Business management
Research: When Help Isn't Helpful
Asking for and receiving help at work can boost employees' creativity, help them learn new skills, and strengthen their interpersonal ties. Yet a years-long...
Jun 10, 2025
197 results for "Teresa M. Amabile"
- Managing yourself
Retire Without Regrets
This article explores the significant transition of retirement and offers insights into creating a satisfying postcareer life. It highlights the contrasting...
- Leadership and managing people
Why People Resist Retirement
Research suggests making the decision to retire means grappling with three psychological issues. First, identity issues can loom large for any deeply...
Jul 22, 2024
- Innovation
How to Kill Creativity
Based on 22 years of breakthrough research, this article by Teresa Amabile, MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business...
- Business management
Rethinking Rewards
It is difficult to overstate the extent to which most managers and the people who advise them believe in the redemptive power of rewards, argues Alfie...
- Business and society
The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010
HBR's annual ideas collection, compiled in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, offers 10 fresh solutions with the potential for a huge positive...
- Business management
The Power of Small Wins
Want to truly engage your workers? Help them see their own progress.
- Leadership and managing people
Creativity and the Role of the Leader
Reprint: R0810G In today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas has become an urgent managerial priority. Suddenly, the...
Book
HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers, Updated and Expanded (featuring "Becoming the Boss" by Linda A. Hill)
Develop the skills and mindset to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else for new managers, read this book. We've chosen...
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Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling and intrinsically motivating. But what if you're stuck in a job and your heart isn't...
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What's Stifling the Creativity at CoolBurst? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
This fictitious case study explores the challenges facing CoolBurst, a Miami-based fruit-juice company. For over a decade, CoolBurst had ruled the market...
- Business management
Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance
Reprint: R0705D Anyone in management knows that employees have their good days and their bad days-and that, for the most part, the reasons for their ups...
Book
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Creativity (with bonus article "How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity" By Ed Catmull)
Does your organization support creativity--or squash it? If you read nothing else on cultivating creativity at work, read these 10 articles. We've combed...
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