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Date
May 5, 2026
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12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
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Virtual Event
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Add to Calendar 05-05-2026 12:00:00 05-05-2026 13:00:00 America/New_York HAA Speakers Bureau Spotlight: Rituals, Habits, and Living the Good Life with Michael Norton

Hear from Professor Michael Norton in this third program in the Speakers Bureau Spotlight series where he'll share about Rituals, Habits, and Living the Good Life.



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Rituals, Habits, and Living the Good Life with Michael Norton is the third program in the Speakers Bureau Spotlight Series.

Michael I. Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and English from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Norton was a Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

He has studied human behavior as it relates to love and inequality, time and money, and happiness and grief. He is the author of The Ritual Effect and the coauthor—with Elizabeth Dunn—of Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. In 2012, he was selected by Wired magazine as one of “50 People Who Will Change the World.” His TEDx talk, How to Buy Happiness, has been viewed nearly 4.5 million times. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Scientific American, and has made numerous television, radio, and podcast appearances.

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