GDN Section of INFORMS

Group Decision and Negotiation

We expect 5-6 prominent scientists and business leaders to deliver keynote talks. Todate four renowned researchers and scholars agreed to present their research and share their expertise.

Steven J. Brams

Professor, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University

Steven J. Brams is a Professor of Politics at New York University and the author, co-author, or co-editor of 15 books and over 200 articles.  His most recent books include Theory of Moves (Cambridge, 1994) and, co-authored with Alan D. Taylor, Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution (Cambridge, 1996) and The Win-Win Solution: Guaranteeing Fair Shares to Everybody (Norton, 1999); forthcoming is a book entitled Mathematics and Democracy.  He has applied game theory and social choice theory to voting and elections, bargaining and fairness, international relations, and the Bible and theology.  Dr. Brams is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Public Choice Society (president, 2004-2006), a Guggenheim Fellow, past president of the Peace Science Society (International), and was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Ralph L. Keeney

Research Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Dr. Keeney's interests are the areas of decision-making and risk analysis, with a focus on problems involving multiple objectives. Prior to joining the Duke faculty, he was a faculty member in Management and in Engineering at MIT and at the University of Southern California, a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, and the founder of the decision and risk analysis group of a large geotechnical and environmental consulting firm. He is the author of many books and articles and has served on the editorial boards of several journals. He is co-author of Decisions with Multiple Objectives with Howard Raiffa, which won the ORSA Lanchester Prize, a co-author of Acceptable Risk , and the author of Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decisionmaking, which received the Decision Analysis Society Best Publication Award. His latest book Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions with John S. Hammond and Howard Raiffa also received the Decision Analysis Society Best Publication Award. Dr. Keeney was awarded the Ramsey Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Decision Analysis by the Decision Analysis Society and is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Bertrand Munier

Professor and Director, Group on Risk, Information and Decision research (GRID); Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Theory and Decision

Dr. Munier's research focuses on risk management, rationality. He has been doing research in risk management and strategic decision-making aiding many large business organizations in France, including Electricité de France, Air France, CCF Capital Management, SNCF and COGEMA. He is the author or co-author of more than one hundred refereed papers; he wrote, edited and co-authored eleven book and edited two conference proceeding volumes. In 1989 Bertand Munier established GRID which is associated the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and which become one of the centers of excellence in French research, at the interface of management science and economics, using methodologies at the crossroads of economics, engineering and organization theory. He has been elected by the French scientific community three times to be a member of the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique of the French CNRS. He also was made a member of the Comité National des Universités for one term and served 5 years as a member of that committee.

Michael Wheeler

MBA Class of 1952 Professor, Harvard Business School; Co-Director of the Dispute Resolution Program; Editor of the Negotiation Journal

Dr. Wheeler's research focuses on negotiation as a dynamic process, one in which the capacity to learn and adapt is essential. Even in seemingly simple cases, people's interests, options, and relationships can change significantly. As a result, effective strategy must take into account complex interactions among the parties themselves and changing external environments. Theory-building in this domain draws on a wide range of disciplines and fields from complexity science and military strategy, to pyschoanalysis and jazz. It focuses on critical moments in negotiation — "tipping points" — and on how micro-transactions influence the larger process.He teaches a second year elective, Negotiating Complex Deals and Disputes, and a variety of executive courses. Michael Wheeler's current research also focuses on negotiation ethics, dispute resolution, and organizational design. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including most recently, What’s Fair? Ethics for Negotiators (with Carrie Menkel-Meadow), Business Fundamentals in Negotiation, and On Teaching Negotiation. His text Environmental Dispute Resolution (with Lawrence Bacow) won the CPR-ADR’s annual award as the best book on negotiation. He has written numerous articles in both scholarly journals (among them, the Yale Journal of Regulation, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and The Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies) and the public press, including The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times.

 

 

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