Professor Michael Wheeler teaches at the Harvard Business School’s MBA program and at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. He is the author and co-author of eleven books.
He serves on the International Steering Committee of Afghanistan Center for Dispute Resolution (Kabul). He is a member of the Advisory Councils of the Moscow-based Center for Mediation and Law and the ADR Center in Rome, as well on the Advisory Board of the Central European Review of Economics and Management.
He taught at MIT from 1981 to 1993. He was Director of Education and Research at the Lincoln Institue of Land Policy and Professor of Law at New England Law. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado and the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He has appeared extensively on public television in Boston and elsewhere.
Prof. Wheeler holds degrees from Amherst College, Boston University, and Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1969. He has been a panelist for the American Arbitration Association and has served as a mediator or arbitrator in a variety of business and regulatory disputes. He has advised corporate clients, not for profits, trade organizations, and government agencies on negotiation issues in the United States and abroad.
Some key points I learned from Prof. Wheeler:
1. Anticipate miscommunication but we have to induce constructive behavior from other people.
2. Address areas of improvement.
3. Learn the right lessons from experience.
