Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Executive Committee Member, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Max Bazerman a leader in the fields of decision making, negotiation, and behavioral ethics. He has consulted, taught, and lectured in 30 countries, and is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 20 books and more than 200 research articles and chapters, including Negotiation Genius (Bantam Books).
His other honors include an honorary doctorate from the University of London, the Aspen Lifetime Achievement Award, being named as one of Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics, and both the Distinguished Educator and the Distinguished Scholar Awards from the Academy of Management. He was additionally named a Daily Kos Hero for going public about how the Bush administration corrupted the RICO tobacco trial.
Education
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
M.S.O.B., Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
M.A., Harvard University (honorary)
D.Sc., University of London (honorary)
Research interests
Conflicts of interest, decision making, ethics, negotiation, organizational behavior
Selected publications
- The Power of Noticing. Simon and Schuster, 2014.
- With Ann Tenbrunsel, Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It. Princeton University Press, 2011
- With Don A. Moore. Judgment in Managerial Decision Making. Wiley, 2013.
- With Deepak Malhotra. Negotiation Genius. Bantam, 2007.
Dear Dr. Bazerman: A recent study of Trump voters found they were willing to give up advantages of government programs from which they themselves benefited in order to take benefits away from people they deemed “undeserving.” You taught us that a trap in negotiation is to damage your own position in an irrational drive to punish the other guy or minimize their benefit. Would it be worth a paper–or perhaps just a blog entry–to examine how Trump supporters fell into this trap?