Douglas Stone

Lecturer on Law

Douglas Stone is a Partner at Triad Consulting Group in Cambridge. He is an affiliate of the Harvard Negotiation Project, where for ten years he was Associate Director. Along with Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen, he developed PIL's Advanced Negotiation Workshop and has taught it since 1991. As Lecturer on Law, he taught Harvard Law School's Negotiation Workshop to law and other graduate students. Mr. Stone has been engaged in mediation work in South Africa, Cyprus, and the U.S., and has taught negotiation and mediation to lawyers, executives, teachers, psychologists, journalists and diplomats around the world. He is co-author, along with Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen, of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Viking/Penguin). His articles on negotiation have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor and The Boston Globe. He is a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School and has worked as an attorney in Boston and New York.