# Prof. Gavin Kilduff's research on rivalry

Research in the News

— August 31, 2012

As seen in: USA Today

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Excerpt from [USA Today](http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/ccp/do-college-rivalries-go-too-far) -- "[Gavin Kilduff](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/gavin-kilduff), professor of management at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, has researched the causes and consequences of rivalry and competition by focusing on the NCAA and other sports teams. He has found three factors that influence the formation of rivalries: similarity, repeated competition and evenly-matched past competition."

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