
Arthur Brooks
Professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School | Atlantic columnist on happiness

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Arthur Brooks is a professor at both the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership and happiness. He writes a column on happiness for The Atlantic.
His research combines social science with practical wisdom. Arthur's keynotes help leaders understand how to build happier, more effective organizations and lives.
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A conservative's plea: Let's work together
Conservatives and liberals both believe that they alone are motivated by love while their opponents are motivated by hate. How can we solve problems with so much polarization? In this talk, social scientist Arthur Brooks shares ideas for what we can each do as individuals to break the gridlock. "We might just be able to take the ghastly holy war of ideology that we're suffering under and turn it into a competition of ideas," he says.
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