Female Career Award 2024 goes to Prof. Cassie Mogilner Holmes, UCLA

By exploring how temporal choices influence happiness and personal satisfaction, Cassie Mogilner Holmes, UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, has advanced the science of well-being. Combining research and application, she has developed practical methods to help individuals and managers live better. Her book Happier Hour, a Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2022, has reached a wide audience, as has her popular MBA course Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.

Prof. Mogilner Holmes has been recommended by the Marketing Department at HEC Lausanne for her outstanding academic contribution. "Prof. Mogilner Holmes stands as an inspiring role model for the academic community, producing timely and relevant insights for our society in which alleviating time stress is a pressing priority," comments Isabelle Engeler, professor of marketing and co-chair of the Equality Commission at HEC Lausanne. "Her contributions go far beyond research and teaching excellence; she is deeply committed to mentoring the next generation of academics and enriches the field with her infectiously positive perspective. We are honored to present her with this award in person on November 19," she concludes.

Her work has been published in leading journals in psychology and behavioral science, and her career has been marked by prestigious awards such as Marketing Science Institute Scholar (2023), Favorite MBA Professors from Poets & Quants (2020), and Journal of Consumer Research Best Article Award (2017).

Awards ceremony and research seminar

The HEC Faculty is delighted to welcome Prof. Mogilner Holmes for the awards ceremony and a seminar on November 19th. Entitled “The Unhappiness of Time Poverty”, this seminar will focus on her current research into the relationship between time poverty and well-being, and ways of reducing the constant sense of urgency that marks our daily lives. More info