Max Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where his research and teaching focus on negotiation, behavioral economics, and ethics. His new book, Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness, offers concrete advice on how we can all make the world better by maximizing our pleasure and minimizing our pain.
Max is the author, coauthor, or co-editor of 19 books and over 200 research articles and chapters. Other recent books include The Power of Experiments (with Michael Luca), The Power of Noticing, Negotiation Genius (with Deepak Malhotra), Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (with Don Moore), and Blind Spots (with Ann Tenbrunsel).
An award-winning scholar and mentor, Max has consulted, taught, and lectured with hundreds of organizations all over the world, from corporations to governments to nonprofits. His former doctoral students have accepted positions at leading business schools throughout the United States. Max has received an honorary doctorate from the University of London (London Business School). He was named one of Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics and a Daily Kos Hero for going public about how the Bush Administration corrupted the RICO Tobacco trial.
You can learn more about Max by visiting www.people.hbs.edu/mbazerman
