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Professor Emerita of Management & Organizations

Portrait of Jeanne Brett, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management
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Jeanne Brett is the DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr. Professor Emerita of Dispute Resolution and Organizations.

Professor Brett's research is in the areas of cross-cultural negotiations, the resolution of disputes, and the performance of multicultural teams.  Her current research investigates culture and negotiation strategies. She is also studying the interface between AI and negotiations. She is the author of multiple books, two award winning: Getting Disputes Resolved with William Ury and Stephen Goldberg and the single authored Negotiating Globally; journal articles, and negotiation teaching materials. Her most recent book is Searching for Trust in the Global Economy with Tyree Mitchell. She initiated Kellogg's MBA courses in negotiations in 1981 and in cross-cultural negotiations in 1994. She has received numerous career awards: the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award in Organizational Behavior; the Academy of Management Outstanding Educator Award; the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Graduate Faculty Award, and the International Association for Conflict Management Lifetime Achievement Award.

About Jeanne
Research interests
  • Cross-cultural
  • deal making
  • dispute resolution
  • mediation
  • emotions and negotiation
  • AI and negotiation
  • negotiating teams
  • trust and culture
  • influence and culture
  • status and culture
  • communication and culture
Teaching interests
  • Cross-cultural negotiation
  • negotiation
  • multicultural teams
  • PhD, 1972, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois
    AM, 1969, University of Illinois
    BA, 1967, Southern Methodist University
  • Director, Dispute Resolution Research Center, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1969-2016
    DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr. Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations, Dispute Resolution Research Center, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1989-2019
    Exchange Professor Sciences Po, L'Institut d'etudes politiques (IEP) de Paris, 2006
    Department Chair, Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1999-2001
    Visiting Professor, Keio University, Yokohama Japan, 1998
    Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, Universite de Droit, d'Economie et des Sciences d'Aix-Marseille, 1990
    Professor of Organizational Behavior, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1983-1989
    Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1976-1983
    Assistant Professor of Organizational Psychology, University of Michigan, 1975-1976
    Faculty Associate, Organizational Behavior Program, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1975-1976
    Assistant Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1972-1975
  • International Association for Conflict Management Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008
    The Clarence L. Ver Steeg Graduate Faculty Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2007
    International Association for Conflict Management Best Paper in 2005 for the Negotiation Dance: Time, Culture, and Behavioral Sequences in Negotiation by Wendy Adair & Jeanne Brett, 2007
    Academy of Management Outstanding Educator Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2003
    International Association of Conflict Management Book Award for Negotiating Globally, 2002
    Kellogg Alumni Choice Award for lasting academic contribution, Kellogg School of Management, 2001
    Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Outstanding Alumni Award, University of Illinois, 2001
    Outstanding Professor of the Year, the Managers Program, Kellogg School of Management, 1993
    David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award in Organizational Behavior, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1989
  • Editorial Board, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1973
    Editorial Board, Negotiation and Conflict Management Review, 2006
    Editorial Board, International Journal of Conflict Management, 1992
    Editorial Board, Negotiation Journal, 1989