Creativity - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2012
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How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

By: Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer

Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways. This article is based on analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation Strategy; Performance; Strategic Planning; Leading Change; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose

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12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

among lenders, investors, suppliers, employees, and so on. Recently this perspective has again been confirmed by Amar Bhidé's systematic study of the "bootstrap" entrepreneur. Schumpeter himself associated entrepreneurship with innovation. Schumpeter defined... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

10 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

entrepreneurs,” Koning says. “It’s especially hard if you run a car wash outside Nairobi. And now, here’s a technology that allows us to put a phenomenal business adviser in the pockets of billions of people.” You Might Also Like: Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

trenches. “The creative work is always challenging and fun, but I had become frustrated by how onerous, expensive, and slow it was to do a good job of checking the availability of new names and brands,” she says. “The whole process needed... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1998
News

A Marketable Skill

talented, artistically, but I was good at managing creative types." After sharpening those management skills at HBS, Gehrke held a succession of marketing jobs with big companies but never stayed in one place too long. "I need to run... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

16 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

it. Or by the time they do, it doesn't matter." But older and larger companies need not despair. By asking new questions, challenging conventional wisdom, and encouraging a steady flow of new ideas, established firms like Charles Schwab have demonstrated their... View Details

Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

McFarlan's high-spirited session, called "Global Internet and E-Commerce Strategies in the 21st Century," stressed the creative approaches four companies—Li & Fung, Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., and Merrill... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

uncertainty, and embrace it. Lorena is a bit more structured and methodical. Our strengths naturally complement each other, and balance each other out, so I work on the growth strategies and more creative side of the business, while... View Details

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Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising

of almanacs annually. Advertisers took another creative leap with the production of novelty items, the precursors to bubble gum cards, Cracker Jack Toys, and other souvenir collectibles of the twentieth century. Offshoots of trade cards... View Details

Profile

Fereshteh Zeineddin

headquarters in New York, I was excited to be offered an opportunity to join the company in Toronto after graduation. What are you most looking forward to in your career? I am looking forward to infusing my own creativity and personality... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Jun 2004
News

Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference

I see it as being the most creative and innovative time in the industry. It’s the Wild West,” said Ceci Kurzman, vice president of worldwide marketing for Epic Records Group. “The record business may be in decline, but the music business... View Details

Keywords: women in business; women's student association; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 2002
News

Thinking Outside the Centerfold

most noted for have nothing to do with advertising and everything to do with advertising. We're this hybrid company that creates and distributes creative content designed to make brands famous.” View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Senior Lecturer John Macomber grew up working for the George B.H.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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Joanna Barsh

see past my mother's recent death and into my future. We began a creative expression exercise; in a fit of emotion, I ripped up a sheath of colored papers and pasted the torn pieces on black background to create an explosion of power.... View Details

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Staff | Information Technology

Setting Up Two-Step Verification Training Daily Work Resources that enable you to be productive both on and off campus. Adobe Creative Cloud Budgeting ChatGPT Edu Computer Upgrades Generative AI Tools at HBS Information Security Marketing... View Details

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IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design | Information Technology

Facing competition from streaming services and increased piracy, Cineplanet sought IDEO’s expertise. Together, they redesigned every facet of their customer experience—from the company’s website to their lobbies. For this request, IDEO embarked on a multi-week trip to... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria

they will be solved when people with expertise in a wide range of areas—from artificial intelligence to human behavior to medicine to finance—collaborate, each learning from the others as their collective imaginations coalesce into powerful ideas, practical solutions,... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard

Immelt In June, Class Day speaker Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA ’82), chairman and CEO of General Electric, sent 878 MBA graduates off into the world with a pep talk in which he cited competitiveness and creativity as keys to business success.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Aaron Chadbourne

styles Aaron believes that professors "teach very differently at each school. The Law School emphasizes logic and has forced me to examine the way I reach conclusions. HBS is more creative – there's more freedom to explore ideas... View Details

20 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Exploring Cleantech at HBS

Get creative when looking for classes and events: look for adjacent topics as well, like infrastructure, water, and agriculture. Entrepreneurial Finance is an even less obvious source of many of the cleantech-related cases at HBS. 3. Stay... View Details

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