Sam Stern, coauthor of Corporate Creativity, is a Professor of Education at Oregon State University. He has also taught in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration in Greece, and at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. While in Japan he served for two years as the Japan Management Association Professor of Creativity Development and led a research team in a study of creativity in some two hundred Japanese companies. He also serves as an advisor on creativity to organizations in the U.S. Japan, and other countries.