Negotiation and Leadership Conference 2009

Negotiation and Leadership Conference Keynotes

Dr. Howard Raiffa

Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics
Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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Dr. Howard Raiffa is the Frank P. Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor Raiffa has worked in operations research, game theory, statistical decision theory, decision analysis, risk analysis, behavioral decision theory, and in conflict resolution and mediation and has received lifetime achievement awards from societies representing each of these fields. Raiffa is a pioneer in the field of decision analysis. A mathematician by training, Raiffa is an originator of the now famous

"decision tree," and has done extensive work on developing techniques to help decision-makers think more systematically about complex choices involving uncertainties and tradeoffs. From 1952 to 1957 he was an

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Assistant Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University and was Chair of the Behavioral Models Project. In 1957 he accepted an Associate Professorship jointly with the Business School and the Statistics Department at Harvard. He was promoted to full professor in 1960. In 1964 he accepted the Frank P Ramsey Chair joint between the B-School and the Department of Economics. He helped design the core courses for the newly created Kennedy School of Government featuring a strong professional masters program and developed and taught the required course in decision analysis for that program. For these efforts he was recognized as one of the founders of the Kennedy School. As a scientific adviser to McGeorge Bundy, White House assistant for national security under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences, Raiffa helped to negotiate the creation of an East-West think tank (The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) with the aim of reducing Cold War tensions. The Institute was founded in 1972, located outside of Vienna, Austria, and supported by 16 Academies of Sciences bridging East (the Soviet Union and its affiliated countries), and West (the U.S. and affiliated countries). From 1972 to 1975 he was the first Director of the Institute. One of six projects was in Energy Alternatives in an Environmentally Stable World and it was a pioneer in identifying Global Warming, through the accumulation of CO2 in the upper atmosphere, as the problem of primary concern. In 1975 Raiffa returned to Harvard and taught much of his newly honed skills as a negotiator. He pioneered in a pedagogy for teaching negotiations which became a required course in the masters programs at the B-School and Kennedy School. In the early 1980s he joined Roger Fisher in establishing the inter-university Program on Negotiation (PON) located at Harvard Law School. He has also held professorial positions in the Department of Economics and in the Department of Statistics and has written a dozen books about Decision Sciences (about half have won book awards) and has supervised about 90 dissertations. He holds honorary degrees from Carnegie, Northwestern, Michigan, Ben Gurion, and Harvard; he also received several awards from different societies for lifetime achievements; and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. Raiffa received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Michigan (with thesis on Game Theory: Arbitration of Two-Person, Non-Zero Sum Games).

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Dr. Lawrence Susskind

Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served on the faculty for 35 years and currently directs the Graduate Program in Environmental Policy and Planning. He is also Vice-Chair for Instruction at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, which he helped found in 1982, and where he heads the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and teaches advanced negotiation courses. In 1993, Professor Susskind created the Consensus Building Institute. Professor Susskind’s most recent book,

Breaking Robert’s Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus and Get Results (Oxford University Press, 2006), synthesizes what he has learned about consensus building techniques and strategies that work most effectively in the public arena. He is author of 15 other books including Negotiating Environmental Agreements (Island Press, 1999), Dealing With An Angry Public (Free Press, 1994), and the award-winning Consensus Building Handbook (Sage, 1999). Professor Susskind has mediated more than 50 disputes, including land use conflicts, facility siting controversies, public policy disagreements, and confrontations over water. He has served as a court-appointed special master and helped facilitate negotiations on arrangements of global environmental treaties. He offers a range of executive training programs each year and has served as guest lecturer at more than two-dozen universities around the world. He graduated from Columbia University in 1968 with a B.A. in English Literature and Sociology. He received his Masters of City Planning from MIT in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from MIT in 1973. You can visit Dr. Susskind's blog by clicking here for more information.

Benjamin Heineman, Jr.

Distinguished Senior Fellow
Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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Benjamin Heineman, Jr. was GE's Senior Vice President-General Counsel for GE from 1987-2003, and then Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs from 2004 until his retirement at the end of 2005. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on the Legal Profession, Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on Corporate Governance and Senior Counsel to the law firm of Wilmer Hale. A Rhodes Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and

law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Mr. Heineman was assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and practiced constitutional law prior to his service at GE. His new book, High Performance with High Integrity, was published in June, 2008 by the Harvard Business Press. He writes and lectures frequently on business, law and international affairs. He is also the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency. In 2007, he served on the Independent Review Panel on the World Bank Group's Department of Institutional Integrity (the Volcker Panel). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Science's Committee on Science, Technology and Law and recipient of the American Lawyer's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award of Board Member Magazine and was named one of the 100 most influential individuals on business ethics in 2008 by Ethisphere Magazine. He serves on the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Transparency International-USA. He recently delivered the Oliver Smithies Lectures at Oxford University on the global anti-corruption agenda. Mr. Heineman has AB from Harvard College, Graduate Degree in Political Science from Oxford University, and JD from Yale Law School.

Dr. Howard Raiffa
HBS and HKS Joint Chair Professor (Emeritus). Launched PON with Roger Fisher.

Dr. Lawrence Susskind
Co-Founder and Vice-Chair at PON
Director of MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program

Ben Heineman, Jr.
GE's Former General Counsel
Senior Fellow at HLS and HKS

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