A Stanford marketing professor is teaching her students — and company execs with AOL, Facebook, and Adobe — how to find and export joy.

Offering a happiness class to Graduate School of Business students at one of the country's leading business schools does sound a bit touchy-feely. Yet, last fall, 80 of these type-A students signed up for Aaker's graduate-level course called "Designing Happiness" — with another 100 clamoring to get in.

But Aaker's work is gaining attention not just in academia but also in corporate America: She has worked with AOL, Adobe, and Facebook, among other companies, helping them figure out how to use happiness to increase employees' productivity and woo customers.

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