Media Mentions

James Carter, ILR assistant professor of organizational behavior, comments on a research study that he co-authored, saying that people with higher social status are more able to “be their authentic selves” in the workplace.

New research by Alice Lee, assistant professor of organizational behavior, found that a seller’s emotional attachment to an item – big or small – influences the “sales funnel,” the process through which sellers sort through the field of potential buyers to determine the course of negotiation and, ultimately, the sale.

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.

People who are passionate about their work, but then become less engaged in it, may stay at the job due to an exaggerated fear that others will judge them harshly for quitting, but new research has revealed they may be judged less harshly.

“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.