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  • 28 Jul 2022
  • News

How to Be Happy in a Recession

  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Action Plan: Happy Honey

Raise Happy Bees Stay out of the experts’ way. “Don’t stand in the beeline,” Price says—the path bees take in and out of the hive as they go about their work. Humans might take a tip from bees’ innate organizational skills, he says, which... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
  • 01 Jul 2012
  • News

How to buy happiness

  • 19 Dec 2013
  • News

How Money Affects Happiness

  • 20 Oct 2022
  • News

Envy, the Happiness Killer

  • 2002
  • Working Paper

The Macroeconomics of Happiness

By: Rafael Di Tella, Robert J. MacCulloch and Andrew J. Oswald
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Social Recycling Transforms Unwanted Goods into Happiness

By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Cait Lamberton, Rebecca Walker Reczek and Michael I. Norton
Consumers are often surrounded by resources that once offered meaning or happiness but that have lost this subjective value over time—even as they retain their objective utility. We explore the potential for social recycling—disposing of used goods by allowing other... View Details
Keywords: Disposition; Well-being; Prosocial Behavior; Pro-environmental Behavior; Happiness; Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Environmental Sustainability
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Happiness Runs in a Circular Motion: Evidence for a Positive Feedback Loop between Prosocial Spending and Happiness

By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
We examine whether a positive feedback loop exists between spending money on others (i.e. prosocial spending) and happiness. Participants recalled a previous purchase made for either themselves or someone else and then reported their happiness. Afterward, participants... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Happiness; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 10 Aug 2017
  • News

Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

his day. Free refills, finding $5 in a coat pocket, that sort of thing. The blog, called 1000 Awesome Things started garnering a huge following and turned into a series of successful books. Last year, Neil released The Happiness Equation,... 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
Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Altruism; Happiness; Well-being; Spending; Behavior
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  • July 21, 2022
  • Article

How to Build a Life: A Happiness Columnist’s Three Biggest Happiness Rules

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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  • 15 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

that people did not express as much happiness thinking back on helping people compared to when they had just completed the act of giving. “If you’ve just finished enacting a helping behavior, that action tends to be associated with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Article

Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Employment; Income; Mathematical Methods; Welfare
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  • 30 Nov 2017
  • News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

McDonald’s gift certificates every Christmas. Flatley would usually head to McDonald’s with her mom and siblings after gymnastics class—a special, happy family moment amidst the chaos of crammed schedules. Cunningham’s local McDonald’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia
  • March 2016 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Carin-Isabel Knoop
On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details
Keywords: On-demand Economy; Sharing Economy; Technology Startup; Technology; Growth Strategy; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Service Industry; United States; Boston; Cambridge; New York (city, NY); California
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  • 28 Jun 2013
  • News

How Money Actually Buys Happiness

  • 04 Mar 2011
  • News

How to Make Workers Happy

  • 12 Sep 2019
  • News

Happy Retirees Build New Lives

  • 21 Mar 2018
  • News

How Money Can Buy Happiness

  • 3 PM – 6 PM EDT, 13 Jul 2017
  • HBS Alumni Events

San Francisco Energy Happy Hour

Please join fellow HBS alumni and students in the field of energy for an evening of food, drinks, and lively conversation about the future of the industry. Please RSVP to bei@hbs.edu by July 8th. View Details