Media Mentions

Brian Lucas, an associate professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University, teaches his students the value of sticking with something: He calls it the “10 Percent Rule.” Through his research, he has found that people tend to underestimate how creative they can be when they’re working on a task.

“We all like to feel like good, kind, effective people,” Vanessa Bohns, a Cornell University organizational-behavior professor who worked on the study, told me in an email. “When we are looking onto an event from the sidelines, we don’t get to feel any of those things.”

Using Major League Baseball as a case study, Cornell research highlights potential shortcomings in diversity metrics that could obscure inequities in sports and other organizations.

This piece references research by Brian Lucas stating that ideas thieves don’t see themselves as bad people, and justify their actions by mimicking early stage products rather than established ones, adding their own flair and thereby reasoning that their idea is one of inspiration, not imitation.

Even when an agreement meets the legal criteria for consent, individuals may not feel as though they have truly given consent, which can have serious consequences for the employees’ relationship with their organization, according to new research from Vanessa Bohns.

Individuals who steal ideas from creative workers prefer to do so in earlier conceptual stages than creators expect, according to new research by Brian Lucas, associate professor of organizational behavior.

An ILR School research team found that having either the same gender or the same nationality as an opponent leads to greater perceptions of rivalry and subsequent better effort-based performance.

Emily Zitek explains her new research that examined narrative-based and numerical-based performance reviews and whether one format — or a combination of the two — was seen as more fair and motivating by employees.