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Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud? Researchers Francesca Gino and Lisa Shu discuss whether governments and companies can bolster honesty simply by moving the honesty pledge and signature line to the top of the form, before people encounter the opportunity to cheat.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 28, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
The Importance of 'Don't' in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior There are two ways a company can encourage ethical conduct among its employees: either the promotion of good actions and outcomes or the prevention of bad ones. |
Fast Company
December 2004
Bill Breen |
The 6 Myths Of Creativity A new study will change how you generate ideas and decide who's really creative in your company. |
Job Journal
November 2, 2008
Penelope Trunk |
Brazen Careerist: Bad Situations Breed Creativity When the going gets tough, the tough get creative. |
Fast Company
May 2014 |
Encourage Dishonesty Acting dishonestly leaves people feeling "less constrained by rules," and therefore better able to think outside the box. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 31, 2004
Martha Lagace |
How Team Leaders Show Support---or Not What does a team leader do so that employees know they are being supported? A Q&A with Harvard professor and creativity expert Teresa Amabile about new research. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2009
Sander A. Flaum |
Time to Create Too many people think of creativity as a mystic flash of inspiration. It's also hard work that needs to be built into every leader's professional life. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 5, 2015
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How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat There's a key link between our hormone levels and unethical behavior, according to new research by Francesca Gino, and colleagues. The good news: businesses can do something about it. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 2, 2012 |
Most Popular Articles of 2011 Our most-read articles of 2011 focused on how leaders can become better -- and what can lead to their downfalls. |
Fast Company
Evie Nagy |
How Maine Is Working Together To Become A Hub For Creative Industry The goal of the nonprofit Maine Center for Creativity is to grow and maintain a culture of innovation in Maine, where the talent exists but the relative isolation limits the exposure to new ideas and risk taking that creative hubs need. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 22, 2011
Michael Blanding |
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity As global competition intensifies, it's more important than ever that companies figure out how to innovate if they are going to maintain their edge, or maintain their existence at all. |
Entrepreneur
December 2003
Juanita Weaver |
Fuel the Fire Seven tips to keep your company's creativity sizzling |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 17, 2012
Carmen Nobel |
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity New studies show that workers are more productive on rainy days than on sunny ones. Does your office take advantage? |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 5, 2011
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It's Alive!: Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research Researchers use field and lab experiments to better understand the logic of real-world decisions, which sometimes fly in the face of established economic theory. |
Entrepreneur
July 2007
Chris Penttila |
Temper, Temper! Managers need to be able to navigate employees' daily dispositions. Here are a few tips for guiding employee moods to encourage creativity. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 14, 2008
Julia Hanna |
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity Business leaders must manage and support creativity just as they would any other asset. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 9, 2013
Michael Blanding |
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity Managing cultural friction not only creates a more harmonious workplace, says professor Roy Y.J. Chua, but ensures that you reap the creative benefits of multiculturalism at its best. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Nichole L. Torres |
Speed of Thought Think fast to be more innovative in your branding. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2010
David Chapin |
Taking Advantage of the Science Behind Marketing Being strategic and applying data tools effectively will go a long way in helping to produce analytics that drive sales |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 5, 2014
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Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance New research by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work improves job performance in the long run. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 9, 2015
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Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty Francesca Gino and colleagues find that people avoid professional networking -- even though it's good for their careers -- because it makes them feel morally dirty. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 20, 2006
Michael Roberts |
The Power of Ordinary Practices Seemingly mundane things that managers do can have great impact on their workers. |
CFO
November 1, 2007
Alix Stuart |
Virtual Agreement Online group brainstorming brings together the best of individual creative thinking and the power of numbers. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Audia & Goncalo |
Does Success Spoil Inventors? The experience of success may stifle creativity by leading people to focus narrowly on existing solutions rather than by exploring new ones. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 18, 2013
Michael Blanding |
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams Power interrupts, and absolute power interrupts absolutely. Francesca Gino and colleagues discover that a high-powered boss can lead a team into poor performance. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 2, 2009
Sean Silverthorne |
When Goal Setting Goes Bad Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. |
AskMen.com
May 30, 2015
Christopher Hunt |
C2 Montreal: Innovative Brainstorming Techniques Studies have shown that people are having fun or feel less tense, they are able to make more creative decisions. |
Fast Company
Belle Beth Cooper |
The 6 Best Tools For Creative Work, According To Science There are some tools that can improve our chances of working creatively. According to research, these six tools can help inspire your next big idea. |
AskMen.com
November 28, 2012
Eric Barker |
What Is Conscientiousness Research is pointing to conscientiousness as the one-trait-to-rule-them-all in terms of future success, both career-wise and personal. |
Entrepreneur
December 2003
Chris Penttila |
An Art in Itself Managing your creative employees can be a challenge, but doing it well is crucial to your business. |
Job Journal
May 13, 2007
Penelope Trunk |
Brazen Careerist: Dawn of 'the Conceptual Age' As thousands of US companies ship jobs to other countries, we are entering a new age in economic history, and it will elevate those who are nimble and creative. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 13, 2015
Carmen Nobel |
`Humblebragging' is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview While humblebragging runs rampant on Twitter, it's a lousy self-promotion tactic that usually backfires according to recent research. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 8, 2004
Sean Silverthorne |
The Hidden Cost of Buying Information We all need good information to make decisions--that is why consulting is an industry that never goes out of style. But paying for information can carry a hidden cost: We may give it more weight in our decision making than it deserves. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 22, 2011
Sean Silverthorne |
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century Harvard faculty look backward and forward at the most important business trends of the young twenty-first century. |
AskMen.com
Victor Krull |
Alcohol And The Brain A study, "Uncorking the muse: Alcohol intoxication facilitates creative problem solving*," found that a moderate level of vodka-induced intoxication gave test subjects a noticeable advantage when solving creative problems. |
Entrepreneur
July 2003
Nichole L. Torres |
Best of Both Worlds Yes, it is possible to balance passionate creativity and no-nonsense business. |
Investment Advisor
April 2010
Olivia Mellan |
Cover Story: The Upside of Irrationality Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, has wondered for years why people often don't act in their own best interest. As advisors, how can you use this knowledge? |
Fast Company
February 2014
Robert Safian |
Looking Beyond Steve Jobs After months of research, we have identified a constellation of modern Renaissance men and women in business across the economy and around the globe. We call these honorees the Most Creative People in Business 1000 |
Fast Company
October 2005
Danielle Sacks |
Commercial Success Dany Lennon places the hottest leaders in advertising. Here, she talks about what she looks for in candidates for creative jobs - and why you should be watching the same movies as your 8-year-old. |
Job Journal
May 21, 2006
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Ethics Ought to Start at the Top If chief executive officers are only as effective as the people they surround themselves with, then doesn't it also follow that they are only as ethical as the people around them? |
Chemistry World
July 22, 2014
Mark Peplow |
The creative stimulus Perhaps we cannot will creativity, but we can nourish it -- through broad learning, by giving our minds the freedom to roam and by remaining alert to the endless depths of unsolved mysteries in the universe. |
Fast Company
Faisal Hoque |
Why Are Some People More Creative Than Others? A great deal of creativity comes from finding the relationship between two unrelated things and defining the value residing in those connections. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Danielle Sacks |
Making Smarter Marketers A new advertising master's program isn't for agency types. It hopes to produce more creative clients. |
Fast Company
December 2004
Bill Breen |
Getting Creative How do you build a creative work environment? Here is Harvard professor Teresa Amabile's four-part plan for leaders, coupled with journal excerpts from her pioneering study of creativity "in the wild." |
CIO
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Meg Mitchell Moore |
Jeffrey Govendo - Interview As president of The Innovative Edge, Jeffrey Govendo teaches people to turn ideas into viable business options... |
Job Journal
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Deborah Brown-Volkman |
Career Pros: Be Your Own Career Coach Get in touch with your true self and start going after what you really want. |
Job Journal
February 24, 2013
Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. |
The Uncomfort Zone: When Creativity Kicks in If you haven't been thinking `outside the box' in your job hunt for a while, you're overlooking one of the most powerful problem-solving tools you have. |
Job Journal
May 2, 2010
Peggy Klaus |
Ethical Behavior in the Workplace Was the economic meltdown caused by illegal activities or immoral practices? Do we apply a different standard of ethics in the workplace than we expect from each other in our private lives? |
Fast Company
Samantha Cole |
How One Of Google's Finest Fosters The Big Ideas Whether he's giving his team near-impossible puzzles to solve in no time or hosting endless brainstorming sessions, for Robert Wong, boxing in a creative mind is his best innovation catalyst. |
Job Journal
March 11, 2012
Peter Weddle |
Breaking Out of Your Job Search Box Most job seekers feel invisible and ignored, like they can't get any employer's attention, no matter how many hundreds of openings they apply for. The hard reality of today's job market is that it takes extraordinary effort and ingenuity to stand out. |
