happiness - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

40 years. "These are people entering their retirement years very engaged,"Emerson says. "They are not going to be happy just writing a check andgoing to the annual dinner." Finally, says Grossman, there's... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

31 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management

after graduation have come to HBS with prior experience. That said, firms that have historically been open to career-switchers have often been incredibly happy with their decision and found career-switchers to be incredible “long-term... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

however, that will never change. The best we can do is learn to understand our own mind and gradually improving our ability to get what we want—and be happy with what we get. Sidebar: Negotiation Bargaining Styles Where do you fit?... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2018
News

Alumni Achievement Awards

through education. Armed with a great education, it doesn’t matter where you came from. What I would say to younger people who are thinking about what they want to do in life is do something you’re passionate about. And then you’ll achieve success and View Details

06 Jul 2015
News

Lights! Camera... Market!

to move away, while the other rejects farm life to pursue a bigger payday smuggling drugs over the Canadian border. It’s a tough but touching story with a very un-Hollywood ending. Yet, for Jared Simon (MBA 2008), the making—and marketing—of the film turned into a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

behavior—which is a stereotype—one of the things we can do is ask, "How am I really going to be perceived if I don't negotiate?" If you don't negotiate for your salary, they walk away happy that they paid you less but wonder why... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

accounting books and doing things that hurt a lot of people at the end of the day. On a personal level, I lost two children. My wife was expecting triplets. Happiness comes within. It doesn't matter what happens to you, the choices you... View Details

05 Sep 2017
News

Living the Quantitative Life

seek out this sort of community of like-minded trackers or were you always happy with it being a solo pursuit? Grana: So I think when I began, which was around 2009, I wasn't even aware that there could or would be a community. So I... View Details

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

the drivers of customer churn and uncover opportunities to increase customer retention across the customer selection, selling, and training processes. Students assess a metric, CHI (Customer Happiness Index), which HubSpot uses to predict... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

house in York for us to live in. So this started a very happy childhood in York. JH: Growing up, Bob and his brother had an outdoorsy childhood, riding their bikes and playing in the fields and creeks near town. But Wilson was also pretty... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

history, is a framed copy of the front page of the August 8, 1992, San Francisco Examiner. On that particular day, the editors co-opted the signature home-run call — “Bye-Bye Baby!” — of the Giants’ Hall of Fame broadcaster Russ Hodges to announce a far less View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

A: It was the happy confluence of several factors. It began in 2003 when some of my large-sample empirical research with [University of Michigan professor] Jim Hines led me to think harder about moves that several firms, including Stanley... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life

community and when these groups are appropriately resourced to host events and programs it highlights an organization’s commitment to their LGBTQ+ employees. At some companies, ERGs serve as foundational aspects of the firms’ professional ecosystems. For Justin... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Sep 2019
News

Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse

I live in the Bay area. I love to get out and run, and bike, and hike, and I think that those are kind of the real kind of head-clearing opportunities and yeah I have a lot of revelations in long showers. My wife isn't super happy about,... View Details

15 Sep 2016
News

The Burning Man Project

sort of take us through a day at Burning Man, particularly the day that the man actually burns? Raiser: Burn day is really kind of our New Year's Eve. So people all throughout the day will greet you with happy burn day. And it's this... View Details

09 Mar 2023
News

Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

everyone in attendance received a commemorative mug with a fortune cookie inside. The fortune read, "Life is one long jubilee. Happy 75th Anniversary!" HBS Club of San Antonio Planning Festivities to Mark 50 Years To celebrate 50 years... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Sep 2021
News

Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

You shouldn’t ask me about retirement, because I’ve done absolutely no planning for it other than financial. And I’d hope to be able to work as long as I’m enjoying it, which I think could be a few years yet. Morrell: In this episode of Skydeck, you’ll hear from some... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

concedes.) So he moved on. Parker spent the next five years at Automatic Data Processing, where he turned around an equipment-leasing division and earned a promotion to division vice president. While he was happy to be back in management,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used experimental methodology, demonstrating that recalling a past instance... View Details