# Prof. Nathan Pettit on status

1 June 1, 2012 Harvard Business Review ![Harvard Business Review logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032358.jpg?itok=cHztGP4H)>

Excerpt from [Harvard Business Review](http://hbr.org/2012/06/high-status-creates-delusions-of-approval/ar/1) -- "'The social world for those possessing high status is an enviable place,' say the researchers, [Nathan C. Pettit](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nathan-pettit), of New York University, and Niro Sivanathan, of London Business School."

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