A number of years ago, as a newly-minted assistant professor at Harvard Business School, I sought advice from several senior faculty members. I wanted their tips about how to succeed at the art of ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A humanities professor walks into a bar and begins an act of hermeneutical exegesis. He does not have a parrot on his shoulder. He is not sitting next to a dwarf. The ...

Humor is a secret weapon in business and life. That is the subtitle of Humor, Seriously, a book by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas. As consultants and business school professors, Aaker and Bagdonas ...

Laughter also has social value: it promotes unity, gets at truths, allows us to broach tough subjects. Research has even shown that people who make us laugh are more influential and easier to forgive.

We start losing our sense of humor at age 23 -- and get more serious as we age. NY Post photo composite As humans age, terrible things happen to us. Our muscles atrophy, our eyes deteriorate, we DVR ...

How can you get ahead in your career and still enjoy the ride? Fortunately, you don’t have to tell sidesplitting jokes to make humor work for you. You can learn to think like a comedian instead.