Emma Seppälä, PhD, is Co-Director of the Yale College Wellbeing Project. She is also a Lecturer at Yale, Faculty Director of the Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program, and author of The Happiness Track. In addition, she is Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.

Professor Baron’s research interests include human resources; organizational design and behavior; social stratification and inequality; work, labor markets, and careers; economic sociology; and entrepreneurial companies. Before coming to SOM in 2006, he taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business from 1982-2006. At Stanford, he taught the MBA core course, Human Resource Management. He was co-director of the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies (SPEC), a large-scale longitudinal study of the organizational design, human resource management practices, and financial and non-financial performance measures of entrepreneurial firms in Silicon Valley. Papers based on the project appeared in leading disciplinary journals, and an overview of the project in California Management Review won the 2003 Accenture Award for making “the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.”