company... View Details
  • Career Coach

Maude Hoffman

Maude is happy to help fellow students talk through career decisions and strategies to pivot to investing, sustainability, and energy. She studied chemical engineering undergrad, but has worked in non-engineering roles at SunPower... View Details