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The Happiness Advantage: Researching Happiness at Hogwarts

Strategy Driven

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula.

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How to Know If Joining a Startup Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. “Startups are cauldrons of energy, stress, and joy. Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. ’” he says.

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Demystifying Mentoring

Harvard Business Review

Even the promise of future help, if and when it's needed, can be enough to convince a mentor to give up his time and energy. Case Study #1: Using multiple mentors. Case Study #2: When you think you don't need it. Case Study #3: Getting help through a transition. So, do you need mentoring?

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