Holmes, Cassie: - Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Trained as a social psychologist, she earned her PhD at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and her BA at Columbia. An award-winning teacher and researcher on the role of time in cultivating happiness and satisfaction in life, Holmes's work has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, the Economist, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic and the Washington Post. Happier Hour is her first book.