Max Bazerman

Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. 

Max''s research focuses on decision making, negotiation, and ethics. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of twenty books (including The Power of Noticing, Simon and Schuster, 2014; and 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 2002-2011, Max was consistently named one of the top 40 authors, speakers, and teachers of management by Executive Excellence. He was named "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 ,  received the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) Outstanding Book Award for Negotiation Genius   (with Deepak Malhotra), and received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management. In 2014, Max received the Academy of Management Career Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management.

Max was named the Harvard Kennedy School’s Advisory of the Year in 2014. 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, AIG, 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, and additional companies that start with letters between D and Z.  Max''s consulting, teaching, and lecturing includes work in 30 countries.  Details are available at www.people.hbs.edu/mbazerman.

Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of twenty books (including The Power of Noticing, Simon and Schuster, 2014, and Blind Spots [with Ann Tenbrunsel], Princeton University Press, 2011) and over 200 research articles and chapters. His awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of London (London Business School), and both the Distinguished Educator Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of Management. Max’s external work involves teaching and consulting in 30 countries.

Selected Publications

Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles

• Sezer, Ovul, Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman. "Overcoming the Outcome Bias: Making Intentions Matter." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 137 (November 2016): 13-26.
• Conlon, Donald E., Max H. Bazerman, Deepak Malhotra, and Madan M. Pillutla. "Celebrating the work of J. Keith Murnighan." Negotiation and Conflict Management Research 9.4 (November 2016).
• Bazerman, Max H., and Ovul Sezer. "Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 136.C (2016): 95-105.
• Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman. "How to Make the Other Side Play Fair." Harvard Business Review 94.9 (2016): 16.
• Hildreth, John Angus D., Francesca Gino, and Max Bazerman. "Blind Loyalty? When Group Loyalty Makes Us See Evil or Engage in It." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 132 (January 2016): 16-36.