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

1 Faculty News April 20, 2015 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](http://qz.com/384388/the-big-risk-of-letting-employees-know-where-they-rank-versus-their-peers/) -- "In a new study of a trucking company in the midst of adopting Toyota’s famous lean principles (which emphasize respect, humility, and collective outcomes over individual ones) researchers from NYU and Columbia found that putting up a leaderboard comparing individual performance had vastly different effects, depending on whether or not an individual site had undergone the new cultural training."

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