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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
Pay Check: Equity-Based Compensation and Incentives Creativity in a Crunch Nobody's Perfect. Now What? Last spring, a special symposium was held on campus in celebration of faculty research. The one-day event, sponsored by the Division of... View Details
- 1 Apr 1992
- Conference Presentation
Motivation, Creativity, and Learning
By: R. Conti, Teresa M. Amabile and S. Pollack
- 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
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Does 'Could' Lead to Good? On the Road to Moral Insight
Dilemmas featuring competing moral imperatives are prevalent in organizations and are difficult to resolve. Whereas prior research has focused on how individuals adjudicate among these moral imperatives, we study the factors that influence when individuals find... View Details
Keywords: Moral Insight; Ethical Dilemma; Could Mindset; Divergent Thinking; Moral Sensibility; Creativity; Decision Choices and Conditions
Zhang, Ting, Francesca Gino, and Joshua D. Margolis. "Does 'Could' Lead to Good? On the Road to Moral Insight." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 3 (June 2018): 857–895.
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Teresa M. Amabile | Working Knowledge
research investigates how people approach and experience the transition to retirement. Previously, her 45-year program of research on how the work environment can influence creativity and motivation yielded a theory of View Details
- August 1974 (Revised March 1986)
- Case
Architects Collaborative, Inc.
Although internationally recognized for quality design, the collaborative's billings have been on a plateau for four years and they are losing jobs to architects with sophisticated marketing practices. The main issue is how marketing can be integrated into a design... View Details
Wiechmann, Ulrich E., and Ralph Biggadike. "Architects Collaborative, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 575-016, August 1974. (Revised March 1986.)
- 2003
- Chapter
New Knowledge Creation: A Study in Positive Organizing
By: F Lee, A Caza, A. Edmondson and S. Thomke
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
New technologies such as computer simulations not only make experimentation faster and cheaper, they also enable companies to be more innovative. But achieving that requires a thorough understanding of the link between experimentation and learning. Briefly stated,... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
- June 2010
- Supplement
Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life, and Business (Video)
This video complements the case "Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life and Surviving an Economic Crisis." (810108) With extensive clips from live performances, Blue Man's three co-founders offer their perspective on creativity, life and business; and describe the birth and... View Details
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, and Shirley M. Spence. "Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life, and Business (Video)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 810-704, June 2010.
- 03 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
It Is Okay for Artists to Make Money…No, Really, It’s Okay
- 1986
- Book
Kigyou no Jiko-Kakushin: Chaos to Souzou no Management (Corporate Self-Innovation: Managing Chaos and Creativity)
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Kiyonori Sakakibara, Tadao Kagono, Akihiro Okumura and Ikujiro Nonaka
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can innovation and creativity be managed? Where do View Details
- Career Coach
Amber Wade
Amber is a marketing, brand and creative strategy vet with experiences spanning consumer tech (Microsoft), consumer packaged goods (Unilever) and most recently media and entertainment (creative agency). She’s ready to help anyone looking... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Impact of Culture Consistency on Subunit Outcomes
By: Jasmijn Bol, Robert Grasser, Serena Loftus and Tatiana Sandino
We examine the association between subunit culture consistency—defined as the congruence between the organizational values espoused by top management and those perceived and practiced by subunit employees—and subunit outcomes. Using data from 235 subunits of a... View Details
Bol, Jasmijn, Robert Grasser, Serena Loftus, and Tatiana Sandino. "The Impact of Culture Consistency on Subunit Outcomes." Working Paper, December 2024.
- March 2000
- Case
People's Light and Theatre Company, The
Describes in operational detail the activities involved in creating a collaborative and artistic product. Parallels to companies in dynamic industries emerge from the management philosophies and artistic methods of the case protagonist, Artistic Director Abigail Adams. View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Service Operations; Business Strategy; Theater Entertainment; Fine Arts Industry
Austin, Robert D. "People's Light and Theatre Company, The." Harvard Business School Case 600-055, March 2000.
- 2008
- Chapter
Artistic Methods and Business Disorganization
The idea that artists' work can usefully inform business practice has gained support in recent years. Managers have long described some business activities as "more art than science," but usually they've meant by this that they don't understand the activity and can't... View Details
Austin, Robert D., and Lee Devin. "Artistic Methods and Business Disorganization." In 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook, edited by Charles Wankel, 490–499. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008.
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
feedback on progress toward those goals. Creativity in Context by Teresa M. Amabile (Westview Press) This update of HBS professor Teresa Amabile's classic 1983 book, The Social Psychology of Creativity, includes extensive new theoretical... View Details
- 2011
- Dictionary Entry
Motivation
By: R. Conti and T. Amabile
Conti, R., and T. Amabile. "Motivation." In Encyclopedia of Creativity. 2nd ed. Edited by Mark A. Runco and Steven R. Pritzker. Academic Press, 2011.
- August 1998 (Revised October 1998)
- Case
Disney's "The Lion King" (B): The Synergy Group
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
In the late 1980s, Disney CEO Michael Eisner introduced a synergy group to the company's organizational structure. The synergy group was responsible for keeping all of Disney's divisions informed and updated on company projects and marketing strategies. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Creativity; Value; Organizational Structure; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. Disney's "The Lion King" (B): The Synergy Group. Harvard Business School Case 899-042, August 1998. (Revised October 1998.)