James K. Sebenius
Vice-Chair for Practice and Focused Research for the Negotiation Roundtable
Program on Negotiation Executive Committee
Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Professor Sebenius specializes in analyzing and advising on complex negotiations. At PON, he is a co-chair of the Great Negotiator Award Committee. In 1982, he co-founded and still directs the Negotiation Roundtable, an ongoing forum in which hundreds of negotiations have been examined to extract their most valuable lessons. Sebenius is a founder and principal of Lax Sebenius: The Negotiation Group LLC, a firm that provides negotiation advisory services to corporations and governments worldwide. In 1993, he took the lead in the Business School's decision to make negotiation a required course in the MBA Program and to create a Negotiation Unit (department) which he headed for several years. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard in business economics, a master’s degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford's Engineering School, and an undergraduate degree (summa cum laude) from Vanderbilt in mathematics and English.

Email:jsebenius@hbs.edu

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