Creativity Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

Forming A Research Partnership Teresa Amabile discussed a comprehensive field study in which her research team collected confidential, personal work diaries from 238 white-collar employees at seven disparate companies. The key finding:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

managers can team with creative talent in six "culture industries": publishing, fashion, art-design, film, music, and food. Can Creativity Be Taught? Getting to Eureka!: How... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

dishes on la carta, and in every dish there is not one ingredient that's identical to another. They're all different." Pisano believes that managers and management scholars alike can learn an important lesson in Oldani's ability to marry View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

complexities and pressures. It's Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works (18,159) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6629.html Published: April 18, 2011 Managers who inundate their teams with the same messages, over and over,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

a token hire. Knowing the extended team around the business is diverse, can allay these concerns. Ask your investors to help sell the business to prospective candidates. This can be especially critical if you’re trying to hire a senior... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

19 Sep 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

showed, adopting radical simplicity can be the best approach to team creativity. Perhaps the best way to bolster innovation in employees is to draw a curtain around them, literally. It could well be that the best career decision you ever... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

September 2003 (Revised November 2005)
Case

Best Buy Co., Inc. (A): An Innovator's Journey

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey

The CEO of Best Buy, a hugely successful retailing company, has hired consulting firm Strategos to imbue the company with an improved innovative capability. The six-month program of experimental learning yields new business ideas and also trains Best Buy employees as... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Management Teams; Creativity; Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Learning; Training; Programs; Retail Industry; United States

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04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

effectively provide unconventional monetary stimulus by supporting the origination of debt that would not be originated otherwise. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51681 Creativity Under Fire: The... View Details

18 Nov 2009
HBS Case

Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu

prepared by Adrià and his team of thirty to forty cooks. The meal costs roughly 230 euros and represents hours of laborious research, testing, and preparation. In addition to engaging a diner's five senses, Adrià and his View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

learning and advice when members are already embedded in existing networks,” Koning and coauthor Sharique Hasan of Duke University argue in Prior ties and the limits of peer effects on startup team performance, published April 11 in... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

found a direct link between creativity and unethical behavior. According to the findings, inducing creativity in employees also inadvertently induces unethical behavior—a sobering thought in a corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

The key to managing innovation starts, and probably ends, with incentives. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations, Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner puts it this way:... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

personality, psychological insights, and talented hands can create wonderful effects that amaze an audience. It's just as much about the hard, creative work Randal puts in to continuously improve his art. “Organizations can do a wonderful... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative executive director Stacey Childress discusses the study and its implications for investors. Salls: Tell us about the study. What did the team set out to do? Childress: A team... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

in innovative capabilities, and increased employee engagement as a result. The programs vary but have seven major elements in common. Companies should 1) team with governments or nonprofits experienced in working with people with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

creativity and innovation on what you might think of as the demand side. How might [leaders] use space? How might they creatively think about ways to use the data and connectivity, or eventually the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

coming up with a solution that could be off-the-shelf. So when they actually see solutions from this type of method, they're blown away. Recently, an internal science team at a U.S.-based major biotechnology firm was assigned to develop a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

December 2017 Journal of Creative Behavior In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

"Artful," because it derives from the theory and practice of collaborative art and requires an artist-like attitude from managers and team members. "Making," because it requires that you conceive of your work as... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

learning to analyze images. Using these techniques, he took some 3,600 images of New York City blocks, obtained from the Google Street View Image API, and “taught” the computer to recognize various features, including streets, sidewalks, buildings, and trees. In their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

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