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

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 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces. The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone initially called "insane." The... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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

01 Jun 2002
News

HBS Students Negotiate a Victory

as a team. “We trusted each other 100 percent,” Kapadia told the Harbus. “I was confident that Patrick would always say the right thing, and I think he felt that way as well.” In the end, the HBS team (representing airline management)... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

spring 1987
Article

Facilitating Group Creativity: Experience with a Group Decision Support System

By: J. Nunamaker, L. M. Applegate and B. Konsynski

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Creativity; Decision Making

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01 Dec 2017
News

Research Brief: Better Brainstorming

having a high verbal fluency and a willingness to share). The budding entrepreneurs were then asked to work together to come up with new software products for the booming Indian wedding industry. The ideas generated by the teams were... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2011
News

Welcome to the Future

creativity in mind. These spaces are designed to enable and facilitate HBS’s new required FIELD course, which focuses on intensive small-group exercises and team dynamics, activity not well-suited for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Construction of Buildings; Construction

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

17 Dec 2015
News

Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab

Professor Srikant Datar’s creative problem-solving course, Design Thinking and Innovation, brings students together to hone their skills in identifying opportunities, prototyping solutions, and iterating to meet customer needs. “Creative... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Making Finance Personal

there’s one thing I’ve learned in business, it’s the power of rapid-fire experimentation: enabling your team to test, rapidly change, iterate, and test again. Run experiments with customers and let them vote, instead of relying on the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional 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

01 Mar 2007
News

Pursuing a passion

professions — from physicists to cooks — to understand how creative breakthroughs happen,” she notes. “He found that very often the most important creative breakthroughs happen where different perspectives... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Career Coach

Crystal Yao

Crystal is particularly interested in helping students understand careers in Sports, Media, and Entertainment and Big Tech, as well as functional careers in General Management, Strategy Consulting, Business Development, and Sales & Marketing. Having previously led a... View Details

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

01 Mar 2007
News

The Joy of Work

Unit, and faculty chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS. For the past several years, Amabile, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University, has been analyzing findings from her longitudinal research on View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Business of the Arts Course Number 6913 Baker Foundation Professor Rohit Deshpande Senior Lecturer Henry McGee Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Ten afternoon class sessions plus 2-5 hours per week of team work.... View Details

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A-Z List of Tools | Information Technology

A-Z List of Tools An alphabetical list Login information may be required to access some of the links in this list. 3 3Play A Adobe Creative Suite & Components Alumni Portal B Buy-to-Pay C Canvas Case Template Catering Classroom &... View Details

13 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?

team is eager to share with Smart’s management the product recommendations that we have created and packaged in a polished PowerPoint presentation. How did a formerly rag-tag group of unfamiliar individuals, consisting of a View Details

14 Dec 2015
Blog Post

5 Facts About HBS Conferences

conference team of 5-6 additional students and we were off to the races! I knew it would take a lot of effort to continue the conference’s legacy, but it’s much less daunting when you’re surrounded by such capable, View Details

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