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- 22 Aug 2011
- News
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
- August 1985 (Revised January 1986)
- Background Note
Note on Managing Creativity
Kao, John J. "Note on Managing Creativity." Harvard Business School Background Note 486-010, August 1985. (Revised January 1986.)
- 16 Aug 2012
- News
Clean desks kill creativity
- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Exercise in Creativity
- 1989
- Article
The Creative Environment Scales: The Work Environment Inventory
By: T. M. Amabile and N. Gryskiewicz
The Creative Environment Scales Work Environment Inventory (WEI) is a new paper-and-pencil instrument designed to assess stimulants and obstacles to creativity in the work environment. Unlike many instruments that are designed as comprehensive descriptions of the work... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Working Conditions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Amabile, T. M., and N. Gryskiewicz. "The Creative Environment Scales: The Work Environment Inventory." Creativity Research Journal 2 (1989): 231–254.
- 16 Jun 2012
- News
Trying to be creative in a 'Dilbert' world
- 10 Jun 2015
- News
The Surprising Ways Companies Can Foster Creativity
- Article
Managing Creativity in Small Worlds
Fleming, Lee, and Matt Marx. "Managing Creativity in Small Worlds." California Management Review 48, no. 4 (Summer 2006): 6–27. (
Winner of Accenture Award For the article published in the California Management Review that has made the most important contribution to improving the practice of management
.)- Research Summary
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
- 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
- 25 Apr 2012
- News
What Doesn't Motivate Creativity Can Kill It
- 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
Elberse, Anita. "The Creative Industries: Managing Products and Product Portfolios." Harvard Business School Module Note 509-077, June 2009. (Revised March 2011.)
- 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
- November 2011
- Article
Paradoxical Frames and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration
By: E. Miron-Spektor, F. Gino and L. Argote
Miron-Spektor, E., F. Gino, and L. Argote. "Paradoxical Frames and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 116, no. 2 (November 2011): 229–240.
- 1983
- Book
The Social Psychology of Creativity
By: T. M. Amabile
Keywords: Creativity
Amabile, T. M. The Social Psychology of Creativity. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1983.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The art of thinking creatively
Gerald W. Schwartz’s (MBA 1970) endeavors to enhance education at HBS are visible in the very halls he once traversed. On a mission to introduce thought-provoking artwork into the main classroom buildings at the School, Schwartz hopes to help business leaders be View Details
- November 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Creativity under the Gun at Litmus Corporation
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Yana Litovsky
Teaches students to diagnose the circumstances under which time pressure can facilitate or hinder creativity. A team's creative "genius", Miles Grady, who previously conceptualized a revolutionary material for an important new product, must now significantly change... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M., and Yana Litovsky. "Creativity under the Gun at Litmus Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 808-075, November 2007. (Revised May 2008.)