Teresa Amabile
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Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford
Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School
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Amabile's most recent discoveries appear in her book, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. Published in August 2011 by Harvard Business Review Press, the book is co-authored with Amabile’s husband and collaborator, Steven Kramer, Ph.D. Her other books include Creativity in Context and Growing Up Creative.
Amabile has published over 100 scholarly articles and chapters, in outlets including top journals in psychology (such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and American Psychologist) and in management (Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal). She is also the author of The Work Preference Inventory and KEYS to Creativity and Innovation. Amabile has used insights from her research in working with various groups in business, government, and education, including Procter & Gamble, Novartis International AG, Motorola, IDEO, and the Creative Education Foundation. She has presented her theories, research results, and practical implications in dozens of forums, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Young Presidents’ Organization annual university, and the Front End of Innovation annual conference.
At Harvard Business School, Amabile has taught MBA and executive courses on managing for creativity, leadership, and ethics. Previously, at Brandeis University, she taught social psychology, organizational psychology, the psychology of creativity, and statistics. She served as the host-instructor of the 26-part series, Against All Odds: Inside Statistics, originally broadcast on PBS.http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=tamabile
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Edsel Bryant Ford , son of Henry Ford, was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was president of Ford Motor Company from 1919 until his death in 1943.-Life and career:...
Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
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Biography
Teresa Amabile is primarily known for her research and writing on creativity, dating to the late 1970s. Originally educated as a chemist, Amabile received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University in 1977. She now studies how everyday life inside organizations can influence people and their performance. Her research encompasses creativity, productivity, innovation, and inner work life – the confluence of emotions, perceptions, and motivation that people experience as they react to events at work.Amabile's most recent discoveries appear in her book, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. Published in August 2011 by Harvard Business Review Press, the book is co-authored with Amabile’s husband and collaborator, Steven Kramer, Ph.D. Her other books include Creativity in Context and Growing Up Creative.
Amabile has published over 100 scholarly articles and chapters, in outlets including top journals in psychology (such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and American Psychologist) and in management (Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal). She is also the author of The Work Preference Inventory and KEYS to Creativity and Innovation. Amabile has used insights from her research in working with various groups in business, government, and education, including Procter & Gamble, Novartis International AG, Motorola, IDEO, and the Creative Education Foundation. She has presented her theories, research results, and practical implications in dozens of forums, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Young Presidents’ Organization annual university, and the Front End of Innovation annual conference.
At Harvard Business School, Amabile has taught MBA and executive courses on managing for creativity, leadership, and ethics. Previously, at Brandeis University, she taught social psychology, organizational psychology, the psychology of creativity, and statistics. She served as the host-instructor of the 26-part series, Against All Odds: Inside Statistics, originally broadcast on PBS.http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=tamabile
Other works
Dr. Amabile is the author of The Progress Principle, Creativity in Context, and Growing Up Creative, as well as over 150 scholarly papers, chapters, case studies, and presentations. She serves on the editorial boards of Creativity Research Journal, Creativity and Innovation Management, and Journal of Creative Behavior. Her papers include: Creativity (Annual Review of Psychology), Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity (Academy of Management Journal); Changes in the Work Environment for Creativity during Downsizing (Academy of Management Journal); Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support (Leadership Quarterly); and Affect and Creativity at Work (Administrative Science Quarterly). She has also published several articles in Harvard Business Review.http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=tamabileExternal links
- HBS's Teresa Amabile 'tracks creativity in the wild', article by Beth Potier, Harvard Gazette, February 10, 2005
- Teresa Amabile Harvard Business School Biography http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=tamabile
- The Progress Principle http://progressprinciple.com/
- The Power of Small Wins (Harvard Business Review)http://hbr.org/2011/05/the-power-of-small-wins/ar/1
- Unleash Your Inner Genius (Sydney Morning Herald, March 7, 2011)http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/unleash-your-inner-genius-20110307-1bkva.html
- Bribing the Kids (The Boston Globe) http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/05/08/bribing_the_kids/?s_campaign=8315
- Myths of Creativity in Business (Psych Central) http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2011/05/myths-of-creativity-in-business/