"Some people will find that more interesting than others, and those are the people that you want, " says Peter Cappelli, director of the Center for Human Resources at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

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Business owners may be able to make laying the law down easier by offering employees both positive and negative feedback on a regular basis, says Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the Wharton School in Philadelphia.

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Also, more Ivy League graduates go into finance roles than graduates of other schools, and employers pay a premium for them, says Peter Cappelli, a professor of management and director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Professor PETER CAPPELLI (Professor of Business Management, University of Pennsylvania): If you really want to be effective as an organization, you shouldn't spend an awful lot of time trying to ferret out what employees are doing that's not productive, and instead, you should just be trying to measure and monitor how much, in fact, they're actually getting done.

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