Max Hal Bazerman (born August 14, 1955) is an author and researcher whose work focuses on negotiation, behavioral economics, and ethics. In his most recent book, Better, Not Perfect, Bazerman provides insight into how individuals can make better decisions for themselves and for the world. In their 2020 book The Power of Experiments, Bazerman and Michael Luca describe how technology companies and other organizations are increasingly relying on randomized control trials to test their ideas, generating both benefits and costs for society at large. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In 2019, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Education Bazerman received a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration Carnegie-Mellon University in 1979. Bazerman received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard University in 2000 and an honorary doctorate from the London Business School of the University of London in 2006. Career Since 2000, Bazerman has been the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has been with the school since 1998 as a visiting scholar. From 1985-2000, Bazerman was a professor at the Kellogg School of Management. Notable work “Max Bazerman has had an important impact over many years in the area of decision making in organizations," wrote the award committee that granted Bazerman the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. "Even more impactful, however, is his research on negotiations in organizations. Not only is it foundational, but coupled with the developmental aspects of instructional materials based on his research it has transformed the topic of negotiations into a near universal part of all MBA programs. The instructional approach he developed with his colleagues constitutes the basis of the vast majority of those programs. His work as a doctoral student advisor has also led to an extremely large number of important faculty at top institutions who evidence his commitment to excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service." The award committee concludes: "Max Bazerman has for several decades been the central figure and driving force behind several related domains of organizational behavior: negotiations, judgement and decision making, and more recently, behavioral ethics. That he has managed to bring the rigor