A Short Course on Happiness

What's the secret to happiness: to have more control, or to see what googly life throws at you and take it as it comes? Professor Raj Raghunathan shares his unusual perspective on happiness, starting with a story about the man who got everything he wanted. Shah Rukh Khan joins him onstage to share his own perspective on a happy life.

Raj Raghunathan · Happiness researcher, author

Raj Raghunathan a professor of marketing at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He has a PhD from Stern School of Business, New York University and a BE in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani.

His key areas of research are happiness maximization and consumer well-being, decision making and hedonic and utilitarian consumption.