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- 01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived
Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of us bring that level of...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
we get together we have lots to share." Dodi envisions resuming the traveling life once her children, now seven and eight, are in college. "I'd also like to get into politics," she muses. Governor Dodi? Stay tuned. —Marguerite Rigoglioso...
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- 03 Jan 2018
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This is how much money it takes for millionaires to be happy
- 25 Jul 2017
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Money is the Secret to Happiness, Science Says
- 24 Jul 2017
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Yes, You Can Buy Happiness-If You Spend It to Save Time
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
meager supply of life jackets, neglecting to keep one for herself. When the boat sank, she used her skills as a former lifeguard to save people in the shark-infested waters, but hundreds of others drowned. Fashioning a flotation device...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2023
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Happier-ness at Work
Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write....
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them happy, say Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans, who both study the intersection of time,...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2003
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Dwight Raiford
years, but only recently have they truly come together. “My life is finally aligned,” says Raiford with a warm smile and easy laugh. After a successful career in finance — including twenty years at Citibank — he is now using his business...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
longer take pride and satisfaction in the one little fragment that is his part of the whole ball of wax.” And if money is at the root of much evil, then business inevitably carries a taint. In MacDonald’s fiction, business is a kind of...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
people.” Twenty years ago, Frances Frei was not the globally revered management guru she has become. This was before she helped transform the culture at HBS to close the performance gap between female and male students, resulting in higher View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
watershed events in 1992 provoked further introspection for Cassell: his father died, and, several months later, he and his wife, Bernadine, became the adoptive parents of a baby boy, Alex. "As these events unfolded," says Cassell, "I realized that View Details
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Eileen McCluskey
- 13 Jul 2016
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From Money to Ministry
than anything, and that perhaps I was called to ministry,” he says. “I went to my rector to talk about it, and he said, ‘What took you so long?’ Less than a year later, I was in seminary.” Quainton gave up a six-figure salary and a comfortable View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
schools. We All Leak Eventually: Stories from a Humorously Unbalanced Mind by Larry Castriotta (MBA 1973) (Larry Castriotta) Writing of his life growing up in a small town within a tight, loving family, Castriotta revisits his childhood...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
captured the redoubt. Hamilton, sword in hand and the first person to leap into the fray, could not have written a better script or carried it off with more élan. It was the perfect culmination of his time in the army, and it made him a legitimate national hero.......
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
relentless innovation and laser-eyed attention to detail are the primary drivers of success. And despite, or perhaps because of, those demands, these manufacturing executives also describe the sense of deep satisfaction their work can...
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