Arts and Humanities

It wasn't until I stood in the fresh mud of my own basement—the eerie presence of floodwater lingering in the damp, close air, in my hair—that I began to think deeply about the nature of flooding: its bold insistence, its fickle shifts, its disruptions and rearrangements. How it ...

Sawdust leaking from worn seams, this is how it felt, dying, she said when I asked her. How the sky opens itself through the humming wire seams, ... I am desperate to stay clear of this hay, its burnt haze lulling me hollow. Yet I am part of the damp air, water that takes her despite ...

These 8 lyric and narrative poems—written in a range of forms—focus on the ecosystem of what remains of the North American tallgrass prairie, specifically as it is currently preserved in the ever-vanishing Loess Hills of western Iowa. They also explore the work of visual artists (in ...

PurposeDescribes how The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College features creativity as one of the early and essential components of its innovative two‐year MBA program.Design/methodology/approachArticle reports on the indicators that the program is a success.FindingsFor corporations seeking creativity in new hires, MBA graduates who have completed the “Creativity stream” offer increased confidence in their ability to express themselves creatively; willingness to accept ambiguity and the uncertainty of process as part of discovery; openness to alternatives ways of seeing a problem, solution, or scenario; and renewed trust in themselves and their potential as creative thinkers.Research limitations/implicationsEmployer survey results suggest that there is a link between Babson MBAs’ success at producing more and better creative solutions on the job and their exposure to creative process in the “Creativity stream”.Practical implicationsThere is only limited evidence tha...