Robert B. McKersie is Sloan Fellows Professor Emeritus at the Sloan School of Management, MIT.

Contact

Professor McKersie's research interests have been in labor-management relations, with particular focus on bargaining activity. With Richard Walton, he co-authored A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations in 1965. Subsequently he focused his attention on the subject of productivity (authoring a book with Lawrence Hunter entitled, Pay, Productivity and Collective Bargaining) and participated in a multi-year project at the Sloan School that resulted in the award-winning book by Thomas Kochan, Harry Katz and Robert McKersie entitled The Transformation of American Industrial Relations. More recently, he has returned to the subject of the bargaining process and co-authored with Richard Walton and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld a book entitled, Strategic Negotiations and a companion volume entitled, Pathways to Change.