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- December 3, 2020
- Article
How to Build a Life: Measuring Your Happiness Can Help Improve It
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Measuring Your Happiness Can Help Improve It." The Atlantic (December 3, 2020).
- September 12, 2024
- Article
How to Build a Life: What John Stuart Mill Knew About Happiness
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: What John Stuart Mill Knew About Happiness." The Atlantic (September 12, 2024).
- May 6, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: How Adult Children Affect Their Mother's Happiness
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: How Adult Children Affect Their Mother's Happiness." The Atlantic (May 6, 2021).
- January 28, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: There Are Two Kinds of Happy People
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: There Are Two Kinds of Happy People." The Atlantic (January 28, 2021).
- June 15, 2023
- Article
How to Build a Life: The Path to Happiness Is Narrow But Easy
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: The Path to Happiness Is Narrow But Easy." The Atlantic (June 15, 2023).
- July 30, 2020
- Article
How to Build a Life: ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy." The Atlantic (July 30, 2020).
- 10 Feb 2009
- Conference Presentation
Who Really Is Your Friend? Pursuing Happiness in Your Perception of Social Networks
By: Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton
Anik, Lalin, and Michael I. Norton. "Who Really Is Your Friend? Pursuing Happiness in Your Perception of Social Networks." Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, February 10, 2009.
- 10 Feb 2008
- Conference Presentation
Life really is nasty, brutish, and short—and no one is happy about it
By: Lalin Anik, Michael I. Norton, Lara B. Aknin and Elizabeth W. Dunn
- December 7, 2023
- Article
How to Build a Life: Harness the Power of Suggestion for Your Happiness
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Harness the Power of Suggestion for Your Happiness." The Atlantic (December 7, 2023).
- May 2021
- Supplement
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise, Instructor Version
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
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
- February 2011
- Article
It's the Recipient That Counts: Spending Money on Strong Social Ties Leads to Greater Happiness Than Spending on Weak Social Ties
By: Lara B. Aknin, Gillian M. Sandstrom, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Previous research has shown that spending money on others (prosocial spending) increases happiness. But, do the happiness gains depend on who the money is spent on? Sociologists have distinguished between strong ties with close friends and family and weak... View Details
Aknin, Lara B., Gillian M. Sandstrom, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton. "It's the Recipient That Counts: Spending Money on Strong Social Ties Leads to Greater Happiness Than Spending on Weak Social Ties." PLoS ONE 6, no. 2 (February 2011): e17018.
- November 19, 2020
- Article
How to Build a Life: Sedentary Pandemic Life Is Bad for Our Happiness
By: Arthur C. Brooks
The times when we most want comfort and rest may paradoxically be the times we most need to move, for the sake of our well-being. View Details
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Sedentary Pandemic Life Is Bad for Our Happiness." The Atlantic (November 19, 2020).
- December 31, 2020
- Article
How to Build a Life: New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Lead to Happiness
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Lead to Happiness." The Atlantic (December 31, 2020).
- August 12, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: The Link Between Happiness and a Sense of Humor
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: The Link Between Happiness and a Sense of Humor." The Atlantic (August 12, 2021).
- August 24, 2023
- Article
How to Build a Life: How to Get the Most Happiness from Your Social Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: How to Get the Most Happiness from Your Social Life." The Atlantic (August 24, 2023).
- February 17, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age." The Atlantic (February 17, 2022).
- April 2013 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
Norway: The Embarrassment of Riches
By: Sophus A. Reinert, Forest Reinhardt and Senny Munthe-Kaas
In early 2013, Norway was by many accounts the world’s most developed country; it topped various indices for everything from democracy to happiness, had a comprehensive welfare state, and massive oil revenues endowed it with a substantial, and growing, Sovereign Wealth... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Wealth Funds; Welfare State; Natural Resources; Internationalization; Dutch Disease; Happiness; Macroeconomics; Energy Sources; Values and Beliefs; Sovereign Finance; Immigration; Welfare; Energy Industry; Norway
Reinert, Sophus A., Forest Reinhardt, and Senny Munthe-Kaas. "Norway: The Embarrassment of Riches." Harvard Business School Case 713-061, April 2013. (Revised February 2018.)
- Article
Every Large Point Set Contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon
By: Zachary Abel, Brad Ballinger, Prosenjit Bose, Sébastien Collette, Vida Dujmović, Ferran Hurtado, Scott Duke Kominers, Stefan Langerman, Attila Pór and David Wood
We prove the following generalised empty pentagon theorem for every integer ℓ ≥ 2, every sufficiently large set of points in the plane contains ℓ collinear points or an empty pentagon. As an application, we settle the next open case of the “big line or big clique”... View Details
Keywords: Erdős-Szekeres Theorem; Happy End Problem; Big Line Or Big Clique Conjecture; Empty Quadrilateral; Empty Pentagon; Empty Hexagon
Abel, Zachary, Brad Ballinger, Prosenjit Bose, Sébastien Collette, Vida Dujmović, Ferran Hurtado, Scott Duke Kominers, Stefan Langerman, Attila Pór, and David Wood. "Every Large Point Set Contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon." Graphs and Combinatorics 27, no. 1 (January 2011): 47–60.
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
graduated. “Here’s the 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... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
That’s not a bad yardstick for decision-making in the happiness business. Most of us would probably agree that “what’s enough” should be a bit of a stretch but achievable. For example, for many years my spouse and I shared an objective of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett