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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. Two myths about creativity underlie the squeamishness: First, that creativity is morally, ethically good. An idea, behavior, or product is creative if it is both novel and appropriate to some goal. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard."