Publications

Research Summary

How Executives and Artists Approach Ill-Structured Problems

By: Gerald Zaltman

An ill-structured problem is one which is not routine, has no obvious best answer, and even the nature of the problem may be unclear. Ill-structured problems tend to be particularly significant when they arise. Using ZMET, this research investigates how experienced... View Details

22 Jan 2015
News

Business Skills for Artists

06 Apr 2023
Video

Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art

01 Jun 2006
News

Artist Christo Visits HBS

To illustrate entrepreneurship from a different angle, HBS professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon and research associate Ann Leamon wrote a case about Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-wife team known for their massive, self-funded outdoor art projects. (Their... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Web

Artist Support | Baker Library

Artist Support Photo: Ansel Adams and Gerry Sharpe, test photograph by Ansel Adams, 1958, © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Polaroid Corporation Corporate Archives Records, b. IX.42, f. 4. Meroë Morse served as Polaroid’s liaison... View Details

18 Jun 2012
News

Web Sites Illuminate Unknown Artists

Article

Artists as Amateurs and Volunteers

By: Arthur C. Brooks

1984
Article

Children's Artistic Creativity: Effects of Choice in Task Materials

By: T. M. Amabile and J. Gitomer

Preschool boys and girls made collages using a subset of a large array of materials. Half of the children were allowed to choose those materials they would use. For the rest of the children, the choice was made by the experimenter. Children in the no-choice condition... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Social Psychology; Decision Choices and Conditions

25 Aug 2013
News

Needed at Microsoft: A Catch-Up Artist

25 Aug 2013
News

The Needed at Microsoft: A Catch-Up Artist

February 1979
Article

Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile

Examined the conditions under which the imposition of an extrinsic constraint upon performance of an activity can lead to decrements in creativity. 95 female undergraduates worked on an art activity either with or without the expectation of external evaluation. In... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Social Psychology; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment

1 Apr 1978
Conference Presentation

Effects of Evaluation Expectation on Artistic Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Creativity

October 2019 (Revised April 2020)
Case

Carme Ruscalleda: The Chef as an Artist

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Annelena Lobb

In October 2018, Chef Carme Ruscalleda, the most-starred woman chef in the world at the time, closed the doors of her Restaurant Sant Pau (Sant Pau), as she had on almost every night for the past 30 years—this time for the last time. Ruscalleda had opened the... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants; Sant Pau; Personal Development and Career; Family Business; Leadership Style; Innovation and Invention; Food; Success; Food and Beverage Industry

Educators

23 Jan 2017
News

Helping Warli artists profit from their work

03 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

It Is Okay for Artists to Make Money…No, Really, It’s Okay

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Lee Devin; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Jul 2015
News

Can Artists and Labels Change Behavior With Technology?

1982
Article

Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting

By: T. M. Amabile

Girls whose ages ranged from 7 to 11 years made paper collages during 1 of 2 residential parties. Those in the experimental group were competing for prizes, whereas those in the control group expected that the prizes would be raffled off. Artist-judges later rated each... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Competition; Teaching