article thumbnail

Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything?

Harvard Business Review

The multiplication of eudaimonia can be gauged neither by "GDP," then, nor by tracking self-reported happiness, nor by basic, simple measures of basic human development, like the HDI — but rather, by understanding whether or not people are becoming their better, wholer, grittier, wiser, fundamentally more accomplished selves.

GDP 18
article thumbnail

The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

To the long, dismal list of fatally broken institutions — GDP, governments, schools, corporations — we can add the mysterious Libor , and its conveniently comfortable calculation. Gary Hamel has suggested we redesign the corporation as more a vehicle for human accomplishment than a military machine.

Price 13