Max H. Bazerman

Max Hal Bazerman (born August 14, 1955 ) is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School .

Life

From 1973 to 1976 Bazerman studied organizational psychology and accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania until he received his bachelor's degree . He moved to the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University , which he graduated in 1979 with the award of his doctorate (Ph.D.).

Then Bazerman remained two years as an instructor at Carnegie Mellon and in 1979 moved to the University of Texas as an assistant professor . In 1981 he moved to Boston University , where he worked in the Department of Organizational Behavior . From 1983 to 85, Bazerman worked at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1985 he took his first of several professorships at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University at. In 1986 he accepted a visiting professorship at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok for one year . In 2000, Bazerman moved to Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching business administration ever since .

Honors

From 2002 to 2008, Bazerman was consistently named as one of the top 40 writers, speakers, and coaches for management. He was named Teacher of the Year in the Kellogg School's Executive Masters Program. He was honored with the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 2000 Bazerman was awarded an honorary Masters by Harvard University, and in 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the London Business School .

Researches

Bazerman examines decisions in negotiation situations in organizations, countries or societies. He was one of the first to link behavioral decision theory with the management context and was able to derive specifications from this that can be used to control the behavior of agents in principal-agent contexts . Key points of his work deal with fraud in accounting, for example Enron . The aim of the research was, among other things, to monitor and prevent such fraud, for example through measures that made auditors more independent of the company being audited. On the other hand, Bazerman also examined the ethics of actors and the causes from which they made unethical decisions. In later work, Bazerman also examined the ability of observers to "overlook" unethical behavior. This research resulted in his work The Art of Noticing, where he examines the psychology of recognizing unethical behavior.

Bibliography (selection)

• "The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See", Simon and Schuster, 2014, ISBN 978-1476700298
• Max H. Bazerman & Ann E. Tenbrunsel: "Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It", Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0691156224
• Deepak Malhotra & Max Bazerman .: "Negotiation genius how to overcome obstacles and achieve brilliant results at the bargaining table and beyond", NY Batam Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0553384116
• Max H. Bazerman & Don A. Moore: "Judgment in managerial decision making", John Wiley, 8th edition 2016, ISBN 978-1118978269

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Civil Action No. 99-CV-02496 (GK); UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Plaintiff) vs. PHILIP MORRIS INC., Et al. (Defendant) ; Written Direct Examination of Max H. Bazerman, Ph.D .; Submitted by the United States Persuant to Orders # 471 and # 924.
2. ^ Profile of Max H. Bazerman on the Harvard Business School website; Retrieved June 20, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Curriculum vitae of Max H. Bazerman on the Harvard Business School website; accessed on June 21, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Max Bazerman on All American Speakers (www.allamericanspeakers.com); accessed on June 21, 2017.