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- 2019
- Chapter
The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process
BOOK ABSTRACT: The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M. "The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process." Chap. 2 in The Creativity Reader, edited by Vlad P. Glăveanu. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
- Module Note
The Sweet Hereafter Summary: Reasoning from Personal Perspective
By: Sandra J. Sucher
A summary of the major themes discussed in the sixth class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details
Sucher, Sandra J. "The Sweet Hereafter Summary: Reasoning from Personal Perspective." Harvard Business School Module Note 607-070, February 2007. (Revised March 2007.)
- 01 Apr 1995
- Conference Presentation
Exploratory Analysis of the Creative Process in Problem Solving
By: J. Ruscio, Teresa M. Amabile and D. Whitney
- 1 Aug 2003 - 6 Aug 2003
- Conference Presentation
The Influence of Time Pressure on Creative Thinking in Organizations
By: Teresa M. Amabile, J. S. Mueller, W. B. Simpson, L. Fleming and C. N. Hadley
- January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
- Background Note
Ways of Thinking About and Across Difference
Examines some of the habitual ways of thinking that are applied to so-called "diversity" questions to reveal the commonalities and limitations of these models--the way they can reinforce unexamined assumptions and destructuve emotional reactions--and to suggest an... View Details
Gentile, Mary C. "Ways of Thinking About and Across Difference." Harvard Business School Background Note 395-117, January 1995. (Revised June 1995.)
- 2013
- Article
What Goes Up Must Come Down? Experimental Evidence on Intuitive Forecasting
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Andreas Fuster, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Do laboratory subjects correctly perceive the dynamics of a mean-reverting time series? In our experiment, subjects receive historical data and make forecasts at different horizons. The time series process that we use features short-run momentum and long-run partial... View Details
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, Andreas Fuster, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "What Goes Up Must Come Down? Experimental Evidence on Intuitive Forecasting." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 103, no. 3 (May 2013): 570–574.
- March–April 2015
- Article
Why We Think We Can't Dance: Theory of Mind and Children's Desire to Perform
By: Lan Nguyen Chaplin and Michael I. Norton
Theory of Mind (ToM) allows children to achieve success in the social world by understanding others' minds. A study with 3–12 year olds, however, demonstrates that gains in ToM are linked to decreases in children's desire to engage in performative behaviors associated... View Details
Chaplin, Lan Nguyen, and Michael I. Norton. "Why We Think We Can't Dance: Theory of Mind and Children's Desire to Perform." Child Development 86, no. 2 (March–April 2015): 651–658.
- 2014
- Article
Thought Calibration: How Thinking Just the Right Amount Increases One’s Influence and Appeal
By: Daniella Kupor, Zakary L. Tormala, Michael I. Norton and Derek D. Rucker
Previous research suggests that people draw inferences about their attitudes and preferences based on their own thoughtfulness. The current research explores how observing other individuals make decisions more or less thoughtfully can shape perceptions of those... View Details
Keywords: Thoughtfulness; Liking; Social Influence; Decisions; Attitudes; Cognition and Thinking; Power and Influence
Kupor, Daniella, Zakary L. Tormala, Michael I. Norton, and Derek D. Rucker. "Thought Calibration: How Thinking Just the Right Amount Increases One’s Influence and Appeal." Social Psychological & Personality Science 5, no. 3 (April 2014): 263–270.
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
the past few years, or the fantasy that the market for derivatives could somehow regulate itself—the consequences of all we are dealing with this very day. Denial is not merely being wrong. Everybody makes mistakes. Denial is falling into a View Details
- March 2006
- Article
Do I Contribute More When I Trust More?: Differential Effects of Cognition- and Affect-based Trust
By: K. Y. Ng and Roy Y.J. Chua
Ng, K. Y., and Roy Y.J. Chua. "Do I Contribute More When I Trust More?: Differential Effects of Cognition- and Affect-based Trust." Management and Organization Review 2, no. 1 (March 2006): 43–66.
- June 2008
- Article
From the Head and the Heart: Locating Cognition- and Affect-based Trust in Managers' Professional Networks
By: Roy Y.J. Chua, P. Ingram and M. Morris
Chua, Roy Y.J., P. Ingram, and M. Morris. "From the Head and the Heart: Locating Cognition- and Affect-based Trust in Managers' Professional Networks." Academy of Management Journal 51, no. 3 (June 2008): 436–452.
- October 2013
- Article
With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
By: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier
To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Ulrike Malmendier. "With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 10 (October 2013): 2411–2452. (Earlier versions distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 16918 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 11-108.)
- 01 Apr 1995
- Conference Presentation
Effects of Planning on Problem-Solving Creativity
By: D. Whitney, J. Ruscio, Teresa M. Amabile and M. Castle
- 1998
- Article
Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance
By: J. Ruscio, D. M. Whitney and T. M. Amabile
This study set out to identify specific task behaviors that predict observable product creativity in three domains and to identify which of those behaviors mediate the well-established link between intrinsic motivation and creativity. One-hundred fifty-one... View Details
Ruscio, J., D. M. Whitney, and T. M. Amabile. "Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance." Creativity Research Journal 11, no. 3 (1998): 243–263.
- 2004
- Article
Teaching Students How to Reason Well by Analogy
By: Giovanni Gavetti and Jan Rivkin
Gavetti, Giovanni, and Jan Rivkin. "Teaching Students How to Reason Well by Analogy." Journal of Strategic Management Education 1, no. 2 (2004).
- Column
It's Not Intuitive: Strategies for Negotiating More Rationally
By: M. H. Bazerman and Deepak Malhotra
Bazerman, M. H., and Deepak Malhotra. "It's Not Intuitive: Strategies for Negotiating More Rationally." Negotiation 9, no. 5 (May 2006).
- 2015
- Chapter
Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
By: Srikant Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
In 2012 we set out to answer two key questions. Can anyone, including MBAs and executives with superb analytical skills, learn to think more innovatively? If so, how might we go about developing these skills? Through close collaboration with individuals from major... View Details
Keywords: Design Thinking; Problem Solving; Innovation; Design; Innovation and Invention; Cognition and Thinking
Datar, Srikant, and Caitlin N. Bowler. "Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving." Chap. 7 in Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development, edited by Jordi Canals, 119–138. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- 1992
- Chapter
Negotiator Rationality and Negotiator Cognition: The Interactive Roles of Prescriptive and Descriptive Research
By: M. H. Bazerman and M. A. Neale
- Article
Coarse Thinking and Persuasion
By: Sendhil Mullainathan, Joshua Schwartzstein and Andrei Shleifer
We present a model of uninformative persuasion in which individuals "think coarsely": they group situations into categories and apply the same model of inference to all situations within a category. Coarse thinking exhibits two features that persuaders take advantage... View Details
Mullainathan, Sendhil, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Andrei Shleifer. "Coarse Thinking and Persuasion." Quarterly Journal of Economics 123, no. 2 (May 2008): 577–619.
- Aug 2005 - 2005
- Conference Presentation
The Innovative Capacity of Institutional Entrepreneurs: Mechanisms for Generating Alternative Ideas
By: Julie Battilana and E. Boxenbaum