Happiness - Publications - Faculty & Research

2017
Article

True Happiness: The Role of Morality in the Concept of Happiness

By: Jonathan Phillips, Julian De Freitas, Christian Mott, June Gruber and Joshua Knobe

Recent scientific research has settled on a purely descriptive definition of happiness that is focused solely on agents' psychological states (high positive affect, low negative affect, high life satisfaction). In contrast to this understanding, recent research has... View Details

Keywords: Moral Cognition; Happiness; Moral Sensibility; Emotions; Well-being

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16 Mar 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Amount and Diversity of Digital Emotional Expression Predicts Happiness

Keywords: by Laura Vuillier, Alison Wood Brooks, June Gruber, Rui Sun, Michael I. Norton, Matthew James Samson, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Paul Piff, Sarah Fan, Jordi Quoidbach, Charles Gorintin, Pete Fleming, Arturo Bejar, and Dacher Keltner

02 Apr 2020
Video

Managing Through Crisis: How To Be Happy During COVID-19

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

14 Feb 2014
News

Playing Cupid makes us happy

09 Apr 2008
News

Happy Birthday, Harvard Business School

13 Sep 2010
News

Yes, Money Can Buy Happiness

05 Nov 2020
News

The Happiness Effects of Elections

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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March 2017
Teaching Note

Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Teaching Note for HBS No. 316-154. 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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14 Jun 2019
News

A Simple Strategy For Happiness

06 Apr 2021
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A Simple Strategy for Happiness

6 PM – 8 PM EDT, 20 Jul 2017
HBS Alumni Events

New York 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. View Details