About Deborah Kolb, Phd.
- 100 Wise Women
- Advertising.com
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Boston Center for Adult Education – Emerging Leaders Forum
- Campbell Soup
- Case Western Reserve
- CIT
- Columbia Women’s Business Conference
- Consultative Group in International Agricultural Research
- Credit Suisse First Boston, Women’s Network
- Dana Farber Cancer Center
- Danish Association of Lawyers and Economists
- Deloitte Women’s Initiative Program
- Deutsche Bank
- Ernst & Young
- Executive Women in Privacy
- Fashion Institute of Technology
- Financial Women’s Association
- W.T. Gore Women’s Network
- Harvard University – Conference on Gender and Negotiation, JFK School of Government,
- IBM Negotiating for Change, Keynote, Global Women’s Conference
- India Institute of Management
- INSEAD
- Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Center for Executive Women
- Kalovig Center, Arhus, Denmark
- JPMorganChase Global Senior Women’s Conference
- Linkage Women in Leadership Summit
- Massachusetts Conference on Women
- Mastercard
- MIT – Emerging Technologies Conference
- MIT Alumnae Event
- Network of Executive Women
- NYU Medical School
- Phillips Medica
- PricewaterhouseCoopers, Women’s Network
- Simmons Leadership Conference,
- Springboard Boot Camp
- Textron
- Time Warner Reunion Program
- The Women’s Congress
- University of Buenos Aires,
- University of Pennsylvania Medical School Women’s Focus Conference
- University of Wisconsin Women’s Executive Leadership Conference
- Verizon Women’s Network
- Washington Dispute Resolution Conference
- Washington University
- Women of ALPFA (Association of Latina Professionals in Finance and Accounting
- Women’s Business Forum
- Women in Endorcrinology
- Women’s Leadership Summit
- Women, Inc
- Women in Project Management
“I did my Ph.D. dissertation on labor mediation; later it was published as the book, The Mediators. Roger Fisher and William Ury’s book, Getting to Yes, released two years earlier had made people think differently about negotiation. People assumed that just because I was a woman, I was an expert on gender issues.”
The rest is history.
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.
Kolb is co-author of Her Place at the Table: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success (Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2004) and of The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas That Determine Bargaining Success (Simon & Schuster, 2000). That book was named by Harvard Business Review as one of the top ten business books of 2000. It also received the “Best Book” award from the International Association of Conflict Management and has been published in paperback under the title, Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas of Bargaining.
Deborah Kolb, A Thought Leader in the Field of Negotiation
She is the author of The Mediators (MIT Press, 1983), an in-depth study of labor mediation, and coeditor of Hidden Conflict in Organizations: Uncovering Behind-the-Scenes Disputes (Sage, 1992), a collection of field studies about how conflicts are handled in a variety of business and nonprofit organizations.
Kolb has published a study of the practice of successful mediators, Making Talk Work: Profiles of Mediators (Jossey-Bass, 1994). She is also editor of Negotiation Eclectics: Essays in Memory of Jeffrey Z. Rubin (Program on Negotiation, 1999). She has authored more than seventy-five articles on the subjects of negotiation, conflict in organizations, and mediation, and is on the editorial boards of the Negotiation Journal and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
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.