happiness - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Sep 2019
News

Happy Retirees Build New Lives

21 Mar 2018
News

Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs, and when he visits them, he always keeps his eye out for a surefire sign of trouble: A customer... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

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

02 Apr 2020
News

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

06 Apr 2021
Video

A Simple Strategy for Happiness

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

23 Feb 2022
News

‘From Strength to Strength,’ Lessons in Leadership, Happiness

02 Apr 2020
Video

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

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

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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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