Creativity Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

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

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

moment that launches a powerful idea or brilliant product. Managers can use these insights to form teams that create better ideas. “Much of innovation is premised on the idea that you should talk to other people to generate ideas,” says... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

human creativity and ingenuity always find a way around any new rules, as it did in this last crisis? And finally, how can—in practical terms—we get rid of the "too big to fails," without increasing state intervention further?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

inclusion in organizations enhances various kinds of performance, from creativity to profitability. A growing body of research tells us this. So they are not just the right things to do; there is both an economic and social argument for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

into summary statistics.” You Might Also Like: From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World? How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication links, geographic collocation,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Feb 2020
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

to human engagement with the energy, loyalty, productivity, and creativity it generates both on and off the job. She says, “At their core, rebels are engaged.” In other words, if you’re seeking strategic agility and innovation, staff with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 25

decisions about resources, performance measurement, and compensation are made. Cases & Course MaterialsAffinity Plus (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-026 The executive team at Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union has pushed the... View Details