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  • May 2011
  • Article

The Power of Small Wins

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an analysis of knowledge workers' diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Behavior; Happiness; Perception; Trust; Time Management; Resource Allocation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles
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  • 20 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

says Battilana, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, who, for more than a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • September 2020
  • Article

Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises

By: Teresa M. Amabile
In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of highly novel, yet appropriate, ideas, problem solutions, or other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; AI Creativity; Computer Science; Organizational Behavior; Psychology; Creativity; Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact

“Even incremental small wins can contribute to what we call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor. Amabile’s current research focuses on the psychology of everyday work life: how events in the... View Details
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Purchase Related Greenwood, Robin, Denise Han, Dave Habeeb, and Ruth Page. "Faena: Magic in Mid-Miami Beach." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 225-701, September 2024. More Publications Faculty Max H. Bazerman Teresa M. View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

Creativity’s reputation as a mysterious, unknowable trait (something of a myth in itself) has led to some erroneous ideas about what it is and how it functions in organizations. Here, Professor Teresa View Details
Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 2016
  • Article

The Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Making Progress, Making Meaning

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Michael G. Pratt
Leveraging insights gained through a burgeoning research literature over the past 28 years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This... View Details
Keywords: Progress; Meaningful Work; Affect; Creativity; Organizations; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

The Musts of 2023

the technology and where it's going—and while there are a lot of good things It's going to improve our quality of life. It's going to make things easier. But at the same time, it can easily be misused as now we see what has happened to that technology which was... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

standards (IAS) in 2005. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106073   PublicationsStudying Creativity, Its Processes, and Its Antecedents: An Exploration of the Componential Theory of Creativity Authors:T. M. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

What Really Motivates Workers

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer
This essay appears in "The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010," which is compiled by this journal in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The ten problems and the innovative solutions are discussed in each essay. This particular essay describes research... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Innovation and Invention; Research; Performance Improvement; Managerial Roles; Motivation and Incentives; Creativity
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  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
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AASU50 - Alumni

Stephanie Atiase, MBA 2011 Khary Barnes, MBA 2008 Lisa Bourne, MBA 2002 Nina Bowman, MBA 1994 Heidi Brooks, MBA 2003 Jason Brown, MBA 2007 Ronald Brown, MBA 1973 Michael Carter PLDA 2017 Anthia Christian, MBA 1997 Teresa Clarke, MBA 1988... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner work life, often unwittingly. As Teresa View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

crucial projects we really need to get done. In fact, when we are distracted from a task, it can take 19 minutes to refocus on what we were doing, according to creativity expert Teresa Amabile, Edsel Bryant Ford View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Faculty News

Changes Several chaired professors, listed at right with their new titles, have moved to vacated professorships. Teresa M. Amabile Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 2022
  • Article

The Turn Toward Creative Work

By: Spencer Harrison, Elizabeth D. Rouse, Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile
In this Academy of Management Collections essay, we curate a set of articles from the Academy of Management family of journals that showcase the evolution of creativity research within organizational scholarship. The articles reveal a shift from the study of... View Details
Keywords: Creative Work; Creative Process; Creativity; Organizational Culture
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  • 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... View Details
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

  PublicationsMeeting the Challenges of a Person-Centric Work Psychology Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer Publication:Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice (forthcoming) An abstract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Organization Need to Know Professor Emerita Teresa Amabile 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT + More Info – Less Info Most organizations have a standard process for the retirement... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Faculty Research Online

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time Is Not on Your Side Even as time pressures increase in corporate life, the need for creative thinking has never been greater, says Professor Teresa View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services