Program on Alternative Dispute Resolution

2011-12 Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution

April 4, 2012 | Noon | Saxbe Auditorium

The 2012 Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution will be by Deborah M. Kolb.

Deborah M. Kolb is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership at the Simmons School of Management. From 1991 through 1994, she was executive director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She is currently a senior fellow at the program, where she codirects the Negotiations in the Workplace Project.

Dr. Kolb is an authority on gender issues in negotiation and leadership, especially how women can negotiate the conditions for their own success while contributing to the effectiveness of their organization. Dr. Kolb has co-authored several books on this subject. Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas of Bargaining shows women (and men) how they can become more effective in their everyday negotiations by attending to the dual requirements of the shadow negotiation — advocacy for oneself and connection with others. Originally titled, The Shadow Negotiation, Harvard Business Review named it one of the ten best business books of 2000 and it received the best book award from the International Association of Conflict Management in 2001. Dr. Kolb's new book,  Her Place at the Table: A Woman's Guide to Negotiating the Five Challenges of Leadership Success, describes how successful women negotiate for what they need to be effective in leadership roles at all levels of an organization.

Dr. Kolb publishes extensively on these topics and regularly presents her work to national and international audiences. Kolb has recently done work with: Campbell Soup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutschebank, Deloitte and Touche, Eli Lilly, EMC, W.L. Gore, IBM, JP Morgan-Chase, Phillips Medical, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Time, Inc., and Verizon. Non-profit organizations have included The Ford Foundation, The Consultative Group in International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Girl Scouts, USA, The Society for Human Resource Management, Financial Executives International, Financial Women's Association, the Mayo Clinic, Network of Executive Women, Women in Technology International, among many others. Dr. Kolb is a principal in Negotiating Women, LLC., a company that provides negotiation training and consultation especially designed for women.

She received her Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where her dissertation won the Zannetos Prize for outstanding doctoral scholarship. She has a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado.

About the Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution

The Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution was established in 1992 as a result of the generosity of the late Stanley Schwartz Jr. (a 1947 Moritz College of Law graduate) and the Schwartz family. Each lecture is published in the interdisciplinary Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, in keeping with Mr. Schwartz’s interest in the promotion of scholarly publication in the area of dispute resolution.

Previous Schwartz Lectures

• 2010-11: "The Timing of Truth, Reconciliation and Justice After War," John Braithwaite, Australian Research Council Federation Fellow
• 2009-10: "Making Deliberative Democracy Practical: Public Consultation and Dispute Resolution," James Fishkin, Stanford University
• 2008-09: "Never Say No: The Law, Economics and Psychology of Counteroffers," Ian Ayres, William K. Townsend Professor, Yale Law School
• 2007-08: "Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution," Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT, Vice-Chair for Instruction at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Founder, Consensus Building Institute
• 2006-07: "Good Lawyers Should be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients," Jean R. Sternlight, Saltman Professor of Law and Director, Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
• 2005-06: "Developing the MRI (Mediation Receptivity Index)," Frank E.A. Sander, Bussey Professor of Law at Harvard College
• 2004-05: "Mercy, Clemency, and Capital Punishment: Two Accounts," Austin Sarat, Professor of Law at Amherst College
• 2004-05: "Psychological Impediments to Mediation Success: A Theoretical Look at Practical Problems," Russell Korobkin, Professor of Law at UCLA
• 2003-04: "Strategic Mediation," Francis McGovern, Professor of Law at Duke University
• 2002-03: "Gender, Human Rights, and Peace Agreements," Christine Chinkin, Professor of Law at the London School of Economics
• 2001-02: Lecture was delivered by I. William Zartman, Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organization and Conflict Resolution, and Director of African Studies and Conflict Management Programs at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.