# Prof. Gavin Kilduff on corporate rivalry

1 Faculty News April 4, 2014 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ead59936-ba61-11e3-8b15-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz2yCqw2Icn) -- "[Prof Kilduff](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/gavin-kilduff) argues that we have a fundamental need to compare ourselves with others who we see as similar. 'It may lead to a preoccupation that goes beyond what is strictly rational,' he says. 'It can promote scandalous and unethical behaviour, the kind of thing that blows up.'”
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