Being a selfish jerk doesn’t get you ahead, research finds | Haas News | Berkeley Haas

The evidence is in: Nice guys and gals don’t finish last, and being a selfish jerk doesn’t get you ahead. That’s the clear conclusion from research that tracked disagreeable people—those with selfish, combative, manipulative personalities—from college or graduate school to where they landed in their careers about 14 years later. “I was surprised by the …