About the Authors

Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School. Originally educated as a chemist at Canisius College, Amabile received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. Her research investigates how everyday life inside organizations can influence people and their performance. Initially focusing on individual creativity, Amabile’s research has expanded to encompass subjective experience at work (inner work life), individual productivity, team creativity, and organizational innovation.

Amabile was awarded the E. Paul Torrance Award by the Creativity Division of the National Association for Gifted Children in 1998, and The Leadership Quarterly ...

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