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  • 2021
  • Article

Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy

By: Lara B. Aknin and Ashley V. Whillans
Perhaps one of the most reaffirming findings to emerge over the past several decades is that humans not only engage in generous behavior, they also appear to experience pleasure from doing so. Yet not all acts of helping lead to greater happiness. Here, we review the... View Details
Keywords: Generosity; Helping; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Happiness; Policy
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General Inquiries | MBA

General Inquiries MBA Registrar Services Contact MBA Registrar Services MBA Registrar Services is happy to answer your general inquiries regarding MBA Program curriculum coordination, cross-registration, academic records maintenance, and... View Details
  • July – August 2008
  • Article

Help Employees Give Away Some of That Bonus

By: Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn
Employees who spend some or all of their bonuses on others-thereby creating what the authors call a "prosocial" workplace-are happier as a result. Managers can enhance that effect by providing opportunities to share the wealth. View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Behavior; Happiness
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Yael Gilboa Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results We’re All on the Same Team: Reflections from SOCAP17 Yael Gilboa 09 Nov 2017 A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough... View Details
  • 8 AM – 5 PM EDT, 31 May 2018
  • Career Events

HBS Career Reboot Camp in Boston

Career Reboot Camp is coming to Boston! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Farm Boy

JEPPSON: With his wife, Marianne, a long, happy life at Oakholm, the family farm. Apart from his role as chairman and CEO of the Norton Company and service on the boards of numerous nonprofit and civic organizations in Worcester,... View Details
  • Career Coach

Adriann Dolphin

Adriann wants to help students explore roles in the consumer products and tech industries. She can also provide insight into the job experience in consulting, having worked in that industry. She is happy to help with interview prep,... View Details
  • Career Coach

Lobna Dawoud

Having an international background, Lobna is happy to help international students navigate the job search and visa requirements/concerns. Employment Experience: JPMorgan Chase (Investment Banking Internship), McKinsey & Company... View Details
  • Career Coach

Maggie Yang

Having worked in professional services, start-ups, and big tech across numerous functions and industries, Maggie can advise on how to think through industry, company, and function. She is happy to help with career visioning, resume and... View Details
  • 8 AM – 5 PM EST, 17 Nov 2016
  • Career Events

Career Reboot Camp in New York City

Career Reboot Camp is coming to New York! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details
  • Career Coach

Henry Tao

functions, and industries. Henry can help brainstorm career choices, build a target company list, and suggest networking strategies. Henry is also happy to help with elevator pitches, investment pitches, and interview preps. Work... View Details
  • Article

Making Seconds Count: When Valuing Time Promotes Subjective Well-being

By: Alice Lee-Yoon and A.V. Whillans
Time is a finite and precious resource, and the way that we value our time can critically shape happiness. In this article, we present a conceptual framework to explain when valuing time can enhance vs. undermine well-being. Specifically, we review the emotional... View Details
Keywords: Time; Happiness; Welfare; Money; Value; Well-being
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  • Portrait Project

Rachel Reddy

Tears rolling softly down my face. My six young cousins carrying the coffin. A deep quiet and stillness despite a church packed to bursting point. Yet, there’s a profound sense of peace and happiness inside me. I had known this wonderful... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Laura Hayden

bigger idea has stayed with me: I want to make people feel good, feel lighter, feel better. When asked what I like best about working with others, I often say that if I can make people feel good, excited and happy about what they are... 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
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

their combined creative synergy made the team a runner-up in the 2013 Social Enterprise Initiative new venture competition. “It’s tough, and sometimes I feel like I’m building a cathedral that could take hundreds of years,” Rewane says. “But there is View Details
  • Career Coach

Celia Chen

Having worked at McKinsey for 5 years in fintech and consumer/retail industries and Amazon as a senior product manager responsible for launching a new service, Celia is happy to speak to students interested in any of the fields. She can... View Details
  • December 2024
  • Article

Human Bias in the Oversight of Firms: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations

By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya Pérez Silva
We study the effects of mood as a source of human bias on regulators’ oversight and enforcement decisions. We use weather at facilities at the time of an OSHA inspection to proxy for the OSHA compliance officers’ mood. We find that during periods of good mood due to... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Happiness; Working Conditions; Safety
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Lisa Bourne

passionate about because, in the end, I want to be truly happy and experience each moment in life intensely. It may sound clichéd, but what else really matters? (Maybe winning $100 million and seeing the best band on the planet—U2, of... View Details
  • 18 May 2020
  • News

Kevin Mayer Takes Over TikTok

Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) has left his position leading Disney’s streaming business to take over the video-sharing platform TikTok, reports the New York... View Details