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Happiness and Your Company

Harvard Business Review

It's inspired by the coming together of disparate disciplines including positive psychology, welfare economics, hedonomics, neuroscience, and marketing, For a long time there have been counter-intuitive signs leading Nobel prize winners like Amartya Sen, Jospeh Stigliz and Dan Kahneman, to question the meaning of prosperity.

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.". As best I can tell, there is no such methodological consensus in sociology, political science, anthropology, or history at the moment.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Mergers & acquisitions'

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Does Money Really Affect Motivation? A Review of the Research

Harvard Business Review

Despite the overwhelming number of laboratory experiments carried out to evaluate this argument — known as the overjustification effect — there is still no consensus about the degree to which higher pay may demotivate. In a widely cited paper , Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton reported that, in the U.S.,