Teresa Amabile

Institution Harvard University Current Position Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration Highest Degree Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University, 1977 Research Interests Applied Social Psychology Emotion Motivation/Goal Setting Organizational Behavior   Teresa Amabile Harvard Business School Rock Center Soldiers Field Boston, Massachusetts 02163 U.S.A. Home Page Phone: (617) 495-6871 Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, and Faculty Chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. Dr. Amabile's research originally focused on individual creativity and has since expanded to encompass team creativity and organizational innovation. This 30-year program of research on how the work environment can influence creativity and motivation has yielded a theory of creativity and innovation; methods for assessing creativity, motivation, and the work environment; and a set of prescriptions for maintaining and stimulating innovation. Dr. Amabile has presented her theory, her research results, and her methods for stimulating innovation to various groups in business, government, and education, including Lucent Technologies, Procter & Gamble Company, and Novartis International AG. In addition to participating in various executive programs, her main teaching assignment at Harvard Business School is an MBA course, Managing for Creativity. Dr. Amabile was also the host/instructor of "Against All Odds: Inside Statistics," a 26-part instructional series originally produced for broadcast on PBS, and in 1998 she was awarded the E. Paul Torrance Award by the Creativity Division of the National Association for Gifted Children in 1998. Dr. Amabile is the author of "Creativity in Context" and "Growing Up Creative," as well as more than 100 scholarly papers, chapters, and presentations. She serves on the editorial boards of Creativity Research Journal, Creativity and Innovation Management, and the Journal of Creative Behavior. Books: Amabile, T. M. (1996). Creativity in context. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press. Amabile, T. M. (1989). Growing up creative: Nurturing a lifetime of creativity. New York: Crown Publishing Group. Journal Articles: Amabile, T., Constance N. H., & Steven J. K. (2002). Creativity under the gun. Harvard Business Review, 80(8), 52-61. Amabile, T. M. (2001). Beyond talent: John Irving and the passionate craft of creativity. American Psychologist, 56(4), 333-336. Amabile, T. M. (1998). How to kill creativity. Harvard Business Review, 76(5), 76-87. Amabile, T. M. (1990). Cataloguing creativity. Contemporary Psychology, 35, 451. Amabile, T.M., Barsade, S.G., Mueller, J.S., & Staw, B.M. (2005). Affect and creativity at work. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50(3), 367-403. Amabile, T. M., & Conti, R. (1999). Changes in the work environment for creativity during downsizing. Academy of Management Journal, 42, 630-640. Amabile, T. M., Hill, K. G., Hennessey, B. A., & Tighe, E. M. (1994). The work preference inventory: Assessing intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 950-967. Amabile, T.M. & Kramer, S.J. (2007). Inner work life: The hidden subtext of business performance. Harvard Business Review, 85(5), 72-83. Amabile, T. M., Patterson, C., Mueller, J., Wojcik, T., Odomirok, P., Marsh, M., & Kramer, S. (2001). Academic-practitioner collaboration in management research: A case of cross-profession collaboration. Academy of Management Journal, 44(2), 418-431. Amabile, T.M., Schatzel, E.A., Moneta, G.B., & Kramer, S.J. (2004). Leader behaviors and the work environment for creativity: Perceived leader support. The Leadership Quarterly, 15(1), 5-32. Conti, R., Amabile, T. M., & Pollack, S. (1995). Enhancing intrinsic motivation, learning, and creativity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 1107-1116. Other Publications: Amabile, T.M. & Mueller, J.S. (2008). Studying creativity, its processes, and its antecedents: An exploration of the componential theory of creativity. In J. Zhou & C.E. Shalley (Eds.) Handbook of Organizational Creativity. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Fisher, C. & Amabile, T.M. (2009). Creativity, improvisation, and organizations. In T. Rickards, M.A. Runco, & S. Moger (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Creativity. Oxford, UK: Routledge.

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