Max H. Bazerman

Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is noted for his pioneering writing and research in the areas of decision-making, ethics, and negotiation.^[1] He is also an author of numerous books and founding partner of Think! Inc.^[2]

Notable Work

Bazerman works in the area of business psychology. He and his colleagues have worked on the psychology of accounting fraud, such as how to prevent fraud that occurred at companies such as Enron.^[3] He has also done research on ethics, and why people will do unethical things.^[4] His work in these fields has made him notable to both academic and media publications, from being quoted as an expert numerous times in the New York Times^[5][6][7] to publications in major trade journals and at educational institutions.^[8]

Biography

In addition to being the Straus Professor at the Harvard Business School, Max is formally affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, the Psychology Department, and the Program on Negotiation.

Max's research focuses on decision making, negotiation, and ethics. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of nineteen books (including Blind Spots [with Ann Tenbrunsel], Princeton University Press, 2011) and over 200 research articles and chapters. He is a member of the editorial boards of the American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Management and Governance, Mind and Society, Negotiations and Conflict Management Research, Psychological and Personality Science, and The Journal of Behavioral Finance. Also, he is a member of the international advisory board of the Negotiation Journal.

From 2002-2008, Max was consistently named one of the top 40 authors, speakers, and teachers of management by Executive Excellence. He was 'Teacher of the Year' by the Executive Masters Program of the Kellogg School. In 2003, Max received the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 2006, Max received an honorary doctorate from the University of London (London Business School), the Kulp-Wright Book Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association for Predictable Surprises (with Michael Watkins), and the Life Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program. In 2008, Max was named as Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics, was named one of Daily Kos' Heroes from the Bush Era for going public about how the Bush Administration corrupted the RICO Tobacco trial, (with Deepak Malhotra) received the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) Outstanding Book Award for Negotiation Genius, and received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management.

In 2009, Max won both the Wyss Award for doctoral student mentoring and the Williams Award for teaching excellence at the Harvard Business School. His former doctoral students have accepted positions at leading business schools throughout the United States, including the Kellogg School at Northwestern, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Fuqua School at Duke, the Johnson School at Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Columbia, and the Harvard Business School.

His professional activities include projects with Abbott, Aetna, Alcar, Alcoa, Allstate, Ameritech, Amgen, Apax Partners, Asian Development Bank, AstraZeneca, AT&T, Aventis, BASF, Bayer, Becton Dickenson, Biogen, Boston Scientific, BP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Business Week, Celtic Insurance, Chevron, Chicago Tribune, City of Chicago, Deloitte and Touche, Dial, Ernst and Young, First Chicago, Gemini Consulting, General Motors, Harris Bank, Home Depot, Hyatt Hotels, IBM, John Hancock, Johnson & Johnson, Kohler, KPMG, Lucent, The May Company, McKinsey, Medtronics, Merrill Lynch, Monitor, Motorola, National Association of Broadcasters, Nordstjernen, Pfizer, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, R. P. Scherer, Sara Lee, Siemens, Sprint, Sulzermedica, Synergen, The Nature Conservancy, Unicredito, Union Bank of Switzerland, Wilson Sporting Goods, Xerox, Young Presidents Organization, World Bank and Zurich Insurance.

Max's consulting, teaching, and lecturing includes work in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Peru, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, and the UK.

Bibliography

• 2011 - Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
• 2008 - Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them (Center for Public Leadership) (Paperback)
• 2007 - Negotiation Genius
• 2005 - Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (Hardcover)
• 2004 - Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them (Leadership for the Common Good) (Hardcover)
• 2002 - "You Can't Enlarge the Pie": Six Barriers to Effective Government (Paperback)
• 2001 - Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (5th Edition) (Paperback)
• 1999 - Smart Money Decisions: Why You Do What You Do With Money (and how to change for the better) (Hardcover)
• 1997 - Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (Paperback)
• 1997 - Environment, Ethics, and Behavior (Paperback)
• 1992 - Negotiating Rationally (Hardcover)
• 1990 - Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (Wiley Series in Management) (Hardcover)
• Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (Wiley Series in Management) (Paperback)
• Cognition and Rationality in Negotiation (Hardcover)

References

1. ^ http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=mbazerman
2. ^ http://www.e-thinkinc.com/index.php/about/team/
3. ^ http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20021211moorep2.asp
4. ^ Gallup Management Journal http://gmj.gallup.com/content/107527/Evaluating-Your-Business-Ethics.aspx
5. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E1D7143EF933A1575BC0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3
6. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE0DE163FF93BA25754C0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
7. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E5DF163FF930A15750C0A9639C8B63
8. ^ http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/news/docs/HB.pdf

External links

• http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbazerman/

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