by Teresa Amabile - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Feb 2020
News

Mapping Out a Fulfilling Retirement

17 Aug 2020
News

The Power of Low-Stakes Productivity

12 Jan 2016
News

Why What Happens Every Day Means More Than Scoring a Big Success

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

justifying my choices by telling myself what a lot of us tell ourselves: that we’re working hard now so we will have more time to be happy later,” she says. “We all need to make better decisions on the margins, so we don’t wake up one day... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 May 2014
News

The Case For And Against Stressful Deadlines

10 Jun 2015
News

The Surprising Ways Companies Can Foster Creativity

14 Apr 2020
News

The Coronavirus Puzzle Boom Is Not Puzzling at All

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

2018 Individual Creativity in the Workplace An Integrated Model of Dynamic Problem Solving within Organizational Constraints By: Cromwell, Johnathan R., Teresa M. Amabile, and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Rapid technological change,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Mar 2013
News

Advancing the World's Leading Women

18 Feb 2015
News

Inside the Psychology of Productivity

08 Jan 2012
News

Progress Principle: You're More Important Than You Think

10 Apr 2013
News

How to Deal With Your Dead-End Job

19 Feb 2015
News

Work From a Stranger’s House

16 Mar 2013
News

Looking for a Lesson in Google’s Perks

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

In Bangalore, a state-of-the-art hospital staffed by Western-trained physicians treats anyone suffering from a heart ailment. It accepts patients regardless of caste, class, religion, and perhaps most surprisingly, their ability to pay... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

19 Jul 2015
News

If World Leaders Can Skip Deadlines, Why Can’t I?

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... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2024
News

The Golden Thread

Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

Ideal Laboratory In the early 90s, Hewlett-Packard seemed a perfect setting for innovations in pay. A so-called "built-to-last" company, it was highly decentralized and enjoyed a sense of mutual trust, high commitment, and wide use of management View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

managers do can have great impact on their workers, says Professor Teresa Amabile. In this conversation with Professor Mike Roberts, she updates her ongoing research on creativity in the workplace by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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