creativity - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2019 (Revised June 2020)
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Market for Judgement: The Creative Destruction Lab

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Hong Luo and Laura Katsnelson

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03 May 2012
News

Does high stress trigger creativity at work?

01 Nov 2019
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The Particular Creativity of Dense Urban Neighborhoods

28 Aug 2018
News

Three Science-Backed Tricks To Improve Your Creativity

20 May 2016
News

The Most Creative People in Business 2016

Illustration by Peter Arkle for Fast Company Illustration by Peter Arkle for Fast Company Fast Company recently released its Most Creative People in Business 2016 list, and HBS alumni claim 5 of the 100 spots. They run the gamut, ranging... View Details

February 2007 (Revised April 2010)
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics

By: Robert S. Huckman, Gary P. Pisano and Mark Rennella

Describes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making within drug discovery and (2) institute numerical metrics--jointly affecting all R&D scientists--for the progression... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Creativity; Pharmaceutical Industry

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January 2013
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Not Just for Stereotyping Anymore: Racial Essentialism Reduces Domain-General Creativity

By: Carmit Tadmor, Melody Chao, Ying-yi Hong and Jeff Polzer

Individuals who believe that racial groups have fixed underlying essences use stereotypes more than do individuals who believe that racial categories are arbitrary and malleable social-political constructions. Would this essentialist mind-set also lead to less... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Creativity; Race

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2020
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Subjective Semantic Surprise Resulting from Divided Attention Biases Evaluations of an Idea’s Creativity

By: Goran Calic, Nour El Shamy, Isaac Kinley, Scott Watter and Khaled Hassanein

The evaluation of an idea’s creativity constitutes an important step in successfully responding to an unexpected problem with a new solution. Yet, distractions compete for cognitive resources with the evaluation process and may change how individuals evaluate ideas. In... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking

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Aug 30 2017
Interview

Break the Daily Rhythm to Foster Creative Insights

28 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

workers to get their creative juices flowing. “It turns out, on average, these gig workers are very responsive to competition,” says Zhu, who co-authored the forthcoming article Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

February 2025
Teaching Note

Moleskine Foundation: Can Creativity Change the World?

By: Alexandra C. Feldberg and Ryan Raffaelli

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Other Unpublished Work

Creative Financing of New York City Projects

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Urban Scope; New York (city, NY)

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01 Jun 2011
News

Want Creative Workers? Loosen the Reins, Boss

1 Aug 1998
Conference Presentation

The Relationship between Work Environment and Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile, J. Weinstock and S. Archambault

Keywords: Creativity

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July 1995 (Revised December 1996)
Background Note

Process of Creative Destruction, The: Business Transformation

By: Richard L. Nolan

Keywords: Creativity; Transformation

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Helping at Work

By: Teresa M. Amabile

This research focuses on collaboration and helping in creative project teams. Colin Fisher (UCL), Julianna Pillemer (NYU Stern School), and I developed a multi-year research program examining help received and given, including successful and unsuccessful helping... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Helping; Creativity; Creative Industries