Happiness - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

Olson argued. "It became the dominant, unquestioned view," Trumbull says. Olson's beliefs have been popular with both liberals and conservatives, he observes. Liberals routinely believe that big banks and corporations control government policy, even if they're not... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

"I would be very happy if both Google and Yahoo resisted these constraints. The real bottom line is people, no matter where they reside. . . . Please do not limit this discussion to China." Nicole Herbots put it this way:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

22 Feb 2022
News

Turning Point: Ready or Not

hearing that smile in her voice whenever we spoke on the phone. In a materialistic world, that smile represents an immense love that requires nothing in return. The smile that just says I am always happy for you. And, now, as I watch my... View Details

Keywords: reflection; life experience; leadership

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Books

knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own... View Details

Keywords: Management

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Commencement 2020 Address | About

required by FIELD and other courses. You have indeed mastered the art and science of business administration and prepared yourself for leadership. Let’s be grateful for the friendships and sense of partnership that have characterized this class since it first arrived.... View Details

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)

Student Union. Social Events Of course, a large part of the HBS experience is meeting new people and making lifelong friends. Whether it’s small group dinners or happy hours, the WSA regularly hosts events to bring our community of women... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned

a personal happiness standpoint, I wanted to know the ten people I’d be interacting and spending the most time with, the person I worked for and the people I’d be working with.” “I zeroed in on the culture of teams, looking for a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

May 2025
Case

The Micro-Family Office: Aamir Rehman

By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan

With a successful career and strong academic credentials, Aamir Rehman sought to design a life grounded in autonomy. For him, this meant serving on boards, continuing his professorship, and ensuring a secure and comfortable life for his family. While he didn’t possess... View Details

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Educators

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

collaborative 65 percent (versus 42 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be efficient 74 percent (versus 51 percent) rated their team as doing everything it could to be effective The happy result for BCG was that... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

development. The reformers' challenge has been to demonstrate that corporate attention to human misery is perfectly consistent with maximizing wealth: that there is, in the words of United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan, "a View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

members of the collective, Hill rejects the idea that they should be chosen in order to conform to a freeform type of corporate structure, a "one big happy family" mentality. People in organizations of collective genius, she insists, need... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were all View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

receive a 5 percent pay increase, and want to know whether to be happy or not, you find out the increases of your colleagues to create meaning of the 5 percent. People do not choose less for themselves. If I ask people whether they would... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

people over the holidays has morphed into a passion and I am so grateful for the professors and classmates at HBS that helped bring me to this point. There’s nothing I love more than getting a text from a friend who sent my cards to a loved one, telling me just how... View Details

30 Aug 2019
Blog Post

3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career

during my first year, but reflecting back now, my first year surely brought transformations and growth in all of those areas. These expreiences are all valuable and to be honest, some are painful too. Sometimes life can be much simpler when I was just View Details

27 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant

efficiency and quality were at a scale and sophistication we hadn’t quite expected. On top of that, everyone we met at the Dolvi plant was deeply knowledgeable and passionate. Although happy with our visit, we left concerned about the... View Details

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Field Course: Field X - Course Catalog

the gamut, every year we have consumer, healthcare, finance, real estate, tech, arts and entertainment, social enterprise, you name it. Q: What if my business has modest goals? A: That's fine, in Field X we're happy to work with teams... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Washington Monument, Robert spontaneously jumped on my back with a happy shout, and it dawned on me that what he needed didn't have anything to do with going places. He needed love, honesty, and someone to listen to him and just be with... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Jun 2019
News

After the Storm

of a merger with supermodel Petra Nemcova’s Happy Hearts Fund. The organization is volunteer-driven and prides itself on showing up early and staying late in the wake of natural disasters, working closely with local agencies to provide,... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery

01 Sep 2017
News

Case Study: Confidence Builder

Kyriacopoulos (MBA 2010) Neither proposed target market seems to be the source of a viable business model. I doubt students can or will pay for info they can get from the internet or they already know. And universities will be happy with... View Details

Keywords: April White; Confi; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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