# Profs. Steven Blader and Claudine Gartenberg's research on data-driven management is featured

1 Faculty News April 14, 2015 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2015/04/14/when-workplace-competitions-backfire/) -- "Managers are giving employees more information about their performance, and some are sharing information about how different workers stack up. But sometimes, a bit of data can be a dangerous thing. That is the finding of a new working paper from researchers at Columbia University and New York University, who studied a friendly competition among truckers at a large North American logistics firm and found that, in certain work environments, revealing performance data can backfire."

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