Creativity - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

new ventures, this creates huge possibilities for an entrepreneur to identify the opportunities, get creative about assembling resources, and go after them with the knowledge that the potential for competitive advantage will be greater... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2012
News

Trying to be creative in a 'Dilbert' world

31 Jan 2011
News

Harvard Study: Creative People More Likely to Cheat

25 Apr 2012
News

What Doesn't Motivate Creativity Can Kill It

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt of lightning shivering the key at the end of a kite (Franklin).... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Managing in the Creative Economy

In the early 21st Century, especially in developed economies, work increasingly makes use of specialized knowledge, skill, and talent and creates value through transformation of symbols and other intangible materials to achieve outcomes different from what has been... View Details

May 2008
Conference Presentation

Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries

By: Anita Elberse

Keywords: Marketing Strategy

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November 2011
Article

Paradoxical Frames and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration

By: E. Miron-Spektor, F. Gino and L. Argote

Keywords: Creativity; Conflict and Resolution; Integration

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April 2014
Article

Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity

By: F. Gino and S. Wiltermuth

We propose that dishonest and creative behavior have something in common: they both involve breaking rules. Because of this shared feature, creativity may lead to dishonesty (as shown in prior work), and dishonesty may lead to creativity (the hypothesis we tested in... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Creativity; Attitudes

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22 Aug 2011
News

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

10 Jun 2015
News

The Surprising Ways Companies Can Foster Creativity

12 Mar 2013
Video

LearnX - Episode 1 - Creative Tension

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4. Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success

Joint work with Lee Fleming (Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School) and David Chen (Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Business School and Harvard School of... View Details

June 2009 (Revised March 2011)
Module Note

The Creative Industries: Managing Products and Product Portfolios

By: Anita Elberse

This module note examines the way in which professional content producers in the creative industries approach product and product portfolio management, and explores the underlying reasons for their strategies. View Details

Keywords: Entertainment; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing; Product Development; Production; Creativity

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29 May 2010
Conference Presentation

Tracking Creativity in the Wild

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity

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Article

Managing Creativity in Small Worlds

Keywords: Management; Creativity

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26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology