Marie Wallace
Author & MIT Professor | The Science of Happiness & Wellbeing
About
Marie Wallace is a renowned psychologist and happiness researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As the author of the bestselling book 'The Happy Brain', she has spent over two decades studying the neuroscience and psychology of human flourishing.
Wallace's cutting-edge work on the science of well-being has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, and NPR. Her insightful keynotes give business leaders and policymakers research-backed strategies to cultivate greater joy, resilience, and meaning in their personal and professional lives.
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The ethics of collecting data
One big ethical question looms over the excitement about the potential of big data: how do we maintain privacy while gleaning insight from all of this collected information? Marie Wallace offers some fresh thinking on the topic, such as radical transparency on how retailers use ads to target certain demographics.
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