An initiative by the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare & Happiness
What is its Happiness Impact?
A question we believe will become part of the international language of business, research and public policy.
Organizations shape our lives every day. Yet we rarely ask one of the most important questions of all: How does this organization affect people's happiness and wellbeing? It is time to measure what matters most.
The initiative
What is Happiness Impact?
Happiness Impact is a science-based framework for understanding how organizations affect people's happiness and wellbeing.
Developed by the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness at the Stockholm School of Economics, it measures organizations through the experiences of the people whose lives they affect. The annual Happiness Impact Ranking presents the results of this research.
But Happiness Impact is more than a ranking. It is an international research initiative with a long-term ambition to establish Happiness Impact as a new way of understanding organizations and their role in people's lives.
Science-based
Built on contemporary wellbeing research and developed by the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Consumer-based
Organizations are evaluated through the experiences of the people whose lives they affect — not through organizational self-assessments.
International
A globally scalable framework — beginning in Sweden, expanding across the Nordic region, and growing through international research partnerships.
Insights
Ideas shape the future before data does
Explore the thinking behind Happiness Impact through our Founding Essay, articles and future research publications.
The rankings
The Happiness Impact Ranking
Every year, Happiness Impact measures how organizations contribute to people's happiness and wellbeing. The results are presented through the annual Happiness Impact Ranking.
Sweden
The first national Happiness Impact study — the inaugural edition of the ranking. The results are out.
See the Sweden 2026 resultsSweden · Norway · Finland
The initiative expands across the Nordic region with three national studies.
A global measure
Our long-term ambition: to establish Happiness Impact as a globally recognized measure across countries.
Happiness Impact Explorer
Happiness Impact is becoming more than an annual study. Explorer will become the interactive home of the initiative — allowing users to explore organizations, compare countries, discover trends and better understand Happiness Impact over time.
Discover what's comingBring Happiness Impact to your country
We are building an international network of universities, research institutes and other organizations committed to advancing research on how organizations affect people's happiness and wellbeing. We welcome partners who want to conduct national Happiness Impact studies and contribute to a growing international platform.
Become a Country Partner →One question
“What is its Happiness Impact?”
We hope that, in the near future, asking this question will feel as natural as asking about financial performance, customer satisfaction or sustainability. That is our ambition. It is time to measure what matters most.