Corporate Creativity

Biography: Alan G. Robinson, professor of management at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, graduated from Cambridge University in mathematics and received his Ph.D. in operations research from the Johns Hopkins University. His research on corporate creativity has taken him to several hundred companies around the world, including the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, China, India, Brazil, Greece, Jamaica, and Russia.

Robinson has been a consultant to more than fifty companies (large and small) in eight countries on how to improve their creative performance and is one of relatively few professors to have been invited to serve on the Board of Examiners of the United States Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He is a frequent public speaker on the subject of creativity in companies. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife and two girls.

Sam Stern is professor of education at Oregon State University, where his research and writing are concerned with creativity and its connection with business and education. He has taught in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, the MBA Program at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration in Greece, and in the Department of Systems Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology.

While in Japan from 1990 through 1992, Stern served as the Japan Management Association (JMA) Professor of Creativity Development and led a research team in a multiyear study of creativity in some two hundred companies. He is one of the few non-Japanese to have held an endowed professorship in Japan. Stern has served as an advisor on creativity to organizations in the United States, Japan, and other countries, including Hewlett-Packard, NASA, NEC, Polaroid, and Seiko-Epson. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with his wife and two boys.

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