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, Teresa received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. She studies how everyday life inside organizations can influence people and their performance. Teresa’s research encompasses creativity, productivity, innovation, and inner work life – the confluence of emotions, perceptions, and motivation that people experience as they reac
Teresa has presented her research in many venues, including TEDx Atlanta. Visit the speaking page to watch the TEDx video. In 2011, Teresa was ranked 18 on the Thinkers 50 , the definitive listing of the world’s top business thinkers.
Academic researchers now have free access to data from Teresa Amabile's daily diary study of 200+ professionals working on 26 creative projects in 7 companies in 3 industries. These data cover topics such as motivation, emotion, work environment, creativity, and productivity. Diary data were collected each weekday throughout the life of the projects or discrete project phases - over 4 months on average, and up to 9 months; the response rate was 75%. Most projects involved new product development. Publicati