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## Segment 1 — spine

## Article 19 — a019

# Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

**Role in the source:** Co-author of the HBR article. An economist specializing in **happiness and productivity** and Director of the **Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford**. He supplies the article's empirical backbone.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- The well-being→productivity evidence in [[claim-wellbeing-drives-productivity]] (happy workers ~13% more productive; drawn from his research program, including BT call-center experiments).
- The **well-being lever** in [[framework-three-behavioral-levers]].
- Co-authorship of the framing quotes [[quote-inventing-the-future]] and [[quote-pilots-over-passengers]].

Co-authors: [[entity-jeffrey-t-hancock|Jeffrey T. Hancock]] and [[entity-kate-niederhoffer|Kate Niederhoffer]].